1. Lab Safety Training – Lenny & Greg Murray (Internal Audit Department)
• 35-40% of lab workers have not had the live lab safety lecture
• This is the responsibility of the safety officers to get your workers into the lecture
• There are a lot of people who have said that they have had the lecture, but there is no record of this.
If they have actually had the training they need to send Lenny an email about it with the approximate date.
If not, they need to attend the lecture.
• They will be re-auditing in about 1-1.5 years and would like to have the levels of compliance be up to at least 95%

2. Lab Inspection Reports

Team 10 – Lyman Lab – Hannah Storrie, Lyman Labs Safety Committee Inspection, Hannah Storrie, chairperson, January 2008
Lyman 32 – Machine Shop
- Inspection tag needed for eye wash
- Satellite accumulation area not allowed in basement
- 2 cylinders tied together

Lyman 31 – Doyle Lab
- generally messy
- beaker of fused metallic waste
- satellite accumulation area not labeled
- map gas cylinders stored on shelf near organic solvents
- refrigerator needs no food label
- gas cylinder secured with rope

Lyman 29
- lecture bottles not properly stored
- solvents/laser dyes stored on floor
- blocked fire extinguisher
- blocked door
- blocked laser safety button
- no goggles

Lyman 24A
- hidden laser shutoff button
- water bottles in lab
- unsecured cylinders
- liquid N2 dewar unsecured
- need goggles at all doors
- electrical panel/safety shutoff blocked

Lyman 24B
- propane cylinders stored next to flammables
- unsecured cylinders

Lyman 24C
- unsecured cylinders

Lyman 27 Lukin Lab
- no laser goggles

Lyman 127 – Silvera lab
- no laser sign

Lyman 130
- blocked electrical panel
- 2 tanks tied together
- sash on fume hood completely closed

Lyman 131
- no storage for chemicals/flammables

Lyman 132
- blocked electrical panel
- leaking vacuum pump
- tanks secured improperly
- blocked access to fuse box with wires

Lyman 128 – Horowitz Lab
- box of flammables improperly stored
- film, chemicals stored in same fridge with food

Lyman 134 – Griener Lab
- improperly secured cylinders
- drinking water in lab

Lyman 230 – Lukin Lab
- door signage needed
- coffee maker in lab
- no goggles
- cylinders improperly secured
- sharps disposal needed

Team 14 – High Energy Physics – Edem Tsikata, Safety Report for the High Energy Physics Lab
The High Energy Physics Lab consists of a machine shop and lab (and storage) space on two floors. The machine shop is supervised by by Steve Sansone.
Machine Shop
- Secondary containment for one for machine oil barrel was inadequate. The volume of liquid exceeded the volume of the secondary container.
- In the welding area, compressed gas tanks could be secured more firmly. There was also small propane tank that was unsecured.
Lab Space (Room 102)
-Class 3A laser was present in room, but there was no door label or warning light.
-Laser goggles not available, but probably were not required (3A laser).
-There was an AIRCLEAN ventilation hood (used to create a dust-free work area); it might benefit from inspection, although it was not being used as a fume hood.
Electronics lab
-Non-food fridge required label.
-Compressed gas cart could tip over, gas tank could be secured more firmly.

Team 11 Safety inspection of ESL 114 (115), 117, 118 (Vlassak lab), March 7, 2008, 11:00, Jim MacArthur-chair, Eric Diebold, Safety officer: Li Han
All rooms need ChemTracker signs
ESL 114 (115): Class 3B laser. Warning signs, but no light. Laser is "never used."
Exposed AC connections to transformers on floor present tripping, shock hazard.
ESL 117: Cardboard box taped to hot plate. Lots of chemicals, including KOH, stored on countertop w/o secondary containment. Nitric acid, KOH, methanol, acetone, etc.,
stored together in non-chemical cabinet. Fumes strong enough to corrode the hinges. These chemicals need to be separated and stored in approved corrosive and flammable cabinets.

3. Lab Inspection Follow-up Reports

• Maxwell-Dworkin – no one at meeting
• McKay 2nd floor – Aizenberg and Westervelt Reps not present
• Jefferson
o Prentiss – Rep not present o Golovchenko – GFI breaker – sink not being used, room not used much either
o Gabriel Lab – double checked cylinders, does have secondary containment for chemicals
• MCZ Basement – Megan must not have found the lab – there are no sharks etc…
• Hoffman 3rd Floor – Reps not present
• McKay 5th Floor
o Weitz Lab – high level of unlabeled samples – reminding group monthly/weekly
o Aziz Lab – welder being stored in that room, other room is being remodeled, getting new certification, cylinders were either hooked down or removed from the lab
• Auguste Lab – emergency contact info put up
• Hansel/Mitchell – no issues
• Edwards – no eyewash stations – plumbing issue, cannot be fixed overnight; fume hood was inspected
• Mooney – all taken care of
• Weitz – 2nd floor – laser lights are being taken care of, meth acid is gone, defrosted the fridge, sticker on the fumehood now
• ESL 17 – cardboard box taped to hot plate, KOH on countertop, no corrosive cabinets

? Question- Was the Stone Lab inspected?

4. EH&S Report
Gordon/McKay and Lise Building Fire Alarm Situation
• Mike is trying to change the fire alarms so that they will ring at both buildings when either of the buildings has an issue so that everyone egresses from both buildings.
• Lenny thinks there should be PA systems in the buildings as well

Amy Johnson sent out a sheet about gas cylinders and storage that everyone should take a look at as well as to inspect their own labs to make sure everything is properly latched down.