2012 MRL Safety Inspection Pre-Inspection Meeting - Feb 08, 2012.

2012 MRL Safety InspectionPre-Inspection Meeting - Feb 08, 2012

•Time for general lab clean up, time to get your lab safety up to date.

•Commonly cited items last year•Inspection criteria•Common issues and particular things that we’ll be looking for•Incidents•Time for questions & discussion about: Inspections, LSMs, CHPs, SOPs, Chem. inventories, Incidents, etc.

Overview

2011 Safety Inspection: Items cited >20 times

Door signs: out of date, hazard sections not completed

Cluttered labs/aisles

Missing equipment guards, panels

Blocked electrical panels

Electrical cord placement/routing/condition

Lack of first aid kits, spill kits

Lack of Lab Safety Manuals, incl. CHPs, SOPs, chemical inventories, emergency procedures & shutdown instructions

PPE use, availability (eye protection, lab coats)

Chem. storage by compatibility

Chem. storage: secondary containment







































































Blocked electrical panels clearance requirement: 3 feet
















































PPE use, availability (eye protection, lab coats, gloves)













Chem. storage – use of secondary containment









PPE use, availability (eye protection, lab coats, gloves)



Unsecured gas cylinders

Improper labeling of chemicals

2011 Safety Inspection: Improvements

Less accumulation of waste chemicals before processing for disposal

Storage of toxics/carcinogens not used

Storage of large quantities when less is sufficient

Common issues

Particular things that we’ll be looking for…

Disposing old equipment

Take responsibility to find out if there are any ‘items of concern’ in equipment that you’re going to dispose. Can’t simply throw everything away any more.

•Toxic materials, such as PCBs, dyes, batteries, etc. must be disposed properly.

New State Law: No electronics may be thrown in the trash.

If you are unsure, contact us. The safety committee can help.

Syringes

Considered PIMW* – must not be disposed in trash.Waste transfer station workers can’t tell the difference.

Syringes must always be disposed in a Sharps container...

•Syringes of any material

•Any part of a syringe (needles, bodies, plungers)

•Regardless of use

•includes unused syringes

* Potentially Infected Medical Waste

Sharps containers & their disposal are free.

Alcatel Vacuum pumps

Oil-sealed rotary vane vacuum pumps subject to recall. (See ref. slides)

Water lines

Water lines must be reinforced tubing.

Connections must be clamped.

Secured

Nylon reinforced PVC

Water lines

Water lines that aren’t pressurized are exempt but must still be secure.

Example: water lines that free-flow into the drain.

Secured

Bad Good

Incidents…

UCLA fatal tert-butyl lithium fire - Dec, 2008

Very brief summary

•While dispensing t-BuLi, syringe plunger popped out of syringe body, material splashed onto her clothes.•The material ignited. (It’s pyrophoric)•Knocked over an open flask of Hexane – which also ignited.•Fire ignited her polyester sweater, severely burning her arms and upper torso.


Complex case, nonetheless a few basic lessons can be related:

•PPE! No lab coat worn•Amount of material vs. capacity of container 50mL/60mL•Unrelated chemicals in work area•Know the location of, and use emergency equipment•Think about what else you’re wearing: Synthetic materials like polyester described as being “analogous to solid gasoline.”*•Don’t take things for granted (more later)•Undoubtedly more.

* Neal Langerman, founder of Advanced Chemical Safety in an ACS report http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i04/8704news1.html


Consequences:

•Injuries were fatal•Questions of training, hazard identification, lab safety practices, supervision.•Felony charges have been filed against UC and against professor

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1228-ucla-death-20111228,0,7543387.story

Texas Tech Nickel hydrazine perchlorate explosion – Jan, 2010

Very brief summary

•Students synthesized 10 grams of material instead of 100 milligrams max. •5th year grad student removing ‘lumps’ in 5g portion of the material with a mortar & pestle.•Set the materials down and removed goggles.•Returned to give it one more stir, neglecting to don goggles.•Material exploded, causing the loss of 3 digits on left hand, lacerating right hand, perforating left eye, scratching right eye, etc.


Complex case, nonetheless a few basic lessons can be related:

•PPE! Removed eye protection before last ‘stir’ then failed to put it back on.•Researcher’s space was disorganized, items not labeled. Conflicts over space, cleanliness, use of chemicals.•Students were apparently told there was a 100mg limit – no documentation to support this.•No notes taken during the experiment, uncertainty over the material synthesized.•Undoubtedly more.

Consequences:

•Injuries•Questions of training, supervision•Documentation of training and restrictions imposed on students essentially nonexistent.•TTU overhauls its safety structure.•Acknowledgement that lab standards focus on health and exposure hazards, but physical hazard information is way behind, or missing


These two incidents focusing attention to lab safety in academia.

• Seemingly endless, minute safety details make sense and protect researchers, but are not necessarily complete.

• Familiarity can be the enemy – you do some things every day.

• Almost inevitably, perception of risk may change, but the risks do not.

One of the big challenges in keeping safety measures prominent in the minds of researchers

Lessons - in a broad sense.

• Try not to take things for granted.• Reporting of incidents and near misses are a way

for everyone to learn.• SOP template includes a signature line for

documentation of training – this isn’t by chance.

• Without documentation, essentially no training has occurred in the eyes of investigating bodies.

Lessons - in a broad sense.

Questions?

http://mrl.illinois.edu/safety

Inspection calendar:

Reference slides…

Alcatel Vacuum pumps

Affected ModelsThese pumps include models in the ALCATEL PASCAL Series ‐ in sizes from 5 to 21 m3/h (cubic meters per hour). Specific models include:1005, 1010, 1015, 1021: ‐ including those with "SD" or "C1" suffixes2005 SD, I, C1, or H12010 SD, I, C1, or C22015 SD, I, C1, C2, or H12021 SD, I, C1, or C2

Affected models all have serial numbers BELOW 408960.

UCLA t-BuLi fire•http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/87/8731sci1.html - Includes numerous links for more info.

•http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i04/8704news1.html•http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1228-ucla-death-20111228,0,7543387.story

TTU Ni hydrazine perchlorate explosion•http://www.csb.gov/investigations/detail.aspx?SID=90&Type=2&pg=1&F_All=y•http://cen.acs.org/articles/88/i34/Texas-Tech-Lessons.html

Video covering both incidents (and trimethylmercury poisoning incident)

http://www.csb.gov/videoroom/detail.aspx?VID=61 *

* Well done – recommended(Consider showing it to your group)

Long form 1/3

Long form 2/3

Long form 3/3

Office Insp. form

Short Form

Door sign

http://www.drs.illinois.edu/gls/forms/pdf/emergencycontactsign.pdf

MRL safety page:http://mrl.illinois.edu/safety

e-mail: [email protected] Inspection short form:http://mrl.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/ShortFormForLabSelfInspections.pdfLab inspection full form & instructions:http://mrl.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/UofILabSafetyInspectionForm.pdfhttp://mrl.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/UofILabSafetyInspectionFormInstructions.pdfMRL Office inspection form:http://mrl.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/2009MRLOfficeInspectionForm.pdfUniversity of Illinois Lab Safety Manual Template:http://www.drs.illinois.edu/factsheets/index.aspxUniversity of Illinois Chemical Hygiene Plan template:http://mrl.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/UofICHPNotebook.pdfU of I CHP page:http://www.drs.illinois.edu/css/guidesplans/chypBlank MRL Chemical Inventory form:http://mrl.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/ChemicalInventoryForm-blank.docUniversity of Illinois Laboratory Door Sign Editable PDF form:http://www.drs.illinois.edu/gls/forms/pdf/emergencycontactsign.pdf

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