You must sign the session roster sheets for this training to be recorded in Peoplesoft the sheets ar

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You must sign the session roster sheets for this
training to be recorded in Peoplesoft (the sheets
areavailable as you enter. Sign at your name.)
If you are not on the list, write your name
LEGIBLY at the end of the roster. I need your
employee ID number too.

• CBS Refresher Safety Training

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• Thanks to Dawn Errede, DEHS, for many of the
  slides.

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Regulators visiting more frequently

• Ramsey and Hennepin County (MnPCA) for hazwaste
  compliance
• OSHA for personnel safety compliance
• Thanks to Dawn Errede, DEHS, for many of the
  slides

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Common and continuing problems
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House-keeping

• Food and/or drink prohibited from all
  laboratories
• Eating areas separated from labs with full walls
  and closing doors.

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Proper Attire

• Cover exposed skin long pants, labcoats, shoes
• No shorts or sandals
• Appropriate use of safety glasses/goggles/gloves

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Label All Containers

• Make sure labels are readable.

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Hazardous waste

• Caps
• Labels
• Secondary containment
• Fines possible for each violation totalling
  hundreds of for each bottle (OUCH!)

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Keep Chemicals out of Sewer

• Do not pour any chemicals into sinks, or
  otherwise allow chemicals to enter the sewer
  (rotovaps etc.)

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Other continuing problems

• Sharps improperly disposed
• Eyewashes, showers, fire extinguishers blocked
  (even by carts)
• Rooms containing radioisotopes open
• Improperly stored chemicals and waste
• Lack of documentation of training
• Improper labeling of chemicals and wastes
• Containers not closed (cant have a funnel in a
  waste container...)

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Some new problems this year
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Hazardous Gases

• All gases with a health hazard rating of 3 or 4
  must be stored and used in a ventilated enclosure
• BF3 release, potential HF exposure in laboratory.

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Chemical Storage Cabinets

• Two spills PWB and Smith
• Shelves and/or clips an issue in both situations

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Chemical Storage Cabinets

• PWB 6 4-L bottles (hexane, ethyl acetate,
  chloroform)
• Shelves not flush lots of side to side movement
• Clips pulled straight

• Ensure clips are installed in parallel plane.
• Ensure shelves fit correctly.
• Do not overload shelves.
• Balance shelves when loading.

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Chemical Storage Cabinets

• Smith methanol and isopropyl
• Clips could rotate
• Shelves overlapped caps of bottles must tip to
  remove from cabinet

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Chemical Storage Cabinets

• Justrite cabinets with shelves that are less
  likely to collapse
• Be sure to leave enough room so bottles do not
  have to be tipped to remove or store.

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Non-chemical emergency situations

• Coordinate campus Employee passed out
  (eventually diagnosed as hypoglycemia)
• What would you do?
• Twin Cities campus Employee badly cut and
  bleeding
• What would you do?

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Other information
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Know where to find our Laboratory Safety Plan
(Chemical Hygiene Plan)http//www.cbs.umn.edu/m
ain/instr_labs/safety/ ORhttp//www.dehs.umn.edu/
safety/lsp/
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And know what is in it.http//www.dehs.umn.edu
/safety/lsp/
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Update your department contact list.

• Principal Investigators
• Room numbers
• Description of work done in those rooms (e.g.,
  enzyme assays using radioactive isotopes, gel
  electrophoresis, use of neurotoxin acrylamide,
  molecular biology lab using chemicals,
  radioisotopes, and transgenic worms, sodium azide
  for preserving spores.)

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Lab Close-Outs
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Closeout Checklist
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Checklist cont.
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Closeouts questions??
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Conclusions
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Emergencies

• If an emergency, call 911
• Emergency responders help assess the need for
  medical assistance and/or building clean-up.
• Report non-emergency spills or accidents to
  administrators (during working hours) or 911
  (after hours)
• Use the buddy system avoid working alone,
  especially evenings and weekends.
• Undergraduates PROHIBITED from working alone with
  hazardous materials at any time.

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Training Documentation

• Be sure you have signed-in for this refresher
  training session
• Check your personal training history at
  http//hrss.umn.edu/training_menu.html

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Training people in your lab

• Initial training I recommend new employees go
  through the online training at http//www.dehs.umn
  .edu/training/labsafety/
• Refresher training (e.g., in lab meetings)
• On the CBS web These slides and last years
  slides, last years handout (Resources for
  Faculty and Staff
• --gt Teaching and Learning --gt Laboratory
  Safety and Hazardous Waste Training)
• Documentation Peoplesoft possible (wait for
  e-mail from me opening a new session to register
  for) or paper documentation (turn into your
  department office)

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Homework

• Update your departments contact list
• Remember to do your annual lab audits
• Check to be sure your protocols cover safety
  hazards and mitigation plans.
• Getting rusty? You might consider re-doing the
  initial training online at
• http//www.dehs.umn.edu/training/labsafety/
• Last years training handout is still on the CBS
  web (Resources for Faculty and Staff --gt Teaching
  and Learning --gt Laboratory Safety and Hazardous
  Waste Training)