Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP)
Phone numbers of random people by each lab in the hallways.
What is the list of the emergency contacts?
The free eye make-up remover that requires you to use it for 15 minutes.
What is eye wash station?
When you transfer a chemical from its original container to another container - ANOTHER container needs to be labeled with the same hazardous info as the original container.
What is the secondary container?
Enthusiastic people who stay productive and self-guided in the lab; complete total weekly hours as prescribed by the contract; come to the lab with proper attire; happily engaging in day-to-day tasks.
Who are the EHSL students?
When you take 30ml of water and add 70ml of 100% Ethanol in 100ml cylinder and use it to wipe the lab' table before you start the experiment.
What is 70% Ethanol?
A party without parents, yet you can't wear whatever you want, and you get thorough instructions on how to behave in a party room. (No, it's not a paintball).
What is Safety Training?
The collection of band aids, antiseptic wipes, gauze, burn gel, pain killer.
What is the First Aid Kit?
The accounting of items (chemicals).
Every chemical we use goes back to its original space. We use up the opened container before getting into another one.
What is the chemical inventory?
People who know your weekly hours and can help you to figure out how to not fall behind. You can also tell them if you do not intend to come at the lab hours. Your position will be replaced with another student.
Who is Chuck, Olga, Dr. Scheuerman?
When you restrict lab access when working.
What is the closed door?
Chemical Hygiene Plan is the collection of rules to ensure lab users safety. CHP is implemented under this big organization which is the part of the US Department of Labor.
What is OSHA? Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
Fancy dress accessories that make you look like a scientist.
What is the Personal Protective Equipment.
First, we autoclave bio-hazardous solutions. Next, we dump solutions to the sink. After that, we wash the glassware and soak it in 3% Contrad solution overnight. Next day, we rinse the glassware with water following up with DI water rinse. Lastly, we dry glassware on a rack and put it away to the proper places.
What is the procedure for disinfecting and washing biohazardous solutions?
A plan and record of your hours that you intend to use during your work at EHSL from 8am to 4:30pm.
What is the schedule?
This glassware does not fit the definition of a sharp; it is not contaminated with chemicals; it goes into the metal can located in room 5.
What is the BROKEN glassware?
The longest binder series currently in existence in the EHSL. Under the law of "RIGHT TO KNOW", they contain sophisticated hazardous codes and survival guidance in the lab.
What is the Material Safety Data Sheets? MSDS
A map on a wall that helps you to get to the most desired destination at the moment.
What is the Evacuation Plan?
"No shirt, No shoes, No lab coat, No eye protection, No service."
What is the lab PPE?
People who coordinate with colleagues to cover the continuous coverage of EHSL from 8am to 4:30pm
Who are the graduate students?
Use with volatile and toxic chemicals; keep the front window down as far as possible; do not use for storage; never put your head inside with vapors present.
What is the Fume Hood?
CHP is the part of Occupational Safety and Health Act that was signed into law under this president.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Instructions on how to panic when you drop the flask.
What is the plan for cleaning the spills?
The presence of a hazardous constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that is brought from the lab to non-laboratory spaces and gets on surfaces, clothes, food.
What is the chemical or bio-hazardous contamination?
5-15% of your time is allotted to reading materials for journal club or literature review.
The rest of the time is dedicated to work in the lab.
What are my primary tasks? What is washing, inventory, checking low stock items; weekly maintenance of chemical instruments and safety wash stations; current experiments?
Two main things that are affected by your choices of practices in the lab.
What is Safety and Health?