Chemical Storage
Ethanol is an example of a chemical that should be stored here.
What is a flammables cabinet?
SOP
What is Standard Operating Procedure?
This disaster was the result of a failure of low temperatures stiffening several o-rings. Seven people were killed.
What is the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster?
The lab safety binders must contain this document outlining laboratory usage and procedures, signed by all members of the laboratory yearly.
What is the Unit Specific Plan?
The number of work-related injuries and illnesses our department drives towards with safety awareness initiatives such as this one.
What is zero?
All received chemicals must be labeled with this information upon arrival in the laboratory.
What are the date and owner?
EHS
What is Environmental Health and Safety?
On August 4th, 2020, improperly stored ammonium nitrate detonated in this city, causing the deaths of at least 218 people.
What is Beirut?
How often the chemical inventory must be updated in the Laboratory and Research Safety Binder.
What is annually?
The 4-number extension for police services here at PSU (campus police).
What is 1111?
Concentrated sodium hydroxide (base) should be stored in a container made of this material?
What is plastic (specifically High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) and Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE))?
HAT
What is Hazard Analysis Tool?
Often dubbed "the worst industrial accident in the history of the world", the Bhopal gas tragedy occurred when poorly maintained infrastructure allowed water into a tank of methyl isocyanate gas which resulted in this term describing a process accelerated by increasing T, which then releases energy further increasing T.
What is thermal runaway?
How often the emergency eye wash stations must be checked.
What is weekly?
The volume of waste allowed to accumulate in a satellite accumulation area before it is required to be removed within 3 days.
What is 55 gallons?
When diluting a concentrated acid, this is the correct method for combining the acid and water.
What is adding the concentrated acid into water?
OSHA
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
A poorly constructed and safety-tested tank in Boston burst, killing 21 in a flood of this sticky substance used in rum distillation.
What is molasses?
The length of time waste is allowed to sit in the satellite accumulation area before pick-up is mandated.
What is 11 months?
Flammable liquids are defined as having a flash point below this temperature.
What is 100 degrees F (37.7 degrees C)
As a strong oxidizer, nitric acid should never be mixed with these compounds, which can include several weak acids.
What are organics?
MSAO
What is the MatSE Safety Awareness Organization?
Criminal levels of safety negligence (including use of a screwdriver to prop this 6.2 kg mass of sub-critical plutonium open for demonstration purposes resulted in two separate incidents each causing a fatality) gave this intended atomic bomb its hellish nickname.
What is the demon core?
The length of time a lab group must keep completed weekly satellite accumulation area check sheets in the laboratory and research safety binder?
What is 3 years?
The wavelength of UV light at which any shorter wavelengths must be considered dangerous.
What is 3500 A (350 nm)?