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Safety Plan Report
Plan Number 205 Annual Approval 1/3/2010
Area BILTMORE HALL Approved 2/20/2009
Room 1228 Approval Notes No chemicals in this area
Investigators
Barbara White
Position Research Operations Manager Home Phone 919-753-8523
Office Phone 919-513-0298 Room
Office Building 3115 Biltmore Hall/Robertson Email [email protected]
Campus Box
Department Wood & Paper Science
Joel Pawlak
Position Home Phone 919-206-4274
Office Phone 919-513-0511 Room
Office Building 3207 Biltmore Hall Email [email protected]
Campus Box 8005
Department Wood and Paper Scien
Linda McMurray
Position Research Techinician III Home Phone
Office Phone 513-0335 Room
Office Building Email [email protected]
Campus Box
Department
Authorized Personnel
Personnel Position Wes Johnson Pilot Plant Manager
Linda McMurray Laboratory Research Specialist
Jim McMurray Research Technician
Emergency Contacts
Contact Number Campus Emergencies 911
Carolinas Poison Center (800) 848-6946
Environmental Health and Safety Center (919) 515-7915
Wake Medical Canter Emergency (919) 350-8000
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Ring Crush of Paperboard
Description
characterizes paperboard’s resistance to crushing by in-plane compressive forces
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required Safety goggles, rubber gloves
Potential Hazards Compression, electrical shock
Spill and Accident Procedures
Accidents should be reported to course instructor or
lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
Hand Compression
PPE
Category Type Description
Safety Glasses Eye
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Puncture Test
Description
measures the resistance of paperboard and corrugated or solid fiberboard to punctures
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required safety glasses
Potential Hazards puncture, electrical shock
Spill and Accident Procedures
Accidents should be reported to course instructor or
lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Sample Preparation
Description
Categories
Description
Potential Hazards cuts/abrasions from paper/box cutters
Spill and Accident
Procedures
Report all accidents to either course instructor or lab
manager
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Atomic Force Microscope
Description
Categories
Description
Potential Hazards eye injury from laser beam
Spill and Accident Procedures All accidents should be reported to P.I. or lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Brightness Test
Description
Brightness essentially measures the freedom from yellowness that results from lignin and
other impurities left in pulp and paper because of incomplete bleaching.
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required Safety glasses
Spill and Accident Procedures
All accidents should be reported to course instructor
or lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Gloss Test
Description
used to measure gloss of paper
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required Safety glasses
Spill and Accident Procedures
All accidents should be reported to class instructor or
lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Roughness Test
Description
used to test the roughness of paper
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required Safety glasses
Potential Hazards pressurized air
Spill and Accident Procedures
All accidents should be reported to course instructor
or lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Folding Endurance
Description
test measures the amount of folding that paper will endure before its tensile strength falls
below a standard value of one kilogram force
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required Safety glasses
Potential Hazards compression
Spill and Accident Procedures
All accidents should be reported to class instructor or
lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Oil Resistance
Description
measures the oil receptivity of paperboard because oil reciptivity is roughly equivalent to
ink receptivity
Categories
Description
Hazardous
Chemicals/Chemicals Classes oil
Personal Protective
Equipment Required Safety glasses
Spill and Accident
Procedures
If oil is spilled, clean it up and dispose as hazardous
waste. Report all accidents to course instructor or the lab
manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Wax Pick Test
Description
The surface bonding strength of paper is a measure of its resistance to separation of
coating or fibers or to any cleavage parallel to the sheet surfaces.
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required Safety glasses
Potential Hazards ethanol flame
Spill and Accident Procedures
Accidents should be reported to course instructor or
lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Air Permeability
Description
Paper and other porous sheet materials permit air to flow through under a pressure
difference across the sheet. This property is commonly called air permeability.
Categories
Description
Hazardous
Chemicals/Chemicals
Classes
oil
Personal Protective
Equipment Required safety glasses
Potential Hazards oil splatter, pressurized air
Special Handling and
Storage Requirements
Never raise the inner cylinder with the sample still clamped;
this would cause an oil spill. The proper procedure is to first
unclamp the specimen and then to raise the inner cylinder.
Precautions should be taken to avoid subjecting the
apparatus to vibration.
Spill and Accident
Procedures
Accidents should be reported to course instructor or lab
manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Opacity of Paper
Description
Procedure determines the opacity of paper (the ability of paper to hide printing on its
reverse side or on sheets underneath)
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required safety glasses
Potential Hazards pinch, electrical
Spill and Accident Procedures
Accidents should be reported to course instructor or
lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Bulking Thickness & Bulking Factor
Description
The measurement of bulking thickness is used for finding the average thickness of paper
when placed in a pile, as for use in books.
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required safety glasses
Potential Hazards pinch
Spill and Accident Procedures
Accidents should be reported to course instructor or
lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Taber Stiffness Test
Description
Characterizes the resistance of paper and paperboard to a bending force (force applied
perpendicular to the plane of the strip)
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required safety glasses
Potential Hazards moving parts
Spill and Accident Procedures
All accidents should be reported to the course
instructor or lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Lhomargy Bending Stiffness Tester
Description
Measures specific flexural rigidity; covers a wider range of stiffness values
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required safety glasses
Potential Hazards pinch
Spill and Accident Procedures
Accidents should be reported to the course instructor
or lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Tearing Strength
Description
tear tester on left hand side--tissue and weak paper
tear tester on right hand side--strong paper and paperboard
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required safety glasses
Potential Hazards electrical, compressed air, pinch
Spill and Accident Procedures
All accidents should be reported to course instructor
or lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Slide Angle Tester
Description
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required safety glasses
Potential Hazards electrical, magnet (weak), moving parts
Spill and Accident Procedures
Accidents should be reported to the course instructor
or lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Scott Bond
Description
Measures internal bond strength of paper
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required safety glasses
Potential Hazards pinch, impact
Spill and Accident Procedures
Accidents should be reported to the course instructor or
the lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Bursting Strength
Description
Measures the amount of pressure necessary to rupture paper
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required safety glasses
Potential Hazards electrical, pressure, pinch
Spill and Accident Procedures
Accidents should be reported to the course instructor
or lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Tensile Properties
Description
tensile strength, breaking length, tensile index, stretch, tensile energy absorption, tensile
stiffness
Categories
Description
Personal Protective Equipment
Required safety glasses
Potential Hazards electrical, pressurized air, pinch
Spill and Accident Procedures
Accidents should be reported to the course instructor
or lab manager.
Hazards
Category Type Description
PPE
Category Type Description
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Evacuation Plan
Department of Wood and Paper Science
August 2006
There are two types of evacuation:
1. General: All building occupants must evacuate.
The General Evacuation Routes are marked on the Evacuation Plan map located in each lab’s
safety plan or in the hallways of each floor. All occupants shall exit the building immediately
when a fire alarm is sounded and gather outside at Hodges Wood Products Lab where they
will await further instruction. Instructors are responsible for ensuring their classes evacuate,
and employees who are hosting visitors should escort them safely out of the building. Public
Safety will advise when it is safe to return. Turn off all power and gas lines before
evacuating if it can be done safely, and close all doors (offices/labs/fire doors).
2. Local: Occupants of the lab must evacuate.
Local evacuations do not require exit from the building. Occupants of the lab should gather
outside the lab entrance and await further direction. Avoid hindering any emergency
operations in progress.
In any evacuation, do not leave the designated meeting area. Your absence will be
interpreted that you are still in the danger area and one or more persons may risk their lives
looking for you.
WHEN TO EVACUATE:
1. Fire of any nature. Activate pull station and proceed with general evacuation
of the building. Phone Public Safety (911) from another building
immediately.
2. Chemical spill. Since generally small quantities of chemicals are handled in
the lab, spills are likely to be relatively small in volume, and may not require
evacuation. Spills of fuming acids, such as concentrated hydrochloric acid,
may require local evacuation, with re-entry when spill is properly contained
and cleaned up.
3. Gas leak from cylinders or gas line. Scale of evacuation will depend on
seriousness of leak and nature of gas. Minor gas leaks from cylinders may
not require evacuation, but rather simply removal of the cylinder outdoors for
pick-up by Central Stores (ext. 5-2211). Cylinder rupture or valve breakage,
or gas line rupture dictate evacuation. Open windows if possible. If the gas is
reactive, corrosive, or highly flammable, general evacuation should proceed.
Less reactive gases may dictate local evacuation. In the event of any gas leak,
notify Barbara White or Dr. Orlando Rojas.
4. Power interruption: If fume hood blowers are not functioning as a result of a
power interruption, open windows, make sure switches are left ON, and
immediately proceed with local evacuation. Close lab entrance door. Do not
enter room after power is restored; wait until notified by Public Safety that it
is safe to return.
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Emergency Facilities Closure Plan
Department of Wood and Paper Science
1228 Biltmore Hall/Pulp and Paper (Pawlak)
November 7, 2008
The actions listed below would be completed during an Emergency Alert Level 2 or Level 3
incident as declared by the Chancellor or his designate. This emergency alert information
would be available on the website www.ncsu.edu or through the Wolf Alert System (text
messages). Please be aware that the unpredictable events of nature do not always allow for
an orderly progression for emergency response as outlined below. In that event, prudent safety
practices would dictate the appropriate response, meaning that departmental personnel
should not risk personal injury to protect property.
Materials Needed:
Plastic sheeting to cover all paper testing equipment (see safety plan for complete list),
balances, computers, and printers (NOTE TO SELF---be sure to include information on
whether/how to shut down the environmental control system)
Labels and markers
Tape
Flash drive or cds
Emergency Closure Procedure:
1. Ensure that the contact information on the door is correct: names/phone numbers for Dr.
Joel Pawlak and Linda McMurray.
2. Remove all items from the floors (including paper samples and equipment) to ensure
aisles are clear for emergency personnel to operate if necessary and to protect from
possible water damage.
3. Suspend analysis on equipment at the end of the current sample being analyzed as
noted in the instrument manuals and/or standard operating procedures (SOPs)—current
list of equipment is available from the safety plan.
4. Disconnect tubing for each piece of equipment from the air connections.
5. Remove lab notebooks from the lab areas and store in plastic bags in a secure area.
Label contents of the bags.
6. Ensure that all gas cylinders are properly secured, the valves are closed, regulators are
removed, and caps are installed.
7. Back up all computers on a flash drive or a cd. Take these back-ups with you to a secure
location.
8. Unplug all electrical equipment.
9. After unplugging equipment, computers, and printer, cover each piece with plastic
sheeting, taping down the edges.
10. Make sure all utilities are closed (gas, air, water).
