At the Faculty of science, much work involves hazardous substances. The Policy on Hazardous Substances outlines the rules for handling these hazardous substances.
The policy has two main goals:
- To minimise the use of hazardous substances as much as possible;
- To properly organise the necessary use of hazardous substances for research and education.
Chemwatch
If you're looking for information about the risks of hazardous substances, you can use ChemWatch, a database containing chemical information and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). ChemWatch includes detailed information on 40,000 pure substances and 75,000 mixtures. It also contains mini SDS or workplace instruction sheets. Go to the website of Chemwatch.
Procedures and instructions
- Overview of custom regulations for hazardous substances
- Procedure for internal transport of hazardous substances and gas cylinders at FNWI
- Procedure for external transport of hazardous substances within and outside the campus
- Procedure for information and training on hazardous substances
- Procedure for the use and management of hazardous substances at FNWI
- Work instruction on how to act in the event of a chemical incident
- Work instruction on labeling diluted chemicals
- Work instruction cleaning hazardous substances in departments
- Work instruction for safely working in fume hoods
- Work instruction for using nitrogen switching for elevators in Huygens building and Mercator 3 building FNWI