The Laboratory Stewards set up and maintain a system such that

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Tasks of Lab Stewards, Safety Stewards

• The Laboratory Stewards set up and maintain a
  system such that
• i) instruments are switched off at the end of
  the day
• ii) every experiment that must continue
  overnight is covered by an overnight experiment
  card that is properly displayed
• Safety Stewards take care of the Safety issues
  and meet regularly with the Safety Committee (
  Safety Stewards Peter van Dijk, Floris Rutjes,
  Martin Feiters)
• Monthly meeting, next October 29

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Check-in, check-out

• New people starting in the lab should check in,
  i.e. make themselves acquainted with the safety
  procedures, and sign a statement that they have
  done this confidentiality agreement
  internship form
• People leaving the lab should check out i)
  remove data from computers ii) clean and
  return equipment iii) store their chemicals
  properly
• iv) return door pass
• and sign a statement that they have done this.

Go to the Information and Safety Manual
on http//www.orgchem.science.ru.nl/safety
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Room responsibles Safety/Lab steward
03.130L 03.130R Erik Schwartz Erik
Schwartz Nico Veling
03.118 René Aben Mark Damen 03.115 René Aben
Marloes Wijdeven 03.112 Bas Ritzen Bas van den
Broek 03.109 Bas Ritzen Jorge Verkade
Nolte/Rutjes ? Rutjes/Rowan ?
? van Hest
03.230 Dennis Waalboer Dennis Waalboer 03.227,
224, 218, 211 Theo Peters / Suzanne Kuiper
03.430 , 427 Dennis Löwik Hans Adams
03.411 DL 03.414 RdG/JS
03.418 Peter van Dijk 03.421 Ad Swolfs Peter van
Galen
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Room responsibles Safety/Lab steward

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Emergency Exits

• Two emergency exits for every lab wing
• Two normal entrances/exits for every lab room,
  where lab workers and visitors can pick up/leave
  coats and glasses
• The doors on the side of the lab rooms are
  emergency exits only

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General Procedures (1)

• Do not do chemical work alone.
• Always wear glasses and lab coats. Have your lab
  coat cleaned regularly (monthly)
• Rinse the glassware that you want to dispose of,
  or let the solvent evaporate in a fume cupboard.
  Remove the labels/make them illegible, pay
  particular attention to the danger codes
• Do not be overeconomic with disposable gloves
  when you use gloves for an experiment in the fume
  cupboard, dispose of your gloves when you start
  doing something else. Pay attention to the type
  of gloves (latex ? nitrile ?) that is appropriate
  for your experiment.

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General Procedures (2)

• Cyanide we have the antidotes but only a medical
  doctor is allowed to apply them
• Keep gas cylinders fixed and in an upright
  position
• Be aware of the danger of asphyxation when large
  amounts of liquified gases (N2, He) are quenched
• Outside working hours, the fume cupboards are
  controlled by a timer. Switch it on when you work
  late, and off when you leave.
• Keep i) the chemical laboratories tidy, but also
• ii) the instrument rooms (NMR and other)
• iii) the office space
• iv) the toilets

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Instrument Room 03.411

• The Instrument Room 03.411 (CD spectrometer,
  Langmuir troughs, DSC, DLS, etc.) does not have
  proper ventilation
• Organic solvents may be handled in the small fume
  cupboard but it must be switched on
• After use the fume cupboard must be switched off
  and tidied up
• Tidy up the instruments and the space around it
  after use
• Do not leave organic solvents in the Instrument
  Room (because it is not ventilated) but take them
  back to your own lab to dispose of them

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First Aid - EHBO
First Aid - EHBO
Wing 03.1 Linda Hendriks, Jorge Verkade, Bas Ritze
n, Lieke van Hemert
Désirée van der Wey
Wing 03.4 Stijn van Dongen, Peter van Galen
Wing 03.2 Theo Peters
Hans Adams
René de Gelder
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Pressured Air
Wing 03.1 Victor Claessen, Marco Felici,
Jorge Verkade, Bas Ritzen
Wing 03.4 Tuha Vong
Wing 03.2
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Accidents and Failures

• Report all accidents to the Safety Committee, so
  that repeated accidents cannot be dismissed as
  incidents
• For the same reason, send an additional Email
  message to 33333_at_science.ru.nl every time you
  have phoned 33333 (UFB) to ask for help with a
  failure, and copy it to Martin Feiters and Peter
  van Dijk