Lab Management
This page contains information and resources to manage Health and Safety in the Trace Metals in Medicine Laboratory
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Forms
- Risk Assessment (RA) Forms
- Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
- Standard Operating Procedures
- Service Records for EquipmentLink opens in a new window
- QuEMIS management
- Training Certificates (limited access)
- Local information about Training Records
- General Hazard Assessments by room (F012a/b/c and F013/13a)
1. Current COSHH and Hazardous Substance Assessment Forms
Assessor: Kelsey Cremin
- F012a_Cell_Culture_Hazardous_Substance_Assessment version 23.06.2021
Assessor: Festus Slade
- COSHH-paraCEST Co2+ complexes Created 24.09.21
- COSHH-NAD-biosynthesis-pathway-precursors-and-metabolitesLink opens in a new window Created 03.05.2021
- COSHH-Preparation of 5,6 dihydrouracilLink opens in a new window Created 01.04.2021
Assessor: James Everett
- COSHH-sodium-phosphotungstateLink opens in a new window Created 10.11.2016, latest review 11.05.2021
Assessor: Jierong Luo
- COSHH-iron-containing-agarose-gels-for-use-as-MRI-phantoms-EDTA Link opens in a new window Created 13.07.2020
Assessor: Jake Brooks
- COSHH-1536-Fontana-Masson-staining (word version) Created 15.01.2019, latest review 11.05.2021
Assessor: Frederik Lermyte
- COSHH-1789-hydroxylamine-hydrochloride-as-a-reducing-agentLink opens in a new window Created 22.11.2017, latest review 11.05.2021
- COSHH-2134-incubation-of-amyloidogenic-peptidesLink opens in a new window Created 22.01.2019, latest review 11.05.2021
Assessor: Vindy Tjendana-Tjhin
- COSHH-chloroform Created 15.03.2015, latest review 11.05.2021
Assessor: Joanna Collingwood
- COSHH-1105-use-of-sodium-azide-and-chelators-in-buffer-solutionLink opens in a new window Created 31.07.2014, latest review 11.05.2021
- Acid washing laboratory equipment in dilute HCl latest review 20.01.2023
Assessor: Jake Brooks - Staining biological material with histochemical stains Latest review 20.01.2023
Assesor: Jake Brooks
2. Risk Assessment Forms
COVID reopening SoE-approved RAs
- F012a_and_F012c_COVID-RA updated by Joanna Collingwood and approved by Ian Rose Nov 2020
- F012b_COVID-RA by Joanna Collingwood and approved by Ian Rose Jul 2020
- F013_and_F013a_COVID_RA updated by Joanna Collingwood and approved by Ian Rose Nov 2020
General
- F012a_RA_Cell_Culture version by Kelsey Cremin 05.2021
- F012b_RA-Fontana-Masson-stain-risk-assessmentLink opens in a new window original version by Mary Finnegan, adopted by Jake Brooks, latest review 11.05.2021
- F012b_RA-making-up-histological-stainsLink opens in a new window original version by Mary Finnegan, adopted by Jake Brooks, latest review 11.05.2021
- F012b_RA-staining-procedureLink opens in a new window original version by Mary Finnegan, adopted by Jake Brooks, latest review 11.05.2021
- F013a_RA-ultramicrotome-sectioningLink opens in a new window original version by Vindy Tjendana Tjhin 28.10.2016, latest review 11.05.2021
- F013a_Preparing air particulate samples for TEM analysis original version by Ben Wang 17.02.2023
3. Material Safety Data Sheets
For F012a - see Cell Culture team folder hard copy and zipped version here
For F013a/F012b - see shared drive H&S folder and hard copies in F013 folder
4. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Assessor: Kelsey Cremin, reviewed 28.06.2021
F012c SOP for handling liquid nitrogen and cell storage
Assessor: Jake Brooks, reviewed 28.06.2021
F013a SOP for ultramicrotome and knife makerLink opens in a new window
5. Archived proposals to revise with HSO if required in the future
- F013a_RA-reduction-of-amyloid-beta-copper original version by Jane Donnelly 03.02.2020, latest review 11.05.2021
- F012b_RA-making-up-histological-stains with electrical pump filtering original version by Mary Finnegan, adopted by Jake Brooks, latest review 11.05.2021
1. COSHH and RA
The link immediately below contains all the guidance and forms needed to perform a safety assessment for laboratory work. This needs to be done for chemicals before they are ordered, and for experiments before they commence.
FORMS at SoE COSHH and safety pages
2. Chemicals Inventory
New chemicals inventory
We now need to migrate our content to this new template which supports determination of risk based on H codes. This has been done for all areas except the acids in F013a and general chemical storage cupboard in F013a
- F012a inventory all chemicals
- F012b acids
- F012b corrosives/flammables cabinet
- F013a flammables cabinet
- F013a corrosives cabinet
- F013a poisons chest
3. Blue Folder guidelines: QuEMIS hazard assessment, local rules etc.,
5. Checklist
6. Additional guidance