Health and Safety
Occupational Hygiene
MSDS
HEPA-filtered Hoods and Cabinets
Laboratory Design

CUHK and Hong Kong Health, Safety and Environment Web Sites

CUHK Smokefree Campus
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/uhs/smokefree/index_eng.html

Committee on Health Promotion and Protection
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/health_promote_protect/index.html

University Steering Committee on Environment
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/usce/

Committee on Safety
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/committee_safety/

Advisory Committee on Health Promotion and Protection
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/healthpromotion/

University Health Service (UHS)
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/uhs/

Safety Legislation, the Bilingual Laws Information System BLIS
   Cap. 509 Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance
    Cap. 59 Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance
    Cap. 303 Radiation Ordinance
    Cap. 295 Dangerous Goods Ordinance
    Cap. 354 Waste Disposal Ordinance
    Cap. 406 Electricity Ordinance
    Cap. 145 Control of Chemicals Ordinance

Occupational Safety & Health Council (HongKong) OSHC (HK)
Labour Department
Hong Kong Institute of Occupational & Environmental Hygiene HKIOEH
Hong Kong Occupational Safety and Health Association HKOSHA
Radiation Health Unit, Department of Health
HKUST Safety and Environmental Protection Office SEPO

Health and Safety

  Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
  American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc.
  American Society of Safety Engineers ASSE (US)
    Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety CCOHS (Cad)
  Centers For Disease Control And Prevention CDC
  Duke University Occupational & Environmental Safety Office OESO, DU
  Environmental Health & Safety, University of Minnesota

  Health and Safety Executive (UK) HSE
  International Agency for Research on Cancer, France IARC
  ILO Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety ILO
  CISDOC bibliographic database on OSH ILO
  Michigan State University MSU Office of Radiation, Chemical & Biological Safety ORCBS , Selection and Usage of Chemically Resistant Gloves
  National Institutes of Health NIH
  National Institute For Occupational Safety And Health NIOSH
  National Safety Council NSC
  Occupational Health and Safety Administration (USA) OSHA
  Occupational Health & Safety Sites (OHS)
  Pan American Health Organization PAHO
  Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services DHHS
  University of Kansas School of Allied Health SAH
  World Health Organization WHO
 

Occupational Hygiene

 American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists ACGIH
 American Industrial Hygiene Association AIHA(US)
 Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists AIOH
 US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine USACHPPM
 British Occupational Hygiene Society BOHS
 Ergonomics program, University of Virginia
University of London Ergonomics and Human Computer Interaction ERGOHCI

MSDS

  MSDS for Infectious Substances
  Chemwatch
 MSDS for Gases

Labconco: Personnel & Product Protection: A Guide to Biosafety Enclosures PDF Format,
(We make no comments about the company's pruducts, but here is a very useful document in .pdf format abailable online which discusses ther various types of HEPA-filtered hoods and cabinets.)

        Laboratory Design Guidelines, NIH

       http://www2.umdnj.edu/eohssweb/aiha/technical/labdesign.htm (AIHA)

       http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EHS/prod/mainrencon/Labdesign.html The Stanford Laboratory Standard & Design Guide

Online Biosafety Books

 
  Biosafety in Microbiological & Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/biosfty/bmbl4/bmbl4toc.htm
  Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules http://www4.od.nih.gov/oba/rac/guidelines/guidelines.html
 

On-line tutorials on Radiation safety
Unsealed sources: http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/rss/ram/tutorial/index.htm
Analytical X-ray Safety: http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/rss/xray/xrayintro.htm
laser safety: http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/rss/laser/tutorial/tutorial.html