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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Fume Hood Testing ASHRAE 110 - NIH modified
Date: Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 2:24:42 PM
Author: Christine Rogers <car**At_Symbol_Here**EHS.UMASS.EDU> 		Next by Date:
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Safety Showers, Drains and ADA Compliance
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 15:27:32 -0500
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From: Debbie M. Decker <dmdecker**At_Symbol_Here**UCDAVIS.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Safety Showers, Drains and ADA Compliance
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 19:41:00 +0000
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Hi Melissa:

 

I've heard variations of that ADA argument from design teams who don't want to do something.  Irritating, to say the least.

 

I can go either way on floor drains.  What I will not accept is no drain for the eyewashes and I've been pretty successful getting them retrofitted here. The argument Margaret makes is excellent.

 

Good luck!

 

Debbie

 

Debbie M. Decker, CCHO, ACS Fellow

Past Chair, Division of Chemical Health and Safety

Councilor and Programming Co-Chair

University of California, Davis

(530)754-7964

(530)304-6728

dmdecker**At_Symbol_Here**ucdavis.edu

 

Birkett's hypothesis: "Any chemical reaction

that proceeds smoothly under normal conditions,

can proceed violently in the presence of an idiot."

 

 

 

From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety [mailto:DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU] On Behalf Of Melissa Anderson
Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2018 7:21 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Safety Showers, Drains and ADA Compliance

 

Greetings Everyone,

 

We're working with architects right now to plan out chem labs for a new science building. We've asked for drains under the safety showers and were told that wouldn't be possible because in order to be ADA compliant and have drains, the safety showers would take up too much space- has anyone encountered such an argument? 

 

(Note, we're extremely constrained on space due to some very complicated politics I won't go into here, so making the labs bigger is not an option.)

 

Thanks,

Melissa Anderson

Instructor

Pasadena City College

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