Environment, Health & Safety factsheets cover all areas of safety for UCLA. Factsheets are available for download and should be used as guidelines in assisting with specific safety concerns. For more in-depth rules, guides and "how-to" documents, please visit the page for each specialty.
Cal/OSHA Factsheets
Shop Safety
- Hazard Communication and Chemical Safety
- Ladder Safety (English) (Spanish)
- Lockout Tagout (English) (Spanish)
- Machine Guarding
- Machine Safety
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (English) (Spanish)
- Pre-hotwork checklist
- Power and Hand Tools
Worker Safety Factsheets
- Automated Retractable Bollards
- Compressed Gas Cylinders
- Confined Space (English) (Spanish)
- Fire Safety
- Hot Work
- Housekeeping: Slips, Trips and Falls
- Incident Investigation
- Indoor Heat Illness Prevention
- Injury & Illness Prevention Program (IIPP)
- Job Hazard Analysis (JHA)
- Ladder Safety
- Lockout/Tagout Fact Sheet
- Office Inspection (English) (Spanish)
- Outdoor Heat Illness Prevention
- Reporting Workplace Injuries (English) (Spanish)
- Slip Resistant Shoe Program (SRF) (English) (Spanish)
- Utility Knife Safety
- Chemical Storage and Segregation
- Compressed Gas Cylinders
- Cryogenic Vial Storage Safety
- Cryostat General Safety
- Emergency Shower and Eyewash Stations
- Ethidium Bromide
- Formaldehyde Use
- Generally Licensed Radioactive Materials
- Glass Waste Guidelines
- Laboratory PI Responsibilities
- Lab Attire - Natural Fiber Clothing
- Particularly Hazardous Substances
- Prenatal Radiation Exposure Guidelines
- Waste Anesthetic Gas
- UC Minors in Labs & Shops Policy Impacts Fact Sheet
- Biological Safety Cabinets Selection, Installation & Maintenance
- Biosafety Spill Kit: What goes in it?
- Bloodborne Pathogen or HIV Exposure Emergency Response Information
- California Compliant Medical Waste Bags
- Cal/OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard
- Examples of Sharps Protection
- Injury, Incident and/or Exposure Reporting
- Medical Waste Self-Check
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Prion Research Guidance
- Sharps Protection for Researchers
- Select Toxins
- Sodium Hypochlorite (Bleach) Chemical Incompatibility
- Sterile Technique
Health Alerts
Isotope guides:
Waste Guides:
- Animal Waste Management
- Liquid Scintillation Waste Procedures
- Solid Radioactive Waste Procedures
- Special Radioactive Waste Procedures
- Ultima Gold LSC Cocktail (Perkin Elmer)
General information and postings: