Table of Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Purpose
1.2 Scope and Application
1.3 Coordination
with other Standards and Guidelines
2 Responsibilities
2.1 Employer
2.1.1 College/University-Wide
2.1.2 Chief Executive Officer
2.1.3 Academic Provost and Deans
2.1.4 Biology Department Chair
2.1.5 Chemical Hygiene Officer
2.1.6 Biology Laboratories
Safety Officer
2.1.7 Biology Department
Safety Committee
2.1.8 Laboratory Supervisors: all
Faculty and Biology Lab Coordinator
2.1.9 Project Directors: Faculty
Researchers and Advisors for Student Research
2.1.10 Laboratory Worker: Student
Workers/Researchers
2.2 Supervisor
2.3 Employee
3 The Biology Laboratory Facility
3.1 Design:
3.1.1 Generic Signs
3.1.2 Restricted Access and
Designated Areas.
3.1.3 Storage Areas.
3.2 Safety Equipment
3.2.1 Safety Showers.
3.2.2 Eye Wash Facilities.
3.3 Ventilation Controls
3.3.1 General (Dilution) Exhaust:
3.3.2 Local Exhaust:
3.3.3 Proper Use of Local
Ventilation Systems (Fume Hoods):
3.3.4 Spill
Kits and Other Safety Equipment
4 Personal Protective Equipment
4.1 Eye Protection
4.2 Protection of Skin and Body.
4.3 Respirators.
5 Standard Operating Procedures
5.1 General Safety
Principles
5.2 Health and Hygiene
5.3 Food and Drink in the Laboratory
5.4 Housekeeping
6 Chemical Procurement,
Distribution and Storage
6.1 Ordering and
procurement:
6.2 Stockroom:
6.3 Distribution:
7 Disposal of Chemical Waste
7.1 Segregation
of chemical waste based on hazard level
7.2 Disposal
of non-sewer or non-Landfill Chemical Waste
8 Unattended Operations
9 Working Alone
10 Standard Laboratory
Safe Handling
10.1 Prudent planning and
techniques for safe handling of chemicals.
10.2 Working with Allergens
and Embryotoxins
10.2.1 Supplemental
Safe Handling Rules:
10.3 Working with
Chemicals of Moderate Chronic or High Acute Toxicity
10.4 Working with Chemicals of High
Chronic Toxicity
10.5 Animal Work with Chemicals of High
Chronic Toxicity
10.6 Compressed Gases General
Handling Procedures:
10.7 Reduction of exposure to
physical injury.
10.7.1 Supplemental
safety rules follow to reduce the exposure to physical injury
10.7.2 Supplemental Safety Rules for
Flammable Chemicals:
10.7.3 Supplemental
Safety Rules for Explosives, Highly Reactive Chemicals and Oxidizers
10.7.4 Safe Handling Procedures
for Highly Reactive Chemicals:
11 Environmental Monitoring
12 Selected Standard
Emergency Procedure
12.1 Chemical Spill Emergency
Procedures
12.2 Non-emergency
chemical spills (low hazard level spills)
12.3 Chemical contact with the eyes:
12.4 Ingestion of chemicals
12.5 Skin contact by chemicals over a
larger portion of the body:
12.6 Inhalation of chemical vapors or
smoke:
12.7 Fire Emergency Procedures
13 Laboratory-Specific Standard Operating Procedures
14 Management and
Maintenance of Fume Hoods and Other Protective Equipment
14.1 Monitoring Safety
Equipment
14.2 Maintenance
14.3 Training
14.4 New Systems
15 Employee Information and
Training
15.1 Information
15.1.1 The contents of the OSHA standard
15.1.2 The Biology Department Chemical
Hygiene Plan
15.1.3 The Permissible Exposure Limits
(PEL)
15.1.4 Signs and symptoms
associated with exposures
15.1.5 Material safety data sheets
(MSDS)
15.1.6 Information on
chemical waste disposal
15.2 Training
15.2.1 Methods of detecting the
presence of hazardous chemicals
15.2.2 Physical
and Health Hazards of Chemicals
15.2.3 Good laboratory practice
15.2.3.1 Description
of information available
15.2.4 Emergency response
actions
15.2.5 Applicable details of
the departmental Chemical Hygiene Plan
15.2.6 An introduction to
the Hazardous Chemical Waste Management
16 Required
Approvals/Notification
16.1 Pre-approval of the use of
dangerous chemicals
16.2 Notification of the use
of Moderate-High Chronic Toxicity and High Acute Toxicity Chemicals
17 Medical Consultation and
Examination
17.1 All employees who work with
hazardous chemicals
17.1.1 Whenever an employee
develops signs or symptoms
17.1.2 Where
exposure monitoring reveals an exposure levl routinely above
17.1.3 Whenever an event takes
place in the work area
17.2 Medical examinations and
consultations
17.3 The College/University will
provide the examining physician with the following information:
17.4 The examining physician
report
18 Record keeping, Review and
Update of Chemical Hygiene Plan
18.1 Record keeping
18.1.1 Exposure evaluation
18.1.2 Medical consultation
and examination
18.1.3 Training
18.1.4 Fume hood monitoring
18.1.5 Inventory and usage records
for high-risk substances
18.2 Review and Update of Chemical
Hygiene Plan Review and Update of Chemical
Hygiene Plan
Table A: Select Carcinogens; Chemicals with Extreme Acute
or Chronic Health Hazard Ratings; Neurotoxins, Teratogens and Mutagens that have been
documented in the CSB/SJU Biology Department.
Table A-1: Select Carcinogens
in the CSB/SJU Biology Department
Table A-2 Chemicals with Extreme
Acute Health Ratings or Extreme Chronic Health Ratings (Level 4) in the CSB/SJU Biology
Department
Table A-3: Embryotoxins,
Neurotoxins, Teratogens, and Mutagens in the CSB/SJU Biology Department
Table B Peroxide-forming chemicals and extreme explosives
documented in the CSB/SJU Biology Department
Table C Incompatible chemicals documented in the CSB/SJU
Biology Department
Table D. Selected general lists of very hazardous chemicals in
laboratories
Table D1 Poisonous Gases
Table D-2 Shock Sensitive Chemicals
Table D-3 Pyrophoric Chemicals
Table D-4 Peroxide-Forming Chemicals
Table D-5 Carcinogens, Reproductive Toxins or
Highly Toxic Chemicals
Table E: University of Minnesota's Chemical Hygiene Plan Toxicity Data for
Regulated Chemicals (Hard copy available in NSC130)
Glossary
Appendix A: 29 CFR 1910.1450 - Occupational
Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals in Laboratories
Appendix B: Assignment of HMIS Ratings
Appendix C: Hazardous Waste Management and
Disposal
Appendix D: Environmental Monitoring of Chemicals
in the CSB/SJU Biology Department
Appendix E: CSB/SJU Biology Department CHP Forms
Appendix F: Laboratory Specific Standard Operating
Procedures
Appendix G: Chemical Hygiene Training Script