Lab Safety
The establishment of a separate accounting line for safety and health related purchases is essential. This allows you to clearly track monies expended for this purpose.
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The RoHS Directive stands for the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. This Directive bans the placing on the EU market of new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants.
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While the Lab Standard does not require specific work practices for individual experiments, it does stipulate that employers generate a list of recognized good practices which lab workers are expected to follow,
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Good housekeeping is one of the foundations of good safety practice.
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The use of warning signs to designate particular hazards is not just a good idea it's the law.
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One school accumulated 20 five-pound bottles of mercury. Each year they ordered from the same list used the year before! Not a good idea.
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The proper storage of chemicals has become a focal point of laboratory safety. We need to keep chemicals which are incompatible separated some reasonable distance from each other.
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In an emergency, you tend to forget even the most common things. Having emergency phone numbers for the fire, police, and local ambulance by every phone is a very important reminder.
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It's important to develop plans and conduct drills for dealing with emergencies such as fire, explosion, poisoning, chemical spill, vapor release, and personal contamination.
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Prohibiting the storage of food in chemical refrigerators is one of the basic rules of good practice.
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The practice of forbidding smoking, eating, and drinking in laboratories is one of the basic good hygiene practices.
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There seems to be a special law of nature that leads to the accumulation of chemicals in laboratories.
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