Fume Hood Risk Mitigation Digital Conference
Original Air Date:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Join Lab Design and our experts for this free digital conference where industry leaders will share best practices for fume hood compliance, installation, and maintenance.
Lab design/build projects must prioritize safety, particularly when working with equipment like fume hoods that mitigate exposure to hazardous chemicals. Ensuring the proper installation, use, and maintenance of these essential safety devices is critical to reducing risks in the lab environment. Fume hood risk mitigation requires a comprehensive approach to incorporating these systems into the design or renovation process.
Join Lab Design on March 12, 2025, for this virtual Fume Hood Risk Mitigation event, part of the Lab Design Digital Conference series. Speakers will discuss compliance with industry standards and highlight common mistakes to avoid during the design, installation, and renovation phases to ensure that safety, efficiency, and compliance are built into your projects from the outset.
Key considerations include proper placement and airflow management, compliance with standards and regulations, chemical use and containment needs, hood selection and specifications, sustainability and energy efficiency concerns, safety protocols and emergency response systems, and more. The event will feature interactive Q&A sessions, offering attendees the chance to engage directly with experts and gain personalized advice on implementing risk mitigation strategies in their lab plans. Register for free to join live or view on demand.
The webinars in the Lab Design Digital Conference series are free to attend live and/or on demand. Select sessions will be available for AIA/HSW continuing education credit.
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Agenda
11:00am-12:00pm ET
Your Chemical Fume Hood Is On Fire: What Do You Do?
Today’s labs are facing an increasing risk of chemical fume hood fires, making it more critical than ever to be prepared. In this engaging webinar, our speakers will explore real-world incidents and offer practical strategies to prevent, mitigate, and effectively respond to these hazardous events. Join us as we dive deep into essential safety protocols, discuss the role of robust standard operating procedures (SOPs), and emphasize why thorough, ongoing training is indispensable for every lab.
We will examine common causes of chemical fume hood fires and illustrate how even a small flame can escalate into a catastrophic event. A detailed case study will reveal how a seemingly manageable fire, when mishandled, consumed an entire lab in under five minutes. By dissecting this incident, we will pinpoint critical intervention moments and offer actionable steps to avert disaster.
This webinar is designed for lab managers, safety officers, and researchers alike—anyone responsible for maintaining a safe working environment. Equip yourself with the knowledge to protect your facility, minimize costly damage, and, most importantly, safeguard human lives. Don’t miss this essential opportunity to revolutionize your lab’s fire safety practices!
Learning objectives:
Recognize the common causes of chemical fume hood fires and understand how small ignition sources can rapidly escalate into dangerous situations
Learn best practices for preventing fume hood fires, including proper chemical storage, ventilation management, and adherence to robust standard operating procedures (SOPs)
Develop skills to respond swiftly and effectively to fume hood fires, including proper fire suppression techniques, evacuation procedures, and coordination with emergency personnel
Understand the importance of continuous safety training, risk assessments, and regulatory compliance to ensure a culture of safety and preparedness in laboratory environments
This course is approved by AIA CES for 1 LU/HSW credit
Speaker
Chip Albright
Founder and President
Fume Hood Certified
12:30-1:30pm ET
Balancing Safety, Cost, and Flexibility: A Fume Hood Integration Case Study
As laboratory demands grow, ensuring proper ventilation and air quality becomes a critical challenge. At Butler University, increasing lab usage revealed the limitations of their aging HVAC system, which struggled to provide adequate air changes and containment for hazardous emissions. Faced with the costly prospect of a major HVAC upgrade, the university sought an alternative solution—integrating filtered fume hoods.
In this insightful webinar, Stacy O’Reilly, PhD, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Butler University, shares her firsthand experience implementing filtered fume hoods. She discusses the challenges her department faced, the key questions they asked when evaluating ventilation solutions, and how these fume hoods provided a cost-effective, flexible, and energy-efficient alternative for her laboratory.
Learning objectives:
Evaluate different ventilation options for lab safety
Examine key considerations for implementing fume hoods such as chemical compatibility, filter validation, regulatory compliance, and maintenance requirements
Discover strategies for future-proofing laboratory design
Identify critical questions to ask when selecting ventilation solutions for lab renovations
This course is approved by AIA CES for 1 LU/HSW credit
Speaker
Stacy O’Reilly, PhD
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Butler University
2:00-3:00pm ET
Ask Me Anything–Fume Hood Risk Mitigation with a Lab Design Expert
Ensuring fume hoods are properly designed, installed, and maintained is essential for lab safety and regulatory compliance. This interactive session offers architects, engineers, lab managers and lab end users, and facility planners the opportunity to ask real-world questions about fume hood safety, compliance, and performance in new lab builds, renovations, and system optimizations.
Gain expert insights into proper fume hood placement, airflow management, compliance pitfalls, sustainability strategies, and emergency response planning. Whether you're tackling a full-scale lab design, making targeted upgrades, or improving existing safety measures, this AMA will provide practical guidance to help you avoid common mistakes and implement best practices. Bring your questions and get direct answers from an industry expert!
Learning objectives:
Understand the critical role of fume hoods in protecting lab personnel from hazardous chemical exposure and ensuring compliance with safety regulations
Learn best practices for integrating fume hoods into lab layouts to maintain proper containment, minimize turbulence, and enhance overall indoor air quality for a safer working environment
Recognize common compliance pitfalls in new lab builds and renovations, and explore strategies to meet regulatory standards while reducing operational and liability risks
Discover how to balance energy efficiency with safety by selecting the right fume hood technologies and ventilation strategies while also planning for emergency scenarios, such as power failures or containment breaches
This course is approved by AIA CES for 1 LU/HSW credit
Speaker
Coryne Casey
Associate Principal
ZGF