Welcome to Lab & Research Safety Advocacy at Johns Hopkins University!

Occupational and Environmental Safety (OES), a division of Health Safety and Environment (HSE) supports safe research in the form of leadership, consultation, education, risk analysis, technical services, and more. Find more information on biosafety, chemical safety, occupational and environmental safety, radiation safety, and research lab safety on the OES website.

New to JHU?

Are you a researcher on campus looking to practice good techniques in your lab? For now, we recommend that at a minimum, you review the information in the online Introduction to Laboratory Safety course, available on the JHU myLearning portal. This is accessible from your my.jhu.edu page, on the Education tab.

First-year graduate students should take EN500.601 — Research Laboratory Safety. This 1-credit course is offered in both the Fall and Spring semesters. This class covers lab safety information and its application to real-world lab experiments. It is open to students from both the School of Engineering and the School of Arts & Sciences.