Top Lab Tests for Environmental Health and Safety Teams
Universities, schools, and large organizations rely on Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) teams to keep buildings safe, compliant, and operational. From aging infrastructure to renovation projects and routine monitoring, environmental testing is a critical part of protecting occupants and maintaining trust.
SimpleLab gives EHS and Facilities teams a centralized, reliable way to manage environmental testing across multiple campuses and building portfolios, without juggling vendors, spreadsheets, or disconnected reports.
Table of Contents
- Comprehensive Testing for Safer Buildings
- How SimpleLab Supports EHS & Facilities Operations
- Popular Test Kits for EHS & Facilities Teams
- The Bottom Line: One Platform for Safer Facilities
Comprehensive Testing for Safer Buildings
EHS and Facilities teams are responsible for a wide range of environmental risks, often across hundreds of rooms and structures. Issues like lead, mold, asbestos, and waterborne pathogens require fast, reliable data to guide decisions and demonstrate compliance.
Whether you’re managing residence halls, laboratories, offices, or public facilities, SimpleLab helps keep environmental testing organized and actionable.
How SimpleLab Supports EHS & Facilities Operations
SimpleLab is designed to remove friction from environmental testing workflows.
One Platform for Campus-Wide Testing
Order, track, and review results for water, surface, and materials testing across your entire footprint, without managing multiple vendors or systems.
High Quality Laboratory Results
All laboratories in the SimpleLab network are certified by either national or state bodies to the established ISO 17025 quality standard for analytical laboratories, delivering clear results suitable for compliance documentation, internal reporting, and decision-making.
We Handle the Logistics
Sampling supplies, prepaid shipping, and lab coordination are built in. Your team collects the sample, we handle the rest.
Fast Support When It Matters
For time-sensitive situations, SimpleLab can expedite kits and lab testing to support emergency response and faster resolution.
Popular Test Kits for for EHS & Facilities Teams
These tests help teams proactively manage environmental risks across buildings, utilities, and shared spaces.
Legionella pneumophila Serotype Water Test
What is it?
Targeted testing for Legionella pneumophila with serotype analysis in one water sample.
Why this test?
Essential for monitoring complex campus water systems, this test supports proactive risk management in residence halls, laboratories, and large facilities, helping reduce outbreak risk and maintain compliance.
Lead Paint Chip Test
What is it?
Targeted analysis of lead paint chips from one location.
Why this kit?
Often used during renovation and maintenance planning in older buildings, this test helps facilities teams identify hazards before materials are disturbed, protecting occupants and workers.
Mold & Fungus Surface Tape Test
What is it?
Analysis of fungal spores and types from a tape-lift sample collected on indoor surfaces.
Why this kit?
Ideal for post-renovation checks, water intrusion investigations, and indoor air quality assessments in classrooms, offices, and residence halls.
Basic Asbestos Materials Test
What is it?
Targeted asbestos analysis by polarized light microscopy (PLM) for one bulk building material sample.
Why this kit?
Critical for renovation, demolition, and compliance planning, this test identifies all six regulated asbestos types to support safe project execution and regulatory adherence.
The Bottom Line: One Platform for Research and Campus Safety
EHS and Facilities teams need environmental testing that is reliable, fast, and easy to manage at scale. SimpleLab delivers a centralized platform that simplifies logistics, centralizes data, and provides defensible results—so teams can act with confidence.
From routine monitoring to urgent response, SimpleLab helps facilities teams protect buildings, occupants, and institutional reputation.
Safer facilities through simplified testing. That’s SimpleLab.
The SimpleLab Standard
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Proven Reliability: SimpleLab partners with North America's leading analytical institutions—including Eurofins, Pace Analytical, SGS, and Microbac—each with their own rigorous quality control protocols to ensure top-tier accuracy. Our certified labs are located across all 50 states, making logistics a breeze.
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Simplified Sampling: Every kit includes professional-grade materials, clear instructions, automated chain of custody, and free return shipping— making accurate testing effortless.
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Seamless Experience: We combine human support with automated logistics to help make complex lab analyses accessible to all. From our user interface to our lab reports, we ensure a time-saving, frustration-free process.
Johnny Pujol, CEO of SimpleLab, is devoted to advancing environmental laboratory logistics, ensuring each stage—from sample collection to results—is clear, easy, and insightful. Holding a Master's in Engineering from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor's in Economics from Boston University, Johnny brings a unique blend of technical expertise and business insight to his role. Outside of SimpleLab, you can find him training for Pentathlons or writing spy fiction.
About SimpleLab
SimpleLab combines world-class laboratory science with customer service to ensure testing your environment is simple, fast and factual. Everything we do is driven by data and supported by a team of experts ready to answer your questions.
