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Safety Tips

About

Suggestions on how to use Safety Tips created by the UC Center for Laboratory Safety

Handling Glass

Precautions for inserting a glass rod or tube

Defrosting

Precautions for defrosting freezers

Liquid Nitrogen

Delivery system failure

Sharps

How to dispose of sharps

Dry Ice Danger

Asphyxiation Hazard

 

Solvent Drums

How to dispose of them

Bulk Solvents

Storage Limitations

Nitric Acid

Incidents involving nitric acid

Unknown Chemicals

How to avoid generating them

Mercury Spill

What to do

Bleach

Bleach reactivity and incompatibilities

Isopropanol

Peroxide hazard

Sensitizers

What are they

Fire

Know what to do and where to go before a fire occurs

Report a Fire

What to do when a fire occurs

Fire Doors

Keep them closed!

Security

Protect your chemicals