Chemical Safety
Tradebe
Who is GSU's chemical waste vendor?
Geiger Counter
What is the instrument used to measure radiation?
Risk Groups
What are classifications that describe the relative hazard posed by infectious agents or toxins in the laboratory?
EPA
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
BSL-3/BSL-4
What are the high containment or maximum containment laboratories?
Chematix
What is a chemical inventory software?
5 rem/year
What is the maximum whole body dose limit for radiation workers?
Sharps
What is any devices with sharp points which can puncture a worker's skin such as needles, scalpels, capillary tubes?
Universal Waste
What are hazardous wastes that are widely produced by households and many different types of businesses?
Select agents
What are biological agents that have been determined to have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety, to animal and plant health, or to animal or plant products?
Satellite Accumulation Area
What is a site near any point of generation where wastes accumulate, which under control of the operator?
ALARA
What is As Low as Reasonably Achievable?
Biohazards
What are biological agents are classified into 4 Risk Group (RG) categories according to their relative pathogenicity for healthy human adult?
UST
What is an Underground storage tank?
Tier 1 select agents
A subset of select agents and toxins which present the greatest risk of deliberate misuse with significant potential for mass casualties.
RCRA
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act? aka Cradle to Grave
Rad
What is the energy deposited by any ionizing radiation ?
Bloodborne pathogens
What are infectious microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease? incl Hepatitis B and C, and HIV
SPCC
What is the Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures rule created to prevent a discharge of oil into navigable waters or adjoining shorelines?
CDC/USDA
What are the regulating agencies of select agents and toxins?
Corrosive Waste
What are waste materials which are aqueous and have a pH less than or equal to 2 OR greater than or equal to 12.5
LASER
What is light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation?
NIH Guidelines
What are the detail safety practices and containment procedures for research involving recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecules, including the creation and use of organisms and viruses containing recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecules?
lead, asbestos, mold
What are common indoor air pollutants?
Insider Threat
What is an individual or group with authorized access to Tier 1 BSAT as part of their job who has the means to misuse them as biological weapons?