SOURCES OF CHEMICAL SAFETY INFORMATION

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SOURCES OF CHEMICAL SAFETY INFORMATION

• Presentation by Pam Fatland
• Manager, Chemical Safety
• Office of Environmental Health Safety
• Tulane University
• [phone]
• January, 2004

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Office of Environmental Health Safety

• WEBSITE
• www.som.tulane.edu/oehs

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OEHS Web Page Topics

• Material Safety Data Sheets
• Chemical Safety
• Hazardous Materials Waste
• Fire Safety
• Dept Safety Reps

• Biosafety
• Bloodborne Pathogens
• Radiation Safety
• Ergonomics
• General Safety
• OEHS Pol Proc Manual

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OEHS Web PageChemical Safety Information

• Annual Lab Safety Documentation Forms
• OSHA Formaldehyde Standard Guide
• OSHA Hazard Communication Standard Guide
• OSHA Lab Standard/Chemical Hygiene Plan Guide

• Chemical Inventory Form
• Incompatible Chemical List
• Lab Hoods
• Lab Door Labels
• Compressed Gas Cylinders
• Ethyl Ether

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

• www.practicingsafescience.org
• (Online Lab Safety Course)

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Prudent Practices in the Laboratory

• National Research Council
• (Excellent source of laboratory safety
  information- now available online at
  www.nap.edu/catalog/4911.html )

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1) Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories2)
Less is Better Laboratory Chemical Management
for Waste Reduction

• American Chemical Society
• Available online at http//membership.acs.org/c/cc
  s/pubs/SACL_faculty.pdf
• http//membership.acs.org/c/ccs/pubs/less_is_bette
  r.pdf

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NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards

• (Available online at www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npg.htm
  l)

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Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical
Laboratories

• U.S. Dept. of Health Human Services
• Centers for Disease Control Prevention
• National Institutes of Health
• (Available online - See the Biosafety link of
  OEHS website)

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Hawleys Condensed Chemical DictionaryThe Merck
IndexChemical Abstracts
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Household Products Database

• The National Library of Medicine
• Available online at householdproducts.nlm.nih.
  gov

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Essential Practices for Managing Chemical
Reactive Hazards

• Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)
• Available online at www.aiche.org/ccps/resource
  s.htm

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Regulatory Websites

• www.osha.gov
• www.epa.gov
• www.bt.cdc.gov
• www.cdc.gov/niosh
• www.dot.gov