Glossary
Natural Sciences Manager Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential natural sciences manager terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key natural sciences manager vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in natural sciences manager training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Audit
- Formal review.
- Biosafety
- Safe handling of biological agents.
- CAPA
- Corrective and preventive action.
- Chemical hygiene plan
- Lab safety plan.
- Data integrity
- Trustworthy data.
- ELN
- Electronic lab notebook.
- GLP
- Good laboratory practice.
- Grant
- Research funding.
- LIMS
- Lab information management system.
- Method validation
- Proving a test works.
- Peer review
- Expert review.
- Principal investigator
- Lead researcher.
- QA/QC
- Quality assurance and control.
- R&D
- Research and development.
- SOP
- Standard operating procedure.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Natural Sciences Manager practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Natural Sciences Manager training.
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