Intro Lab Safety Training for Lab Staff

Every staff member engaged in laboratory work with chemicals must have Chemical Hygiene Plan training which conforms carefully to the requirements of the OSHA Laboratory Standard, and also must have PPE training that covers whatever personal protective equipment that they do or might need to use.

That training is the legal responsibility of the supervisor  --  the professor in the case of grad student and most other research staff -- and also the Department for which the staff member works.  Introductory Lab Safety Training for Lab Staff is offered by REM to help Departments and supervisors fulfill their responsibilities for staff training. 

It is not possible (or necessary) for REM to do every bit of this training for all workers for all of their work and time at Purdue.  It is not required that anyone take the REM training unless a Department or supervisor requires it.  Many Departments prefer to require some or all of the REM training.  But it is possible for the REM training to cover all of a worker's immediate chemical safety training requirements if the worker carefully follows the instructions for completing the training and information forms described here:

(1) online independent study in TWO parts; 
(a) "CHP1" -- a fairly in-depth overview of the Chemical Hygiene Plan, and

    (b) "PPE" Personal Protective Equipment training,

(2) a 110-minute small group training session (called "CHP2") which covers, for each worker, the very work area specific hazards of his/her job.  (Sign-up form is below.) 

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You must have completed parts (1)(a) and (1)(b) above and you must be in possession of the printed  confirmation/certification forms for them.  If you do not have (one or the other or both of) them you must return to the form(s), submit, and print it/them.

If you have not completed (1)(a) and (1)(b) before completing the sign-up form below, or if you do not complete and submit the information below carefully, you will not be registered for the session and you will not be permitted to attend. 

If you have completed both (1)(a) and (1)(b), continue down this page.

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The 110-min meeting sessions are held in WTHR 560 unless other arrangements have been made (you would be notified in this case).  The sessions offered at this time appear here, green background cells.  They are often cancelled if no one signs up by 15 days before, and once in a while they are rescheduled if only one person registers.)

Dec 2006
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25	25		13			25
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Jan 2007
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				4
					26
25

Feb 2007
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				8
					25	25

Mar 2007
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Note that the sessions are 110 minutes, and usually fit between scheduled class times.  If you cannot fit any of the shown times into your schedule, please follow the instructions for completing the ScheduleCard below.  Groups of 5 - 10 are ideal, but "groups of one" are not uncommon. 

Provide Information & Sign-Up for 110-min "CHP2 Training" meeting.

Each person is to complete his or her own form, i.e. nobody else is to sign up another person.  The responses provided by the prospective attendee give valuable information to the training meeting instructor which allow some tailoring of the content of the session.  THIS WILL TAKE 10 - 20 minutes to do correctly (after you've done the CHP1 and PPE online parts):  Follow all instructions, complete all of the information requested, and then click on the SUBMIT FORM button at the bottom and print the confirmation page.  NOTE THAT YOU MUST know and communicate quite a bit about the work you will be doing.  Please take the time to provide complete answers.

1. Enter date (mm-dd-yy) on which you last completed the CHP1 online reading exercise (Do not enter a date in the future.)	If it has been more than 6 months since you completed the online exercises, do them again. If it has been <6 mo and you have lost the paperwork and forgotten, send email to request that this information be mailed to you.
2. Enter date (mm-dd-yy) on which you  last completed the PPE online reading exercise or enter NO PPE NEEDED.   (Do not enter a date in the future.)

3. Sign up for: 
(the earliest
time you
are able)

choose Thursday 2/8/07, 2:30 pm - 4:20 pm
Do not sign up for a session you will not attend.

there are no private sessions scheduled at this time.

Private sessions are private.  You'll know if it is for you. 

If you cannot attend any  of the times shown, send email to Paul Bower with a completed Schedule Card attached that shows all your available times for the three weeks starting after the last scheduled time shown here. 
[ScheduleCard.doc] [ScheduleCard.rtf]
(instructions are in document) 

Do not continue with this form until a meeting you can sign up for has been added.

If you are signing up for a meeting that is fewer than five weekdays in the future, (1) REFRESH THIS PAGE to make certain you're not signing up for a class that has been removed, and (2) after signing up send a quick email notification, stating that you have signed up and for which date/time.

4. Your Name:

Exactly as it appears in the Purdue Electronic Directory e.g. Fatemeh Nasreen Olang, or Linda A Swihart

5. Campus Mail
Address: 

All communication will use your alias@purdue.edu address.  If you need to learn how to use or forward from it, contact your department computer staff.

6. Your email address: 

@purdue.edu address and it must be a working address

10. For which building(s) and which room(s) do or will you have Purdue keys?

7. Department:

8. Staff type: 

Choose Staff Class Undergraduate student Graduate student Postdoctoral Faculty Technical A/P Staff none of these

9. Supervisor name: 

Complete information is absolutely necessary for the training; communicate with your supervisor or other lab work mentor(s) for help with answers to the questions below if you do not know.

Print and use this form to collect answers if you need to do so before returning to this form.

Check any and all chemicals, materials, items, procedures... likely to be included in your activities, even just a small percentage of the time. 

	Yes	No			Yes	No
11.			Chemical hood ("fume" hood)	21.			Glassblowing
12.			biosafety cab or other laminar flow cabinet	22.			Carcinogens
13.			Rotary evaporation	23.			Lasers
14.			Pressures below 20 torr	24.			Toxic metals
15.			Pressures above 1.5 atm	25.			Pipetting
16.			Vertebrate animals	26.			Centrifugation
17.			Autoclave	27.			Cryogen(s)
18.			Halogenated solvents	28.			Voltages greater than 220V
19.			Radioisotopes	29.			Human cells, fluids, or tissue
20.			X-ray or higher energy	30.			Other biological agents

Provide chemical names or other complete descriptions of any of the following you will work with (separate with commas).  Write NONE where it is the correct response.

31. compressed gases

32. halogenated solvents

33. flammable liquids

34. other toxic materials

List the most important, most hazardous, most frequent, largest quantity.... hazardous chemicals with which you do work or will work.   Enter all you can think of, up to ten.  Two are required.  (In the fields numbered 35 and 36.)  

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45.  Describe your work or anticipated work with chemicals and equipment somewhat completely and carefully, in such a way as to give a clear impression of it to an intelligent person with a strong science background who does NOT have experience in you field of study.    Also enter any comments, concerns or questions you have:
	After submitting, carefully read the instructions on the Confirmation Page.    CLICK ONE TIME ONLY PLEASE.

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