[labnetwork] Question on managing requests for new materials...

[A. William (Bill) FLOUNDERS]

All,
I would like to emphasize the significant difference between
inquiries/responses regarding
the Health and Safety aspects VS the Materials Control / Cross
Contamination aspects
of materials processing in our equipment and facilities.

Health and Safety experts are tasked with alerting us to the potential
hazards of
unintentional exposure to the wide range of materials we handle. When a
material
is hazardous, their first (and best) recommendation is "do not process".
We usually do not have the luxury of "just saying no". Therefore, we use
engineering
controls, guidance from our experienced colleagues, and our best judgement
to define
best practice to handle safely. Once we have minimized the risk of staff
exposure, then
we take on the more subtle and complex task of addressing what is the
impact of processing
that material upon all the other processes in our lab.

The Berkely NanoLab has recently developed a new system for categorizing
and tracking
materials in our lab according to four material classifications. I look
forward to describing in
more detail at UGIM 2018.

Sincerely,
Bill Flounders
UC Berkeley




On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Ian Harvey <IRHarvey at eng.utah.edu> wrote:

> Dear Labnetwork Cleanroom Facilities Managers,
>
> One of my favorite labnetwork topics is when folks ask about how to manage
> the wild requests for exotic materials in their facilities.
>
> I wanted to get a sense from trends on Labnetwork and fiddled with it one
> day. (The 2017 point was YTD in July.  This attached graph is not
> publishable data because it was both subjective and quite likely
> incomplete.)
>
> My question is for a quick ("a or b") from cleanroom facilities managers
> and perhaps also an invitation to chat by phone, so that I can pick your
> brains, those of you who either:
>
> a) tap into campus OEHS resources to help manage your Hazmats, HPM-using
> tool design and installation, and new material requests;
>
> or
>
> b) use in-house staff with specific HPM training and expertise that you
> would specifically call a "safety specialist or engineer", with roles
> dominantly outside normal process or tool engineering.
>
> Thank you,
>
> —Ian
>
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>
> Ian R. Harvey, Ph.D.
>
> Associate Director
> Utah Nanofab at the University of Utah
> Cleanroom Fabrication and nanoImaging & Surface Analysis
> 801/585-6162 <(801)%20585-6162> (voicemail)
> www.nanofab.utah.edu
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