<div dir="ltr">Hello Ron, and all,<div><br></div><div>We are also in planning mode at Michigan and waiting for the go ahead and likely recommendations/restrictions from our state and university officials (as of now, our current stay at home order is effective until 4/30). We're looking at different sequential stages:</div><div>1- replenishing our stock of supplies (most were donated to the hospital, so we need to make sure we have enough before we move to the next phase)</div><div>2- staff only, bringing facilities and tools back online</div><div>3- authorized/independent users only (no training)</div><div>4- all users</div><div><br></div><div>During all of these phases, we are planning for updated protocols that will be different from our "old" (pre-COVID - which feels such a long time ago....) operation model.</div><div>- additional cleaning, both outside of the lab (where no PPE is worn) and inside of the lab</div><div>- updated gowning protocols (face masks required even in our "class 10,000" space, double gloving mandatory, garment bags and safety glasses not shared among lab users, or heavily cleaned between usage)</div><div>- increased air exchanges
and prefilters added before our HEPA filters
in gowning area .</div><div>- social distancing protocols (hence the "no training" in phase 3) </div><div> * limiting the number of people in the gowning area at the same time</div><div> * showing our users the schedule for tools that are in close proximity and having guidelines about maximum number of people for each physical area - for now, we are looking at relying on users following protocols (rather than hard restrictions from our lab management or access control system).<br></div><div> * enhancing our training methods so that they rely less on close proximity (we already have wiki pages and SOPs for all tools, and online quizzes for a few, but we're looking at developing this further, and including video training if possible - we don't yet have any of these).</div><div> * limiting onsite staff presence (at least initially) with rotation between two teams, possibly increasing air exchanges in office areas too.</div><div><br></div><div>It's definitely still a work in progress - looking forward to hearing about other ideas from the rest of you!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Sandrine</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:50 AM Reger, Ronald K <<a href="mailto:rreger@purdue.edu" target="_blank">rreger@purdue.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here at Purdue for the last 3 weeks we have severely curtailed our research efforts at the Birck Nanotechnology Center due to the pandemic, to the point that only a fraction of our facility is being used for projects deemed critical (related
to COVID-19 or national interest). We are preparing to ramp back up once the stay-at-home orders are lifted and this ramp-up presents some unique challenges. We’re anticipating potential delays in orders from suppliers as they ramp up and we expect that
social distancing will still be the norm so process & equipment training will need to be handled differently. We’re just now starting to plan for returning to a full research operation and we’re wondering if you all are developing similar plans? It would
be great if we could share some thoughts and ideas in our community.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks very much,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft PhagsPa",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Ron Reger<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Birck Nanotechnology Center | Room 2289 |<b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p>
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