IN any work environment, employers need to consider environmental controls before ever putting an employee in personal protective equipment, such as a respirator, to protect them from dangerous ...

Certain laboratories are equipped with fume hoods for sample preparation & cleaning. When used with other equipment in the laboratory, fume hoods are charged at the lowest equipment category rate for ...

Open fume hoods in labs across campus account for thousands of dollars in wasted energy each year. Luci Keazer, senior lab engineer in Physical Facilities, is working to save those dollars, one fume ...

YOU MIGHT not realize it, but the fume hood whirring away in the corner of your lab is sucking up a lot more than chemical vapors. Fume hoods are serious energy hogs, and their operating costs take a ...

The laboratory chemical fume hood is the most common local exhaust ventilation system used in laboratories and is the primary method used to control inhalation exposures to hazardous substances. When ...