Re: Laboratory Eating/Drinking Policy

[steve hand <hand@wam.umd.edu>]

Bob:

    According to our Chemical Hygiene Plan, restriction of smoking ,eating , and
drinking or storing food in laboratory areas is recommended only.  It is a
non-mandatory recommendation by the National Research Council .  See Appendix A to
1910.1450


Steve Hand
Radiation Safety
UM
hand@wam.umd.edu

Bob Flood wrote:

> At 10:05 AM 3/30/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >          We are in the process of designing a new research building and in
> >          recent meeting where the lab space was being discussed several PI's
> >          have mentioned the desire to allow eating/drinking at desk spaces
> >          which would be located inside laboratories.
>
> Perhaps I'm missing the point here or maybe my knowledge of chemistry is
> lacking, but it seems to me that, if radioactive material can be
> inadvertently moved to the desk inside the lab, chemicals can, too. Chem
> labs contains all sorts of chemicals that are far more hazardous than the
> quantities of radioactivity used in most labs, and represent not just a
> larger danger but a far more immediate danger, too.
>
> So, my question is: if the lab does NOT use radioactive material, are the
> lab users permitted to eat and drink in the lab?
>
> Bob Flood
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> bflood@slac.stanford.edu
> (650) 926-3793
>
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