Group Resources

Stanford Chemical Safety Information

Environmental Health and Safety

General waste management guide for Stanford

List of nonhazardous wastes: If it's on this list, it can go down the drain.

Federal list of acutely hazardous wastes: If it's on this list, the container must be tagged as hazardous waste.

California list of extremely hazardous wastes: If it's on this list, the container must be tagged as hazardous waste.


Chemical Inventory

ChemTracker 4


Other Chemcial Hazard and Safety Resources

Prudent Practices in the Laboratory - Handling and Disposal of Chemicals: (Also in print in Swain)

Chapter 7, "Disposal of Waste", gives guidelines for neutralizing various potentially hazardous classes of compounds. If your work includes a particularly reactive or hazardous reagent, you should consider neutralizing the excess for safety reasons.

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology

Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, Volumes 1-2 (7th Edition): Focuses on reactivity, not health hazards.

OSHA (U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration): Has health guidelines for a selected list of substances.