Laboratory Operations

Duration: 0.50 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video

This interactive course on Electrical Safety in the Laboratory emphasizes the need for safety when using electricity, and discusses how to reduce the potential for accidents involving electrical shock, fire and explosions. Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text and colorful graphics, this course provides the most cost-effective safety and regulatory compliance training available today. The course is divided into a number of logical sections so information is easily understood and retained.

Duration: 0.50 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video

This interactive course on Flammables and Explosives in the Laboratory discusses the nature of flammable and explosive materials, as well as hazards associated with their use. It also reviews the proper handling procedures and personal protective equipment that should be used when working with these substances. Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text and colorful graphics, this course provides the most cost-effective safety and regulatory compliance training available today. The course is divided into a number of logical sections so information is easily understood and retained.

Duration: 0.50 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video

This interactive course on GHS Safety Data Sheets in the Laboratory reviews the composition of GHS Safety Data Sheets, the information that’s contained in each section and how SDS’s are different from Material Safety Data Sheets. Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text and colorful graphics, this course provides the most cost-effective safety and regulatory compliance training available today. The course is divided into a number of logical sections so information is easily understood and retained.

Duration: 0.50 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video

This interactive course on Handling Compressed Gas Cylinders in the Laboratory examines how gas cylinders work, the hazards that are associated with them and the need for caution when using or storing a cylinder. Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text and colorful graphics, this course provides the most cost-effective safety and regulatory compliance training available today. The course is divided into a number of logical sections so information is easily understood and retained.

Duration: 0.50 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video

This interactive course on Laboratory Ergonomics discusses the need to set up work areas correctly, as well as how to minimize the strain of using laboratory equipment, tools and instruments. Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text and colorful graphics, this course provides the most cost-effective safety and regulatory compliance training available today. The course is divided into a number of logical sections so information is easily understood and retained.

Duration: 0.50 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video

The Laboratory Hoods course emphasizes how to properly use laboratory hoods, how to test them to ensure correct functioning and how hoods can protect an experiment, the facility and the employee. Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text and colorful graphics, this course provides the most cost-effective safety and regulatory compliance training available today. The course is divided into a number of logical sections so information is easily understood and retained.

Duration: 0.50 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video

This Interactive course on Orientation to Laboratory Safety shows both new employees and seasoned veterans the importance of safety in the laboratory as well as reviews the OSHA regulations and good safety practices that apply to the laboratory environment. Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text and colorful graphics, this course provides the most cost-effective safety and regulatory compliance training available today. The course is divided into a number of logical sections so information is easily understood and retained.

Duration: 0.50 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video

This interactive course on The OSHA Formaldehyde Standard provides training that is required by this standard, and focuses on the rules and procedures that the standard establishes for working with this potentially dangerous chemical. Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text and colorful graphics, this course provides the most cost-effective safety and regulatory compliance training available today. The course is divided into a number of logical sections so information is easily understood and retained.

Duration: 0.50 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video

This interactive course on Planning for Laboratory Emergencies discusses how to minimize damage and prevent injuries if an emergency should occur. Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text and colorful graphics, this course provides the most cost-effective safety and regulatory compliance training available today. The course is divided into a number of logical sections so information is easily understood and retained.

Duration: 0.50 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video

This interactive course on Preventing Contamination in the Laboratory emphasizes the need to recognize situations that could lead to contamination, and discusses what can be done to prevent contamination from occurring. Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text and colorful graphics, this course provides the most cost-effective safety and regulatory compliance training available today. The course is divided into a number of logical sections so information is easily understood and retained.

Duration: 0.50 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video

This interactive course on Safe Handling of Laboratory Glassware discusses the nature of various types of glassware, and the problems it can cause as well as the need for employees to use and maintain laboratory glassware safely. Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text and colorful graphics, this course provides the most cost-effective safety and regulatory compliance training available today. The course is divided into a number of logical sections so information is easily understood and retained.

Duration: 0.50 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video

This interactive course on Safety Showers and Eye Washes in the Laboratory reviews the correct ways to use this equipment, and emphasizes the need for quick action after a chemical splash or spill. Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text and colorful graphics, this course provides the most cost-effective safety and regulatory compliance training available today. The course is divided into a number of logical sections so information is easily understood and retained.

Duration: 1.00 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

This course provides laboratory participants with basic information about the responsibilities and duties of a lab technician. After completing this course, participants should be able to describe, in general terms, what lab technicians do and how they perform various functions. The course also covers safety hazards related to lab work and explains how lab technicians are protected from them. In addition, the course introduces the use of quality control in laboratories and shows how quality control affects lab operations.

Learning Objectives

• Describe general types of lab analyses.
• Describe typical lab technician responsibilities.
• Describe types of mathematical calculations that are commonly performed by lab technicians.
• Describe scientific principles that can be used to determine physical properties of lab samples.
• Describe chemical and equipment hazards related to lab work.
• Describe personal protective gear and emergency equipment that may be used in a lab.
• Describe the general content of lab emergency plans and procedures.
  State the goal of quality control in a laboratory.
• Describe how quality control affects operations in a laboratory.

Duration: 1.00 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

This course covers the nature of various laboratory hazards and the precautions and safety procedures technicians must practice to protect themselves while working in the laboratory environment. Specifically, this course looks at the hazards presented by chemicals, equipment, and microorganisms. Protective clothing and equipment as well as safe work procedures for preventing exposure and contamination are described. Practical information on detecting and treating chemical exposures and properly dealing with emergencies is also given. Housekeeping responsibilities and personal hygiene are presented as ways of promoting personal safety.

Learning Objectives

• Describe chemical hazards that may be found in a laboratory.
• Describe equipment hazards that may be found in a laboratory.
• Describe microbiological hazards that may be found in a laboratory.
• Describe how various types of protective clothing and equipment can protect lab workers from exposure and help prevent contamination.
• Describe some ways that chemical exposures can occur.
• Describe how chemical exposures can be detected.
• Describe basic treatment for chemical exposures.
• Describe equipment that is typically available in a lab for responding to emergencies.
• Describe the purpose and content of typical lab emergency procedures.
• Describe information that is typically covered in lab safety training.
• Describe some examples of housekeeping rules that are necessary to maintain personal safety.
• Describe some examples of good personal hygiene that can reduce the chances of chemical contamination and exposure.

Duration: 1.00 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

This course discusses how quality control and quality assurance practices apply to virtually every task that a lab technician performs. It describes the major goals and requirements associated with quality control and quality assurance, and explains how quality control and quality assurance concerns apply to routine lab tasks, to sample handling and testing, and to documentation. It also describes audit requirements for maintaining lab quality control and assurance. (Note: Quality Control and Assurance is appropriate for most industrial labs. For labs that fall under federal regulations 21 CFR 210 and 211, which refer to drug products and bulk pharmaceutical chemicals, Current Good Manufacturing Practices may be the preferred course of instruction.)

Learning Objectives

• Define the terms “quality,” “quality control,” and “quality assurance” as they apply to lab work.
• Describe the major goals and requirements associated with quality control and quality assurance.
• Describe quality control and quality assurance concerns that most directly involve lab technicians.
• Describe quality control and assurance requirements and lab technician responsibilities for standardizing solutions, calibrating lab instruments, and performing routine maintenance and housekeeping tasks in the lab.
• Describe quality control and assurance requirements and lab technician responsibilities for handling and testing samples.
• Describe quality control and assurance requirements and lab technician responsibilities for interpreting and reviewing test results.
• Describe quality control and assurance requirements and lab technician responsibilities for documentation and information management.
• Describe audit requirements for maintaining lab quality control and assurance.
• State general guidelines that lab technicians should follow when responding to an auditor’s questions.

Duration: 1.00 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

In Sample Preparation, participants are introduced to the ways samples are prepared before they are analyzed in a lab. The course begins by explaining the importance of sample preparation and of maintaining sample integrity. The course then focuses on the major tasks associated with sample preparation and describes various common sample preparation procedures.

Learning Objectives

Sample Preparation Overview

• Explain the difference between representative samples and selective samples.
• Explain why it is important to maintain sample integrity.
• Identify and describe the major tasks associated with preparing samples for analysis.

Sample Preparation Procedures, Part 1

• Describe how crushing and grinding can be performed to prepare a sample for analysis.
• Explain how crushing and grinding can introduce errors into the analysis of samples.
• Identify devices that can be used to mix a sample for analysis.
• Describe why and how a flame test may be performed.

Sample Preparation Procedures, Part 2

• Explain how samples may be dried.
• Describe three ways that samples may be filtered.
• Describe three types of distillation operations that may be used to prepare liquid samples for analysis.
• Explain how extraction may be used to remove soluble components from solid samples.

Duration: 1.00 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

Equipment and safe procedures for separating and isolating materials using various methods are covered in this course. The basic principles and operation of a simple distillation apparatus are discussed, and gravity filtration and vacuum filtration setups and procedures are demonstrated. The course also explains the basics of extraction and describes extraction equipment and procedures. Finally, the course explains and describes a crystallization procedure.

Learning Objectives

• Describe how a solvent is evaporated from a solution.
• Identify the parts and describe the basic operation of a rotary evaporator.
• Identify the parts of a simple distillation apparatus.
• Describe how simple distillation can be used to remove a solvent from a solute.
• Describe a setup and procedure for performing a simple distillation.
• Describe the operation of a fractional distillation setup.
• Describe differences between vacuum distillation and atmospheric distillation.
• Describe a setup and procedure for performing a gravity filtration.
• Describe a setup and procedure for performing a vacuum filtration.
• List the basic requirements for an extraction.
• Describe a setup and procedure for using a separator funnel to perform an extraction.
• Describe several methods that can be used to break up emulsions.
• Describe a setup and procedure for performing a crystallization.
• Describe ways that crystallization can be induced.

Duration: 1.00 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

This course provides participants with an overview of safety considerations for nearly every aspect of laboratory operation. Safety issues regarding lab design and how design features protect lab workers are discussed. The importance of ventilation and the operation of ventilating equipment (such as chemical hoods and biological safety cabinets) are also emphasized. Also detailed are safe practices and precautions associated with the handling and storage of chemicals. The course also describes various methods for cleaning up chemical spills and the procedures and regulatory concerns for disposing of chemical waste.

Learning Objectives

• Describe design features that help to provide a safe lab environment.
• Explain how general ventilation is accomplished in a lab.
• Describe the function and operation of fume hoods and list some guidelines that apply to their use.
• Describe the function and operation of biological safety cabinets.
• Describe safe practices associated with the storage of various chemicals in a lab.
• Describe methods for cleaning up small to moderate chemical spills and disposing of contaminated waste.
• Describe safety and regulatory concerns associated with the disposal of various forms of chemical waste.

Duration: 1.00 Hrs

Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady

This course presents material related to weighing and measuring techniques commonly performed in laboratories. It begins by describing the operation of two types of instruments used to make mass measurements: mechanical and electronic balances. Then the techniques of reading various volumetric measuring devices (including graduated cylinders, pipettes, and burettes) are demonstrated. Next, the course presents demonstrations of how to make linear measurements using calipers and a measuring microscope. The course concludes with a segment on temperature measurements that describes the techniques used to read alcohol and mercury thermometers and to check the accuracy of liquid-filled thermometers.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the difference between mass and weight.
• Explain the physical principles behind the operation of a typical mechanical balance.
  Describe how a typical electronic balance operates.
• List factors that can affect the accuracy of a mass measurement.
• Explain in general how volumetric measuring devices are read.
• Describe or demonstrate how to use a volumetric flask, a graduated cylinder, a pipette, a burette, and a syringe.
• Explain how calipers can be used to make linear measurements.
• Explain how a measuring microscope can be used to make linear measurements.
• Convert temperature readings between the following scales: Fahrenheit, Celsius (centigrade), and Kelvin.
• Explain how alcohol thermometers and mercury thermometers are read.
• Explain how to check the accuracy of a liquid-filled thermometer.