Guidelines for care & Use of Dry Solvent Stills [Example]

B. Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP) for Freshman Chemistry Labs
First semester Students of Freshman Chemistry Lab 111L receive the following audio-visual and
printed information, in addition to safety discussions from the departmental laboratory manager and
instructors:
� Video Audio-Visual Program from American Chemical Society, “Starting With Safety: An
Introduction for the Academic Chemistry Laboratory”, covering the following topics;
a) Handling Chemicals Safely
b) Bunsen Burners and Glassware Safety
c) Thermometer Safety
d) Glass Tubing Safety
e) Centrifuge Safety
f) Dressing for Safety
g) Behavior in the Laboratory
h) Emergency Equipment
A copy of the manual of the text of this film is kept near the Undergraduate Laboratory CHP in the
stockroom, room #110.
� A Chemistry Department Emergency Information sheet with all emergency phone numbers needed by
injured students, reproduced on page 6 of this manual. This sheet is posted near all laboratory phones
in the building, including the stockroom emergency phone.
� Instructor‟s hand-out information on laboratory check-in, which includes remarks concerning the
Additional Safety Sheet (see next page), which is also handed out to each student. This sheet, titled
“Additional Safety Information, Freshman Chemistry Labs”, includes a brief introduction to National
Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) and HMIS symbols, color codes, and hazard ratings, which appear in
many manufacturers‟ labels on chemical containers. Material Safety Data Sheets are also introduced.
When the audio-visual presentation and discussions are finished, the students must all sign the Wake Forest
University Hazard Communication Training Log form. Throughout the semester, students are required to
wear safety glasses/goggles/or side shields and obtain gloves from the stockroom window when hazardous
chemicals are used for a particular experiment.
Chemical preparation personnel (usually an assigned graduate student) for Freshman Chemistry
Labs must follow the same safety procedures listed above, and are to regard the General Chemistry CHP as
their own CHP for prep work done in room #103. In addition, they will have read the Departmental
Chemical Waste manual and will prepare chemical waste containers for the freshman labs. During the
safety film students are told that their teacher (or graduate student teaching assistant) will be handling the
chemical waste generated in these labs.
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