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Safety Manual

Cluster for Molecular Chemistry

Information & Safety Manual
Molecular Chemistry Cluster October 2019
Old webversion

Contents

Organization of the Molecular Chemistry Cluster

  1. Management
  2. Address
  3. Secretaries
  4. Supporting personnel
  5. Safety Committee and Stewards, PAM-mers, Laboratory Rooms
  6. First aid (EHBO)

Useful Information

  1. Check in
  2. Basics
  3. Illness
  4. Safety
  5. Ordering Chemicals
  6. Computers
  7. List of instrumentation
  8. Check out
  9. Disclaimer

Safety regulations

  1. Introduction
  2. General safety

2.1. List of important rules (PPE)
2.2. Organization of Safety
2.3. Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)
2.4. Order, tidiness and hygiene
2.5. Orientation in the laboratories
2.6. Working alone, working outside regular working hours
2.7. End of the working day, night-time experiments

  1. Hazardous substances

3.1. Preparing an experiment
3.2. Health risks
3.3. Threshold limits
3.4. Storage of chemicals
3.5. Waste
3.6. Compressed gases
3.7. Hazardous gases
3.7.1. Working with HF
3.7.2. Working with Cyanides
3.8. Cryogenic liquids
3.8.1. How to safely handle a cold trap
3.9. Chromatography columns
3.10. Distillation
3.11. Cleaning glass filters
3.12. Autoclaves
3.13. Biochemistry
3.13.1. Ethidium bromide
3.13.2. Acrylamide
3.13.3. Organic solvents

  1. Faults, fire and accidents:

4.1. General
4.2. Guidelines in case of a power failure
4.3. Guidelines in case of chemical spills
4.4. Guidelines for accidents
4.5. Guidelines in the event of fire
4.6. Guidelines for evacuation

  1. Important information

5.1. List of abbreviations
5.2. Important internet links

Appendices

  1. Breakthrough times for various glove materials
  2. Flow diagram for liquid waste from laboratories
  3. Check list for new members of the Molecular Chemistry Cluster
  4. Check list for leaving members of the Molecular Chemistry Cluster
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