<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>All,<br></div><div>I would like to emphasize the significant difference between inquiries/responses regarding <br></div><div>the Health and Safety aspects VS the Materials Control / Cross Contamination aspects<br></div></div></div>of materials processing in our equipment and facilities.<br><br></div>Health and Safety experts are tasked with alerting us to the potential hazards of<br></div>unintentional exposure to the wide range of materials we handle. When a material</div><div>is hazardous, their first (and best) recommendation is "do not process".</div><div>We usually do not have the luxury of "just saying no". Therefore, we use engineering <br></div><div>controls, guidance from our experienced colleagues, and our best judgement to define</div><div>best practice to handle safely. Once we have minimized the risk of staff exposure, then <br></div><div>we take on the more subtle and complex task of addressing what is the impact of processing <br></div><div>that material upon all the other processes in our lab.</div><div><br></div><div>The Berkely NanoLab has recently developed a new system for categorizing and tracking</div><div>materials in our lab according to four material classifications. I look forward to describing in</div><div>more detail at UGIM 2018. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Bill Flounders</div><div>UC Berkeley<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Ian Harvey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:IRHarvey@eng.utah.edu" target="_blank">IRHarvey@eng.utah.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear Labnetwork Cleanroom Facilities Managers,<div><br></div><div>One of my favorite labnetwork topics is when folks ask about how to manage the wild requests for exotic materials in their facilities.</div><div><br></div><div>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.)</div><div><br></div><div><div>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: </div><div><br></div><div>a) tap into campus OEHS resources to help manage your Hazmats, HPM-using tool design and installation, and new material requests;</div><div><br></div><div>or </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div>—Ian</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div></div></div><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><br><div>
<span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="text-indent:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="text-indent:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Ian R. Harvey, Ph.D.<br><br>Associate Director<br></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></span></span></span><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px">Utah Nanofab at the University of Utah</span><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span class="m_3539042373764608129Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-he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