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EHS appreciates the support for safe work environments on campus by the medal winners.

With the Summer Olympics in Rio this month, Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) will be presenting laboratories with a “medal” certificate based on their laboratory safety assessment from EHS lab inspections

Blossom Damania, Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and incoming Vice Dean of Research at the UNC School of Medicine, discusses Carolina’s role in Zika research.

The State of North Carolina has designated May and June as a special time to identify and recognize the importance of having a safe workplace.

To help strengthen the culture of safety at university labs and research centers, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has recently published, “A Guide to Implementing a Safety Culture in Our Universities.”  This Guide is a roadmap for a university-wide effort to strengthen research safety, which must be…