Dear Chemists and other Lab Safety Professionals,

I’m interested in compiling a list of lab techniques that result in accidents or injuries.

The classic example is the insertion of a thermometer or glass tube through a rubber or cork stopper.

In the end I plan to steal or develop written guidance to address these techniques.

There is a real possibility “we” will be able to create short videos to teach folks the safe way to do this work.

To start, here are some ideas:

Bending glass

Creating capillary tubes

Running a flash column

Quenching a solvent drying still bottom

Storing chemicals (segregating by hazard class)opening micro centrifugation tubes without creating aerosols)

And many more…

Some existing videos from Aldrich are:

http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/life-science/c ell-culture/learning-center/cell-culture-videos.html

http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/life-science/learning-center /life-science-video.html

and from others:

http://www.p ipette.com/Support/GuideToPipetting.pdf

http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/esi/2002/Biology/Projects/lab_s kills/ls7/

http://homepa ges.gac.edu/~cellab/appds/appd-f.html

http://abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/resources/centrifugatio n.html

who knows, we might even be able to deliver videos them via iPhones J

I will compile the responses and place the list on our website

Thanks,

-Russ

Russell Vernon, Ph.D.
www.uctrips-insurance.org< br> Laboratory / Research Safety Specialist, Integrated Waste Manager
Environmental Health & Safety
University of California, Riverside
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