[Histonet] ventilation and exposure

[Liz Chlipala]

Curt

We fill our bottles in the hood.  They are emptied into a vented
flammable cabinet that contains a 55 gallon drum.  You know you can do
your own chemical badges for both xylene and formalin.  I like to run a
couple TWA (8 hour) exposures and then I badge a lot of STEL (15
minutes) exposures on what I think are worse case scenarios or where I
think individuals have exposure for a short period of time, like
changing the tissue processor, or loading the tissue processor, changing
the stainer, manually coverslipping, grossing in tissues, etc.  

If you are a small business OSHA has support services.  They will come
to your lab and perform an audit and review your safety practices (non
punitive) and give you a report where they think you can improve.  It
was helpful to us.

Liz

Elizabeth A. Chlipala, BS, HTL(ASCP)QIHC
Manager
Premier Laboratory, LLC
PO Box 18592
Boulder, Colorado 80308
office (303) 682-3949 
fax (303) 682-9060
www.premierlab.com
 
 
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[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Curt
Tague
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 10:23 AM
To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] ventilation and exposure

Yesterday I asked for some direction on ventilation firms to evaluate my
lab
and the fumes. I think I've got some decent leads but I have another
quick
question, does any change the processor bottles, formalin, alcohols,
xylem/subs, inside a ventilated hood?

 

Thank for your input,

 

Curt 

 

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