Physics & Astronomy Chemical Safety page
Your Physics and Astronomy Chemical Safety Officers:
1) For the Main Building at Yale and Lomas (# 207), the Campus Observatory
(# 208), the Warehouse (# 223), and Capilla Peak Observatory (# 402) (5
Buildings), the Chemical Safety Officer is Elliott
Bailey (277-4447, Room 118/120, Building # 207).
2) For Regener Hall (# 35) the Chemical Safety Officer is Bill
Miller (277-5805, Room 113, Building # 35)
NOTES: 1) Application of cosmetics in areas where chemicals are present is considered equivalent to eating or drinking in those areas. 2) ALWAYS wash your hands after using ANY Chemicals. 3) ALWAYS confine long hair and loose clothing while using or handling chemicals.
Storage, categories, and policies (UNM SHEA) for all chemicals
HAZMAT (Hazardous Materials) information (Shipping and Receiving of):
Detailed information sheets (links):
List of Rooms
in Building # 207 requiring Chemical Safety inspections, postings, training,
labeling, and storage instructions.
What
are, and what to do with Chemical WASTES or items to be disposed of.
What
should I know about containers?
Who
is responsible?
Where do
I get labels, containers, and information or answers to questions?
Training
requirements and suggestions
What to do
if a chemical spill occurs
What about PPE
(Personal Protective Equipment)?
What if
I suffer physical contact with a chemical?
Where,
when can I or can I not, eat, drink, or smoke, near or around chemicals,
or in laboratories?
Refrigerators,
Freezers, Microwave Ovens, your chemicals and your foods
Use and
storage of FLAMMABLE chemicals
Use
and storage of ACIDS and OXIDIZERS
Chemical labeling:
Most chemicals utilized at the University will be in the original container
with the manufacturer’s label intact. However,
when a chemical is transferred from one container to another, a special,
color coded label, available in most labs or from Elliott Bailey in Room
118 must be affixed to the secondary container. The chemical name, manufacturer
and date must be listed on the label, as well as the type, and degree,
of hazard (number inside of check boxes). Click below for pictures of the
labels and how to fill them out.
Chemical labeling
guidelines and label samples
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
All laboratories, storage rooms, or offices which
have ANY chemicals used or stored in them are subject to the SHEA rules
and regulations concerning chemicals. If an item is produced with an MSDS
sheet by its manufacturer, then it falls under these guidelines, should
have an MSDS sheet listed in our records, and SHEA is to be notified of
its existence in our building(s), and it is to be published on a list of
chemicals (Chemical Inventory) on the inside of the door to the room it
is being used or stored in. The Chemical Safety Officer shall be notified
of any new chemicals introduced to any rooms under his/her jurisdiction,
and of any removed from rooms, and where, and how, they were disposed of.
There are also specified SHEA forms for the disposal of any and all waste
chemicals which can be acquired from the Safety Officer(s).
Department
of Physics and Astronomy MSDS Sheets
(Most of the actual MSDS sheets are in the 4 Drawer File Cabinet in
the SW corner of Room 190)
People
Faculty