Tri-Color: The De Facto Standard For Dynamic Containment Testing

Tri-Color

WHEN SAFETY IS VISIBLE, SAFETY IS UNDENIABLE

Tri-Color: The De Facto Standard for Dynamic Containment Testing introduces a breakthrough that makes airflow visible. Using haze and three laser planes—blue for airflow, red for turbulence, and green for containment— Tri-Color turns complex science into a simple, visual story anyone can understand.

Drawing on four decades of experience, engineer and industry leader Chip Albright explains how Tri-Color evolved from early experiments into a trusted global protocol. More than a test, Tri-Color is a teaching tool, a diagnostic tool, and a movement—one that shifts laboratory safety from compliance to prevention.

Clear, repeatable, and undeniable, Tri-Color is rapidly becoming the benchmark for fume hood performance—helping ensure every laboratory worker goes home safe.

Meet the Author

Chip Albright has spent four decades redefining laboratory safety. Starting at Kewaunee Scientific in the 1980s, he quickly saw fume hoods not as steel and glass, but as life-saving devices. He went on to design seven major product lines and influence global standards as Chairman of SEFA, where he helped rewrite SEFA-1: Fume Hoods.

Best known for developing Tri-Color Laser Testing, Chip turned an abstract concept—airflow containment—into something anyone could see. His workshops have trained thousands across the U.S., India, and China, where watching airflow illuminated in red, green, and blue changed how professionals understood safety. 

Through his company, Fume Hood Certified LLC, Chip continues to mentor the next generation and create smarter testing tools, always driven by a simple mission: making labs safer, one fume hood at a time.