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Safety and Hazards In a Chemical Laboratory

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13025/
 
Title Safety and Hazards In a Chemical
Laboratory
 
Creator Chakraborty, Kajal
Joy, Minju
Vinaya, K K
Elizabeth Mani, Aswathy
 
Subject Biochemistry
 
Description A key element of planning an experiment is assessing the hazards and potential risks
associated with the chemicals and laboratory operations to be used. The primary
responsibility for proper hazard evaluations and risk assessments lies with the person
performing the experiment. The actual evaluations and assessments may be performed by
trained laboratory personnel, but these should be checked and authorized by the supervisor.
The supervisor is also responsible for ensuring that everyone involved in an experiment
and those nearby understand the evaluations and assessments. Some organizations have
environmental health and safety offices, with industrial hygiene specialists to advise trained
laboratory personnel and their supervisors in risk assessment. As part of a culture of safety,
the supervisor and scholars in the laboratory must work cooperatively to create a safe
environment and to ensure that hazards are appropriately identified and assessed prior to
beginning work. All laboratory personnel should be familiar with and have ready access to
their institution’s chemical hygiene plan. In some laboratories, chemical hygiene plans include
standard operating procedures for work with specific chemical substances, and the chemical
hygiene plan may be sufficient as the primary source of information used for risk assessment
and experiment planning. However, most chemical hygiene plans provide only general
procedures for handling chemicals, and prudent experiment planning requires that laboratory
personnel consult additional sources for information on the properties of the substances
that will be encountered in the proposed experiment. Many laboratories require
documentation of specific hazards and controls for a proposed experiment.
 
Date 2018
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13025/1/Winter%20School_Recent%20Advances_Bioactive%20compounds_Chapter%2016.pdf
Chakraborty, Kajal and Joy, Minju and Vinaya, K K and Elizabeth Mani, Aswathy (2018) Safety and Hazards In a Chemical Laboratory. In: Winter School on “Recent advances in bioactive compounds from marine organisms and development of high value products for health management, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi.