Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:21:11 -0500
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From: Kim Auletta <kauletta**At_Symbol_Here**NOTES.CC.SUNYSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: Setting Up Spill Kits...
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We use the universal pads. I'm particularly fond of the New Pig Corp 
material. The only specific spill material I recommend is the Spill-x or 
similar material for formaldehyde (cuts the odor almost immediately, but 
still haz waste), HF (most universal pads won't touch this) and corn 
oil/vermiculite or kitty litter for osmium tetroxide. 

We've been trying out a new product: Green Stuff Absorbent, that the labs 
seems to like/ www.greenstuffabsorbent.com

Kim Auletta
Lab Safety Specialist
EH&S    Z=6200
Stony Brook University
kauletta**At_Symbol_Here**notes.cc.sunysb.edu
631-632-3032
EH&S Web site: http://www.stonybrook.edu/ehs/lab/

Remember to wash your hands!


From:
Margaret Rakas 
To:
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Date:
11/10/2009 04:47 PM
Subject:
[DCHAS-L] Setting Up Spill Kits...
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Hi,

We're setting up a new 'wet' science building and while we have 'spill 
kits' here, I would like to find out what others find useful to keep on 
hand and deal with:

1) Small (1 gallon or less) solvent spills --acetone, ethanol, the like

2) Acid/base spills

I am particularly interested whether you have chosen to go with the 
'universal' sorbent pads OR instead use a powder that (at least in the 
case of acid/base spills) neutralizes.  I can see the benefit from a 
powder for flammable spills--there isn't the issue of packaging a 
solvent-soaked combustible pad for safety, until the next lab pack--but I 
would think that using a neutralizing agent pretty much means the vapors 
are going to lead you into respirator use. 

Any products or methods you've loved, please let me know!
Many thanks,
Margaret

Margaret A. Rakas, Ph.D.
Manager, Inventory & Regulatory Affairs
Clark Science Center
Smith College
Northampton, MA. 01063
p:  413-585-3877
f:   413-585-3786 



We use the universal pads. I'm particularly fond of the New Pig Corp material. The only specific spill material I recommend is the Spill-x or similar material for formaldehyde (cuts the odor almost immediately, but still haz waste), HF (most universal pads won't touch this) and corn oil/vermiculite or kitty litter for osmium tetroxide.

We've been trying out a new product: Green Stuff Absorbent, that the labs seems to like/ www.greenstuffabsorbent.com

Kim Auletta
Lab Safety Specialist
EH&S    Z=6200
Stony Brook University
kauletta**At_Symbol_Here**notes.cc.sunysb.edu
631-632-3032
EH&S Web site:
http://www.stonybrook.edu/ehs/lab/

Remember to wash your hands!


From: Margaret Rakas <mrakas**At_Symbol_Here**SMITH.EDU>
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**LIST.UVM.EDU
Date: 11/10/2009 04:47 PM
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Setting Up Spill Kits...
Sent by: DCHAS-L Discussion List <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**LIST.UVM.EDU>



Hi,

We're setting up a new 'wet' science building and while we have 'spill kits' here, I would like to find out what others find useful to keep on hand and deal with:

1) Small (1 gallon or less) solvent spills --acetone, ethanol, the like

2) Acid/base spills

I am particularly interested whether you have chosen to go with the 'universal' sorbent pads OR instead use a powder that (at least in the case of acid/base spills) neutralizes.  I can see the benefit from a powder for flammable spills--there isn't the issue of packaging a solvent-soaked combustible pad for safety, until the next lab pack--but I would think that using a neutralizing agent pretty much means the vapors are going to lead you into respirator use.  

Any products or methods you've loved, please let me know!
Many thanks,
Margaret


Margaret A. Rakas, Ph.D.
Manager, Inventory & Regulatory Affairs
Clark Science Center
Smith College
Northampton, MA. 01063
p:  413-585-3877
f:   413-585-3786

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