October safety issue

                                                                                                               10/06/2015

To all;

Building and Laboratory Safety Inspection

Last month (September), LORRE was inspected by REM for Building and Laboratory Safety; REM alerted LORRE with 11 points that had to be addressed and corrected for the safety inspection. We would like to thank Mahdie Aghazadeh, Dr. Ximin Zhang, Raymond Red Corn, Neal Hengge, and Emma Brace for their immediate help with the LORRE safety community to correct these safety violations in our work area. Below are the summarized safety violations – please take note so that we can ensure a safe working environment:

·       Have to post the Certification of Hazard Assessment on doors

·       Must post Emergency telephone numbers (24 hours) outside lab doors

·       Inadequately labeled containers

·       Dispose of used gloves with other laboratory waste

·       Unsafe operations inside a fume hood: sashes must not be opened beyond the recommended height or width and must not be obstructed from closing completely

·       Fire doors shall not be blocked, obstructed, propped open, or otherwise made inoperable

Placard Prototype

Professor Engelberth,Abigail has given a great safety solution by providing us with some prototypes for a placard. When you need to leave your experiment, these placards can be labeled with important information to keep our work area safe.  

Thanks

LORRE safety Committee