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Safety Practices
A safety representative from your facility must ensure that there are
established safety practices and policies to protect laboratory person
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nel from potential hazards.
Required Safety
Equipment
Your laboratory should have specific safety devices and equipment to
protect personnel from any sources of hazardous chemicals, radiation
(for example, lasers, radioisotopes, radioactive wastes, and contami
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nated equipment), and potentially infectious biological material that
may be present in the area where the Pacific Biosciences service rep
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resentative will work.
The following safety protection and equipment must be available at the
installation site:
• Appropriate fire extinguisher:
– The types and sizes of fire extinguishers shall be suitable for use on
electrical and chemical fires as specified in current codes, regulations/
or standards, and with approval of the Fire Marshall or other authority
having jurisdiction.
– The installation of appropriate fire extinguishers shall be in addition to
other fire-protection systems and not as a substitute or alternative to
them.
– Overhead sprinklers can be used if the water heads are not located
above or directed at the equipment or it’s fan intake/exhasut path.
• Eyewash.
• Safety shower.
• Eye and hand protection.
• Adequate ventilation, including vent line/fume hood, if applicable.
• Biohazard waste container, if applicable.
• First-aid equipment.
• Spill cleanup equipment.
• Applicable SDS.
Personnel Safety
Considerations
Facility personnel (especially laboratory personnel) should be familiar
with the emergency power shut-down procedure and with how to notify
the fire department.
Laboratory personnel are adequately protected from electrical shock,
however, all personnel trained in first aid for electrical shock and burns
should always be available.
Unauthorized personnel should not remove any of the system’s pan-
els. The panels are provided for system cooling and protection of elec-
tronics.
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