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

VII. Alcohol Dispensing Procedure
Pure Ethyl alcohol is stored in two sealed and locked areas in Salem Hall. The dispensing area is
the solvent room, #20. When you need pint size bottles of 200 proof or 5 gallon containers of 190 proof
(95%) ethyl alcohol for your research or teaching laboratory, please obtain them from that room.
A. Alcohol Use Logbook
When removing ethyl alcohol, please enter the proper information in the “Alcohol Use Logbook”,
which is kept permanently in that room on a shelf just above the alcohol. You must indicate the Date the
alcohol was taken, the amount (in pints of 200 proof or gallons of 190 proof), the alcohol purity (200
proof /100% or 190 proof / 95%), and the professor name under whose authority you are dispensing alcohol
or the teaching lab course number which requires the alcohol.
VIII. OSHA/EPA Inspection Procedure for Salem Hall
The following procedure, provided by the Bowman Gray School of Medicine Environmental
Health Office, will serve as our temporary policy for Chemistry Department OSHA/EPA inspections. A
more detailed listing of recommendations is kept on the next page of the hardcopy of this manual kept in the
stockroom, room # 110.
Call Mr. Scott Frazier [WFU Assistant Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Director] (phone #
4329 or 4224) and alert him to the need for attending the inspection. Ask him to:
a) Bring a loaded camera and tape recorder, if available.
b) Take the inspector only where he/she wishes to go, until further notice from the Chemistry
Department laboratory manager or Faculty member.
c) Call Ms. Donna Hamilton of the Reynolda Campus Legal Dept. (phone # 5967) or the legal
Dept. itself (phone # 6100).
d) Note the location of your Chemical Hygiene Plan, in your lab or on your computer.
e) Follow the Procedure listed on the next page.
f) Recognize that OSHA records for Salem Hall are kept in the chemistry stockroom file cabinet,
top file drawer. Keys to this cabinet are kept in the chemistry office #208 with Mrs. Melissa Doub
(Administrative Assistant, phone # 5325), with Mr. Scott Frazier [WFU Assistant Environmental
Health and Safety (EHS) Director], phone # 4329 or 4224) and with Michael Thompson ( lab
manager of Salem Hall, work phone # 5324, home phone # 896-8615).
A good source of information in the event Mr. Frazier is not available is Michelle Adkins (WFU
Director of Environmental Health and Safety), phone # 5385 (cell 480-8480), or Mr. Frazier‟s equivalent on
the Hawthorne BGSM campus, Mr. Dave Brown, BGSM Director of Environmental Health and Safety,
phone # 716-9375, pager # 806-7921. (Here is more specific contact information for Michelle Adkins,
CHMM, Director of Environmental Health and Safety, adkinsmm@wfu.edu, phone: 336-758-5385,
cell: 336-480-8480, fax: 336-758-3088).
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