Lab/Office Numbers
The distance in inches that is required to be clear from an electrical panel.
What is 36 inches?
The EAP refers to the procedures put in place to address unusual and/or dangerous occurrences in the workplace.
What is an Emergency Action Plan?
The skull and crossbones symbol represents this type of hazard in a lab.
What is Acute Toxicity?
These are the four routes of exposure.
What is inhalation, absorption, ingestion, and injection?
This Ascidian employee is your Emergency Coordinator.
Who is John?
The clearance distance in inches from the ceiling to items in the lab.
What is 18 inches?
This location holds our chemical and biological waste in the basement until picked up by CleanEarth (hint: MAA)
What is the Main Accumulation Area?
This symbol depicting a dead fish and a tree represents this type of hazard.
What is the environmental hazard symbol?
You can find all biological and chemical spill kits in these locations.
Where is under the sinks?
The amount of emergency exits between the office and lab.
What is 4?
If there is a skin or eye exposure, flush the affected area with water for at least this many minutes.
What is 15?
The legal limit for exposure of an employee to a chemical substance or physical agent. Also known as the PEL.
What is the Permissible Exposure Limit?
An exclamation point pictogram means this.
What is irritant?
_____________ is the name of the company that we use for biowaste.
What is Stericycle?
The point in which you should go to the secondary assembly point.
What is when the first assembly point is blocked or unsafe?
The amount of landline phones that are in the lab.
What is 5?
This institution provides review and oversight of research that involves the use of biological agents and is referred to as the IBC.
What is the Institutional Biosafety Committee?
This hazard symbol shows a test tube pouring liquid on to a hand.
What is the Corrosive Hazard Symbol?
Make sure to bring all ethanol bottles here at the end of the day.
What is the flammable cabinet?
You can fit this many people into an elevator during a fire alarm evacuation.
What is 0? (don't take the elevator)
The number of red bags required to line a biowaste box.
What is 2?
This administration ensures safe and healthy working conditions and is commonly referred to as OSHA.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health administration?
This symbol depicts a silhouette of a gas cylinder.
What is the compressed gas symbol?
The amount of times you are authorized to reuse nitrile gloves in the lab.
What is 0? (don't reuse gloves)
The maximum distance you can wander off to after evacuating outside during an emergency.
What is none? (Do not wander off)