Dai Lab SOS representative responsibilities
1) Once identified as SOS representative, register for SOS representative training at www.uclc.uci.edu and complete the training
2) Determine your work environment and complete the Hazard Identification Checklist
3) Participate in work unit specific training (Dai lab Hazardous Identification Checklist). Identify all lab members and ensure their participation in work unit specific training. Each lab member must read, understand and sign this document. Check for their signature.
4) Participate in lab specific PPE Assessment Tool training. Identify all lab members and ensure their participation in lab specific PPE Assessment Tool training. Each lab member must read, understand and sign this document. Check for their signature.
5) Identify all lab members and ensure they complete safety training self-assessment and EH&S required training at www.uclc.uci.edu. Each lab member should provide a copy of their training analysis to show they have completed their required training.
As a guide, most people in the lab choose the following as part of completing their self-assessment:
animal handler (if you work with mouse)
blood/tissue/body fluids
computer use (frequent)
formaldehyde
hazardous chemicals
hazardous waste
laboratory research (chem, rad, bio)
viral vector (if you work in TC with viral vectors)
6) Ensure all lab members are registered and completed “Bloodborne Pathogens” online course. For those who work with tissue culture, ensure they read, understand and sign “Bloodborne Pathogens and Aerosol Transmissible Diseases” Exposure Control Plan document. For those who work with virus vectors, ensure they read, understand and sign “Viral Vector Work (retrovirus/lentivirus/adenovirus)” SOP
7) Ensure all lab members have completed LHAT (Lab Hazard Assessment Tool)
8) Get acquainted with the Laboratory Safety Manual & Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP). Track inventory of your hazardous materials and in CiBR-Trac system at least annually.
9) All hazardous materials and processes require written Standard Operating Procedures. Review each procedure with lab workers and ensure they have read, understood, and signed each SOP.
Note: the list of SOP for hazardous materials need to be updated based on new experimental designs and procedures that might incorporate new hazardous material which requires new SOPs. You can find a list of all SOPs that other labs in the department have developed in the department’s website.
10) Learn how to manage your chemical and biological waste. We currently have following hazardous wastes:
- Liquid waste – mixture of 5 chemicals
- Liquid waste – mixture of 3 chemicals
- Liquid waste – Methanol
- Solid waste – mixture of 5 chemicals
- Solid waste – Ethidium bromide
- Sharps (biological waste)
Note: Hazardous wastes need to be disposed through EH&S by filling out a form online available on “chemical waste collection” webpage. Please remember that Ethidium Bromide liquid waste must to be filtered. There is no need to dispose of it through EH&S
11) Ensure that all lab members have read and understood “UCI Emergency Procedure” chart (the blue chart currently located by the phone)
12) Ensure that all lab members know emergency management plan and primary evacuation assembly area which is grassy area between Med Sci D building and Gottschalk Plaza (parking lot 80)
13) Ensure that all lab members are aware of how to report a safety concern, and what to do during hazardous materials incidents. Report all incidents, injuries, safety related incidents or concerns within 24 hours