Hi Heike. Great topic!
Basic requirements:
* No eating or drinking in the lab. Water bottles brought in backpacks
can stay in there; others should be left by the door, preferably in the hall.
* No chemical mixing in the magnet rooms. All samples must be capped/sealed
when brough in, and must stay that way until they are taken from the lab.
* We do have an adjacent support lab w/ a hood, bench, eyewash station,
and sink, so people can start reacitons and do titrations there.
* Secondary containers are required for bringing samples in and out of
the lab. I found a resource to supply cheap white plastic flasks that people can
personalize<
https://chemnmrlab.uchicago.edu/community/*safetyflasks> with craft
supplies, and compliance has been high.
Our PPE requirements:
* Safety glasses not required, but OK to wear (safety is on the fence about
this; sometimes they say they’d like to reuire them)
* Lab coats prohibited (unless brought to the support lab and stay there).
his prevents contamination of the lab surfaces, including furniture. People
actually compain to me when they see someone where a lab coat in the NMR lab.
* Gloves worn in their labs are prohibited to stop contamination, but fresh
gloves provided hy the facility are permitted.
* After COVID lockdown’s glove requirement, we found some people prefer
wearing gloves, so we continue to supply them.
* To signal that the gloves are fresh, we only provide *pink* gloves
on our safety cart. As far as I know, none of the labs regularly uses pink
gloves, so if you see someone wearing them at a spectrometer, you can be assured
that they’re fresh from our cart.
* We occasionally have difficulty meshing our requirement with the
institutional “one glove” rule, which enables people carrying samples
between labs to carry samples with a gloved hand but use an ungloved hand
to open doors, push elevator buttons, etc. Sometimes people wear their one
glove into lab and start handling samples and typing without taking that glove
off. I need to remind them to take that glove off right away; I’m working
on signage to communicate that more consistently and visibly.
I have some additional thoughts on safety signage, especially magnet signage,
but maybe I’ll start a separate thread about that.
Thanks for bringing up the topic!
* Josh
Josh Kurutz, PhD
NMR Facility Manager, Chemistry Dept.
University of Chicago
https://chemnmrlab.uchicago.edu/
jkurutz_at_uchicago.edu
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> Date: Tuesday, August 6, 2024 at 6:47 AM
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> Subject: [AMMRL] Safety requirements in NMR labs
Dear All,
I am interested in the safety requirements in NMR labs.
We are facing the dilemma of no (or little PPE) to avoid outside contamination
(such as dirty gloves on all keyboards) versus the blanket guideline to
"wear PPE in all laboratory environments". How you do handle this? Any input
is really appreciated!
Heike
Dr. Heike Hofstetter
Director Magnetic Resonance
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1101 University Ave, Madison, Wi 53706
Tel; +1 608 262-7536
email: hofstetter_at_wisc.edu
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