Equipment / Chemical |
Identified Hazard |
Risk Ass'ment |
Risk Control Measures / Procedure Location |
Antibiotics |
Exposure to toxic chemicals |
Medium |
Antibiotics locked up
Biochemistry Safety Document / Authorisation
Material Safety Data Sheets |
Autoclaves: High pressure and high temperature vessel |
Burns |
Medium |
Autoclave Procedures training and authorisation
Biochemistry Safety Web-site
User log books |
Bench top electrical appliances (eg water baths, vortexes, orbital shakers, etc.) |
Physical injury
Electrocution |
Low
Low |
Operating manuals |
Biological Chemicals |
Exposure to AQIS biologicals
|
Low |
Biochemistry Safety Document/Authorisation
Personal Protective Equipment |
Centrifuge (Low, high & ultra speed) |
Physical injury |
Medium |
Biochemistry Safety Document / Authorisation
Biochemistry Safety Manual
Operating manual |
Computer Work |
Exposure to eye, arm, wrist, neck and back pain |
Medium |
Work Station Assessment and RUO to assess possible solutions involving training and workstation modifications |
Ethidium Bromide |
Exposure to Toxic Chemicals
|
Medium |
Scheduled poisons locked up
Biochemistry Safety Document/Authorisation
Material Safety Data Sheet |
Electrophoresis equipment |
Electrocution |
Low |
Biochemistry Safety Document/Authorisation
Safety interlocks |
FPLC/HPLC |
Exposure to Toxic Substances
|
Low |
Biochemistry Safety Document/Authorisation
Material Safety Data Sheet
Personal Protective Equipment |
Fluorescent Imager |
Laser may produce eye injury |
Low |
Don't open lid while scanning |
Freeze Drier |
Vacuum hazard, glass implosion
Exposure to toxic chemicals |
Medium
Low |
Biochemistry Safety Document / Authorisation
Personal Protective Equipment
Regular Maintenance of Vacuum Pump and Vacuum trap |
Freezers |
Cold Burns |
Low |
None |
Fume Hood |
Noise from fume hood |
Medium |
|
Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer |
Electrical
Gas pressurised system
Chemical exposure |
Low |
Biochemistry Safety Document / Authorisation
Safety Document / Authorisation |
Gas cylinders |
Gas pressurised system
Manual handling
|
Low
Medium |
Biochemistry Safety Document/Authorisation
Biochemistry Safety Manual
Gas cylinders relocated |
Gel Drier |
High Temperature |
Low |
None |
Glass house maintenance |
Sunburn
Exposure to chemicals (pesticides, herbicides) |
Low |
Sunscreen supplied
Spraying procedures: maintenance records for PPE, log book. Material Safety Data Sheets for pesticides |
Handling of flammable gas, liquids, and solids |
Fire, explosion |
Medium |
Biochemistry Safety Document / Authorisation
Safety Document / Authorisation
Material Safety Data Sheets for flammables |
Handling of Glass |
Laceration
Manual Handling |
Low
Low |
Training
Biochemistry Safety Manual
Small, regular clearance |
Handling of infective Agents |
Contamination, infection
|
Low |
Biochemistry Safety Document/Authorisation
Biochemistry Safety Manual |
Handling of sharps |
Lacerations |
Low |
Training, Sharps containers |
Liquid Nitrogen Use |
Cold Burns
|
Medium |
Biochemistry Safety Document/Authorisation
Biochemistry Safety manual
Material Safety Data Sheet |
Microwave Oven |
High Temperature
|
Low |
Operating Manual |
Ovens, Incubators, Hotplates |
High temperature
Electrical |
Low |
Biochemistry Safety Document / Authorisation
Safety Document / Authorisation |
Radioactive material usage |
Exposure to radiation by operator and others in lab
Creation of radioactive waste |
Medium
Low |
Radiation Procedures training and authorisation
Waste procedures in Induction/Safe Procedures document |
Rotary Evaporator |
Vacuum hazards
Exposure to toxic chemicals |
Low |
Biochemistry Safety Document / Authorisation
Safety Document / Authorisation Operating Manual |
Scheduled poisons |
Exposure to toxic chemicals |
Medium |
Scheduled poisons locked up
Biochemistry Safety Document / Authorisation
Safety Document / Authorisation
Material Safety Data Sheets |
Scintillation Counting |
Radioactive Chemicals
Toxic chemicals
Electrocution |
Low |
Biochemistry Safety Document Authorisation
Operating Manual
Personal Protective Equipment |
Snap freezing of tissue samples (see Liquid Nitrogen Use ) |
Cold burns |
Medium |
Biochemistry Safety Document / Authorisation
Safety Document / Authorisation
Material Safety Data Sheets for cryogenics
|
Sonicator |
High frequency hazard |
Low |
Biochemistry Safety Document / Authorisation
Safety Document / Authorisation Operating Manual
|
Spectrophotometers |
Exposure to chemical hazards
Use of UV light |
Low |
Material Safety Data Sheets
Biochemistry Safety Document / Authorisation Safety Document / Authorisation Operating Manual
|
Speed Vac Concentrator |
Vacuum hazards |
Low |
Biochemistry Safety Document / Authorisation
Safety Document / Authorisation Operating Manual |
Tissue culture
|
Burns, ignition
Eye injury |
Low
Low
|
Biochemistry Safety Document / Authorisation
Safety Document / Authorisation |
Toxic chemicals |
Exposure to toxic chemicals
|
Low |
Biochemistry Safety Document/Authorisation
Medical Safety Data Sheet
Personal Protective Equipment |
UV transilluminator |
Burns, Eye injury |
High |
Safety Switch on the instrument
Incorporated into the Induction Document
Personal Protective Equipment |
Water Usage |
Environmental
|
|
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