Safety Services for MRL Groups
Chemical Safety
- Approving materials that you want to use in your labs
- How to read and understand a safety data sheet (SDS)
- How to start/maintain a chemical inventory
- How to store and label chemicals correctly
- Assist with proper personal protective equipment (PPE) for your needs
Waste
- How to request chemical waste
- How to dispose of bio waste
- How to dispose of radioactive waste
- How to obtain sharps containers, glass disposal boxes, wafer disposal containers
- How to dispose of sharps
- How to dispose of glass
- How to dispose of wafers
- How to label waste containers
Lab Documentation/Reporting
- Look over lab safety plans
- Safety management, SOPs, chemical inventory, safety training checklists
- Approving Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Do you have the right equipment in your lab
- Do you have all the needed personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Are the hazards listed
- Do you have control measures
- How to document lab safety trainings for the group
Accident Response
- How to prepare for andprevent spills
- How to put together a spill kit
- Proper spill response
- How to report lab incidents or injury
- How to get medical treatment for life treating and non-life threatening injury or exposure
Laboratory Best Practices/Procedures
- General housekeeping – help you get your lab organized
- Go over how to check your eyewashes and showers
- Go over how to check your fire extinguisher
- Laboratory set-up
- Laboratory close out
Other
- Meet with safety contacts, PI’s, facility staff, researchers for any safety needs
- Help assist with radiation and laser safety
- Help assist with Biological safety
- Respiratory Protection/Respirators
- How to prepare for the Division of Research Safety (DRS) lab safety audits
- Go over DRS laboratory safety audit results with each group
- If needed, help get you in contact with DRS or Safety and Compliance