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From: Frankie Wood-Black <fwoodblack90**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Review of chemicals to be purchased--standard practice?
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 16:38:48 -0500
Reply-To: DCHAS-L <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**MED.CORNELL.EDU>
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Think we should write the stages of these types of programs. When we first did inventories and rolled out hazard communication programs. This was very common. Then as things progressed these were modified. Probably because the was lots of folks that said fine and the programs were over whelmed and the realized that this was not feasible.
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From: Neil Edwards <Neil.Edwards**At_Symbol_Here**LIU.EDU>
Date: 08/05/2016 4:25 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**MED.CORNELL.EDU
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Review of chemicals to be purchased--standard practice?
Janet,
That is absolutely ridiculous. It should be up to the department as to what chemicals to purchase, as long as they are stored and used properly. I suggest sending him the SDS and telling him that you need an answer within two hours because the chemical needs to be ordered today. The SDS that comes with the chemical should be exactly the same as the one you provided before ordering, if you are getting it from the vendor website; so I don't understand why he should be asking for a second copy.
In short, you give someone a little power, and well... you know the rest.
Neil Edwards
Laboratory Manager
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
LIU Post
Brookville, NY 11548-1300
Email: neil.edwards**At_Symbol_Here**liu.edu
From: "Rogers, Janet" <ROGERS**At_Symbol_Here**EDINBORO.EDU<mailto:ROGERS**At_Symbol_Here**EDINBORO.EDU>>
Reply-To: DCHAS-L <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**MED.CORNELL.EDU<mailto:DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**MED.CORNELL.EDU>>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 20:10:56 +0000
To: <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**MED.CORNELL.EDU<mailto:DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**MED.CORNELL.EDU>>
Subject: [DCHAS-L] SDS review of chemicals to be purchased--standard practice?
To All:
Our EH&S officer has decided that we have to send him the SDS for every chemical we are going to purchase so that he can review it before we are allowed to purchase the chemical. Then, he wants us to send him the SDS that came with the chemical.
Is this a standard practice? I can see reviewing SDS for very hazardous substances, but even for chemicals sodium chloride and sodium bicarbonate? I can understand his reviewing the SDS for substances we've never previously used on campus. However, I think he'll drive himself (and us) crazy if he looks over every single SDS every time we make a purchase.
I fought to get the administration to allow us to make purchases with a credit card so we could make purchases shortly before we used chemicals in class. This procedure let us order smaller quantities and has helped us reduce our inventory, since we no longer had to "over purchase", just to guarantee that we would have enough material for our classes should the purchasing paperwork get held up.
Please let me know what level of EH&S scrutiny of chemical purchases is considered standard practice at undergraduate academic institutions.
I look forward to your responses.
Janet Rogers, Ph.D.
Professor
Chemistry Department
Edinboro University
230 Scotland Road
Edinboro, PA 16444
phone: 814.732.1539
e-mail: rogers**At_Symbol_Here**edinboro.edu<mailto:rogers**At_Symbol_Here**edinboro.edu>
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