If you are just joining our HomeLab Community, there are some Environmental, Health, and Safety requirements that all Fellow Companies must meet to operate within Federal, State and Local regulations. These regulations are there to protect workers, general public, and the environment around us.
While it may be an exhaustive list of items to do, we have made every effort to make it as efficient as possible for your Fellow Company by providing the resources to meet those regulatory requirements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to send an email to ehs@homelab.com or contact by phone at +1 (833) 452-2677 x600. Here is a list of basic requirements that every company is required to meet
Every Fellows Company, whether in our Accelerator or Residential programs, is required to have permits to ensure that they are operating in a safe and responsible manner with its Fellows, the Community, and the environment. The permit requirements are based on the hazards your Fellows work with, which may or may not fall under the scope of LabFellows HomeLab EH&S permits provided with your Fellowship’s EH&S Service Support level.
HomeLab requires all Fellow Companies to have or be in process of getting all permits for their Fellow Company within 30 days of starting wetlab work. Permits should be saved to your LabFellows Cloud workspace under Admin Dashboard > Documents > EHS Permits folder.
In order to find out which permit is required for your Fellow Company, please contact our EH&S Team directly.
Like permits to operate, Fellow Companies are required to have a set of plans to ensure that their Fellows know what to do when they are injured on the job, how to safely handle chemicals, potentially infectious materials.
HomeLab has developed and provides umbrella plan templates that cover the most basic functions of a life sciences research and development laboratory. It is the responsibility of each Fellow Company to customize and implement these plans. And to engage our EH&S Team for more advanced regulatory and compliance needs, such as GXP or HIPPA.
You can find details and plan templates here.
Training is an integral part of a Fellow Company’s Environmental, Health, & Safety Program. It covers the fundamentals knowledge that every Fellow need know in order to perform their job safely and within regulatory compliance.
HomeLab has created a series of core, online EH&S training for all member companies. These training are required for everyone who works in the lab or supervises anyone who works in the lab. Understand that these trainings are only applicable to working at HomeLab facilities. However, it is still the Fellow Company’s responsibility to ensure their Fellows complete trainings and work with HomeLab EH&S Team to customize to their own job-specific hazards.
All the training and their description can be found here.
If you have any questions, please feel free to send an email to
By regulations, Federal, State and Local, employers are required to establish a set of safety programs and plans to address hazards that their employees encounter. To assist our Fellow Companies with this compliance, we’ve created a set of critical EH&S startup programs and plans that meet the minimum requirements in accordance to regulations.
In order for you to adopt these as your company specific plans, you must do the following steps:
View copies of our umbrella EHS programs here: HomeLab EHS - Plans and Programs.
The document(s) contain verbiage to cover both LabFellows, Fellow Companies and their Fellows within our HomeLab locations.
Review any Fellow Company specific practices or SOP link(s) that may be applicable sections at the end of the document.
Submit any applicable Fellow Company specific practices or SOP link(s) to ehs@homelab.com for review.
If any concerns, our HomeLab EHS team will reach out to your Primary Fellow.
A company representative (Primary Fellow, CEO, and/or the Safety Coordinator) will sign the document via HelloSign to certify understanding and implementation of the program. (if applicable)
Finally, save signed copy to your Fellow Company’s specific EHS folder in LabFellows Cloud (Admin Dashboard > Documents > EHS Plans and Programs folder.
The IIPP, EAP, and FPP are basic written workplace safety programs. Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations (T8CCR) section 3203, 3220, and 3221 requires every employer to develop and implement effective IIPP, EAP, and FPP plans, respectively. Effective IIPP, EAP, and FPP programs improve the safety and health in your workspace and reduces costs by good management and employee involvement.
OSHA’s Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals in Laboratories standard (29 CFR 1910.1450), referred to as the Laboratory standard, specifies the mandatory requirements of a Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP) to protect laboratory workers from harm due to hazardous chemicals. The CHP is a written program stating the policies, procedures and responsibilities that protect workers from the health hazards associated with the hazardous chemicals used in that particular workplace.
The Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP) is a basic written workplace safety program. Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations (T8CCR) section 3203, requires every employer to develop and implement an effective IIPP. An effective IIPP improves the safety and health in your workplace and reduces costs by good management and employee involvement.
Below are required Environmental, Health, & Safety Training courses for everyone who works at HomeLab locations. These courses are intended to meet minimum regulatory standards. It is the responsibility of the Fellow Companies to ensure all their staff complete HomeLab umbrella trainings as well as any additional task and process specific training.
These training are required for all Fellows within 30 days of their start date at HomeLab:
Course Description: Required for everyone who works at Homelab. The course will go over basic life safety topics such as Hazard Communication (Global Harmonization System), Evacuations, Incident Reporting procedures and HomeLab Policy and Procedures.
Course Description: Required for everyone who works at HomeLab. Refresher training on an annual basis required for everyone who will work in the laboratory at HomeLab. Course will include chemical safety, spill response, waste disposal as well as HomeLab policies and procedures for working in the laboratory.
Course Description: Required for everyone who works at HomeLab. Refresher training on an annual basis required for everyone who works with biological material at HomeLab. This course will go over the biological hazards of concern, basic requirements of the exposure control plan, exposure response and universal precaution.
Other advanced trainings such as Aerosol Transmissible Disease (ATD) trainings may be available at an additional cost. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact ehs@homelab.com.
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Founded in 2014, we started by offering monthly memberships (Fellowships) to shared wet-lab space and equipment to entrepreneurial academics and small startup teams in our community. Over time, our members began to outgrow this model… and so as they evolved, we evolved:
Our Fellows didn’t need to be “graduated” – they needed more options for dedicated space to grow their teams.
Our Fellows weren’t pining for another “science of beer” event – they needed more effective and efficient connections to mentors and introductions to capital partners that translated into better development timelines and investor checks.
Our Fellows were not lacking common advice on how to incorporate their companies or file patents – they needed uncommon tips and tricks to build better biotechs.
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