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Document No.
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Lab Director/Principal Investigator
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Conducted on
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Prepared by
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Location
Training and Documentation
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Up-to-date inventory maintained for all hazardous materials?
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Chemical Safety Data Sheets (SDS) maintained and readily available at all times employees are present?
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Workplace hazard assessment and certification completed?
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Lab workers received institutional safety training (typically provided by Environmental Health and Safety office) and supplemental laboratory-specific safety training for the hazards present in the laboratory?
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Lab workers are familiar with physical and health hazards of chemicals in work area?
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Lab workers able to describe how to detect the presence or release of hazardous materials?
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Lab workers know how to protect themselves and others from effects of hazardous materials?
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Chemical hygiene plan readily available and laboratory workers are familiar with it?
Spill and Emergency Planning
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Lab workers familiar with the fire safety and building evacuation procedures including evacuation routes, nearest fire exits, fire alarm pull stations, and fire extinguishers?
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Emergency procedures and phone numbers clearly posted?
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First aid materials readily available and up-to-date?
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Required "antidotes" or special first aid materials available (e.g., hydrofluoric acid requires calcium gluconate)?
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Spill clean-up materials available and laboratory staff are familiar with their use?
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Safety shower and eyewash station accessible within 10 seconds?
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Safety shower tested and documented within past year?
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Eyewash tested, flushed and documented at least monthly?
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Fire alarm pull stations, strobes, speakers, and fire extinguisher unobstructed and visible?
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Exits clearly marked and unobstructed?
Personal Protection Clothing, Equipment and Engineering Controls
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Personnel wear shoes that fully cover feet and full length clothing to protect legs?
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Long hair, jewelry, lanyards and other loose articles are confined or removed?
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Lab coats of appropriate material available and worn?
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Appropriate gloves available and worn?
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Appropriate types of eye and face protection (e.g., goggles, face shields, etc.) available and worn?
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Appropriate respirators available and used in the laboratory?
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Respirator training, fit testing and medical evaluation completed for respirator users?
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Respirators cleaned, stored and inspected regularly?
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Chemical hood available?
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Chemical hood free of clutter?
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Chemical hood inspected within last 12 months and capable of drawing at least 100 lfpm (or more or less, as designed)?
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Flow indicator is present and working?
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Perchloric acid operations conducted in special wash-down hoods?
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Biological safety cabinet available?
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Biological safety cabinet free of clutter and surfaces are decontaminated?
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Biological safety cabinet certified within last 12 months?
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Mechanical pipetting used, no mouth suction?
Chemical Safety
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Are chemicals used in this area?
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Appropriate labels are found on all containers of hazardous chemicals?
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Containers are in good conditions (e.g., labels intact, metal containers free of rust) are closed when not in use?
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Containers properly segregated by hazard class (e.g., flammables away from oxidizers, acids separate from bases, incompatible acids separated)?
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Storage of chemicals above eye level is avoided?<br>
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Flammable liquids stored in OSHA/NFPA approved cabinets and safety containers?
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Flammable liquids requiring refrigeration stored in either explosion-proof or flammable-resisitant refrigerators and freezers (e.g., no regular refrigerators)?
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Ignition sources avoided when using/storing flammables?
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Corrosives stored in acid cabinets or other appropriate cabinets?
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Peroxide-formers properly labeled and inventory tracked?
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Picric acid sufficiently wet?
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Large containers (4L or greater) stored near the floor?
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Bottle carriers or carts utilized when transporting hazardous chemicals between work areas?
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High hazard chemicals used or stored in lab?
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Proper signs delineate designated areas where high hazard chemicals are used?
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Designated area properly cleaned and decontaminated?
Biological Safety
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Are biological materials used in this area?
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Biological materials are not stored in hallways in unlocked freezers or refrigerators.
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Biohazard signs are posted in labs handling infectious materials (BSL2 and higher).
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Disinfectants are on hand for sanitizing bench tops and treating spills.
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Biological safety cabinets are available as needed?
Radiation Safety
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Are radioactive materials used in this area?
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Are meters calibrated?
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Are all spaces and items used in radioactive materials research labeled correctly?
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Is the radioactive material storage refrigerator or freezer properly labeled?
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Are vials of radioactive materials within a refrigerator or freezer stored in a proper "lock box"?
Compressed and Cryogenic Gas Safety
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Are compressed gas cylinders used in this area?
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Cylinders stored upright and properly secured at all times?
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Cylinder caps properly secured when cylinders are not in use?
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Regulators always used, proper regulators used for the gas type, pressure bled when not in use?
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Cylinders in good condition and clearly marked?
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Flammables stored separately from oxidizers, toxics in secure area, etc.?
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Cylinders of flammable gases stored in ventilated enclosures?
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Cylinders moved on cylinder trucks with regulators removed and caps secured?
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Cylinders of gases with NFPA health hazard rating of 3 or 4 with no physiological warning properties are stored in continuously ventilated enclosures?
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Are cryogenics gases or liquids used in this area?
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Cryogenic gas pressure relief valves in proper working condition?
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Face shields and cryo gloves available for transferring cryogenic liquids?
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Oxygen monitor available in areas with increased likelihood of oxygen-deficient atmosphere?
Equipment and Physical Hazards Safety
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Are equipment safety signs posted and in good condition?
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Are all guards and shields in place and secured?
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Are safe work practices (long hair tied back, no loose clothing, etc.) being adhered to by all equipment users?
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Is equipment in good repair with evidence of proper maintenance?
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Are electrical cords in good condition, out of travel paths, and free of any cracks or breaks in insulation?
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Is proper PPE available and in use by equipment operators?
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Is a tagging system in place to prevent use of damaged equipment?
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Is access to equipment restricted?
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Have all users been trained to operate this equipment?
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Are any additional or new hazards present at or around the equipment?
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Have the new or additional hazards been evaluated and documented and have users been made aware of them?
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Have there been modifications to the equipment?
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Has the equipment been evaluated to determine if new or additional hazards are present?
General Laboratory Safety
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Eating, drinking and smoking prohibited in lab?
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Lab is maintained secure; door is locked when no one is in lab?
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Area conforms to definition of a laboratory?
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Appropriate warning signs posted near lab entrance?
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Unobstructed aisles maintained at least 36 inches wide throughout area?
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Lab benches and work areas free of clutter?
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Shelves and cabinets in good condition?
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Shelves have seismic restraints, e.g., lips or wires?
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Shelves and cabinets secured to walls?
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Storage above eye level minimized and items restrained from falling?
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Refrigerators and freezers clearly labeled "Not for storage of food for human consumption"?
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No storage of food or drink in refrigerators, unless dedicated for such and clearly labeled?
Waste Management
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Wastes are not discarded via trash or drain disposal unless specifically approved by the appropriate institutional authority (e.g., Environmental Health and Safety)?
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Chemical inventory management/ordering system in place and checked before ordering new chemicals?
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Is hazardous chemical waste generated in this area?
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Satellite accumulation area near point of generation?
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Waste containers tightly closed unless actively adding or removing waste?
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Maximum satellite storage area capacity not exceeded (e.g., 55 gallons per hazardous waste stream or 1 quart of acutely hazardous waste)?
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Waste container is marked with the words "Hazardous Waste"?
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Waste containers is marked with full chemical names identifying the contents stored inside (no abbreviations or formulas)?
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Waste containers kept closed except when adding waste?
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Waste containers storing liquid hazardous waste at or near sinks and drains are stored within secondary containers?
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Secondary containment is in good condition (e.g., free of cracks, gaps and impervious to leaks)?
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Is sharps waste (e.g., needles, syringes, scalpel blades, or other instruments that have the potential to cut, puncture, or abrade skin) generated in this area?
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Sharps wastes are immediately discarded into proper puncture-resistant containers?
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Sharps containers are readily available and managed appropriately (e.g., not overfilled)?
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Is biological waste generated in this area?
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Biological waste liquids are decontaminated (if applicable) prior to drain disposal?
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Biological solids discarded as regulated medical waste and autoclaved or disinfected as appropriate?
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Is radioactive waste generated in this area?
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Is mixed waste (e.g., scintillation vials and any other radioactive and hazardous chemical waste mixture) generated in this area and properly managed?
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Are the radioactive waste containers properly labeled?
Additional Comments
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Additional comments/observations: