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2002 AIHCE Laboratory Health and Safety Committee Presentations

  Technical Session PF 113
   Forum 230:  Decommissioning Laboratories

Technical Session PF 113 

Arranger and Moderator:  David Lumby Covance Laboratories, Inc., Madison, WI.

• Empirical Data and Modeling of a Flammable Spill in a Chemical Fume Hood Do Not Support the Need for Fire Suppression Within the Chemical Fume Hood. (87) P. Harnett, M. Greenhalgh, COEH, Inc., Ringoes, NJ.
  
• Energy Conversion Project on Campus - Are You Ready? (88) M. Johnson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
  
• Reduction in Repetitive Strain Injuries in a Toxicology Laboratory. (89) D. Lumby, P. Olson, L. Tutaj, Covance, Madison, WI; S. Feeney, Dean Medical Center, Madison, WI.
  
• Solvent Purification in Academic Research Laboratories: A Comparison of Old and New Technologies. (90) K. Dreger, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA; S. Pedersen, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
  
• Derivation of Acceptable Quantities of Hazardous Chemicals for Use and Storage in Research Laboratories. (92) P. Harnett, COEH, Inc., Ringoes, NJ; L. Tatsch, ProLab Solutions, Inc., Ringoes, NJ.
  
• A Review of Quantitative Studies on Laboratory Fume Hood Performance and Its Related Factors – I. Summary of Their Findings. (93) K. Ahn, M. Ellenbecker, S. Woskie, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA; L. DiBerardines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
  
• A Review of Quantitative Studies on Laboratory Fume Hood Performance and Its Related Factors - II. Estimating the Odds Ratios Using Logistic Regression. (94) K. Ahn, M. Ellenbecker, S. Woskie, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA; L. DiBerardinis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Arranger and Moderator: E. Gross, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.

Academic and industrial laboratories use a variety of hazardous materials on a daily basis. Staff are trained to handle them in the safest possible manner. This includes the use of engineering controls (chemical fume hoods, biological safety cabinets, enclosures, etc.), good spill clean-up procedures, and appropriate personal protective equipment. Due to the fast pace of research, with rapidly changing technology, practices or investigators, individual laboratories may undergo renovations, or entire buildings may be demolished to make way for improved facilities. It is at this point that decommissioning of the laboratories needs to take place, to ensure that the renovations or demolition do not release previously used hazardous materials into the environment, thus presenting new problems to the maintenance and construction staff doing the work. This forum will present the best practices and lessons learned from two large and one medium-sized academic laboratory facilities, in the hopes of offering useful information to facilities who might be faced with similar projects, as well as generating an interesting discussion of issues raised.

• 30 Years of Research, Now We're Moving Out, What's Behind that Lab Bench? M. Gray, US PHS (detailed to US EPA), Durham, NC.
• Deconstruction and Reconstruction of MIT's Chemistry Building. B. Foti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
• Navigating Lab Decommissioning (talk)  K. Fout, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

July 23, 2002
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