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This policy protects laboratory workers from harmful exposure to methylene chloride by requiring safe practices and compliance with federal standards. Key elements include training, hazard communication, exposure monitoring, and emergency procedures. Health risks range from short-term neurological effects to long-term organ damage and cancer. The policy emphasizes a hierarchy of controls to minimize risk. Its goal is to ensure a safe research environment.

This Procedure documents how to coordinate with the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) prior to vacating a lab or moving into a different lab.

To ensure the occupational safety of our personnel working with the SARS-CoV-2 virus or clinical specimens from suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases, reasonable precautions must be taken to ensure such material is handled in a safe manner in laboratories appropriately equipped to be performing the research.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the leaders in research devoted to nanotechnology. University researchers are working with and developing novel nanomaterials between 1 and 500 nanometers (nm) in size. Currently, there is limited occupational safety information on nanoparticles and nanomaterials in the university research environment.