From: Lawrence Tirri <larry.tirri**At_Symbol_Here**UNLV.EDU>
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Questions about IFC Control Areas
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 11:43:37 -0700
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
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Dear All, Although I am retired, my former colleagues have turned to me for advice and help, therefore I turn to the collective wisdom of the group.

The campus has been informed that the entity of jurisdiction has adopted the IFC and the campus now has to comply. Campus officials have provided little help in that we can't learn which IFC Year has been adopted, nor can they help with other information about the criteria used to determine or identify a Control Area, or how to manage a compound that falls into two categories.

The only thing we can glean from them is that a Control Area must have Fire Rated Doors that open into a corridor or to the outside.

Questions:
  1. Is this the only criteria used to identify a Control Area? The number of interconnecting labs, and total square footage are irrelevant considerations?
  2. Can the replacement of and installation of Fire Rated Doors between interconnecting labs be considered is viable method to create more Control Areas?
  3. Is the configuration of the HVAC - Chemical Fume Hood - Exhaust Systems relevant to the identification of Control Areas?
Any responses to the list or directly to me will be passed onto my former departmental colleagues. Thanking you in Advance.

Dr. Larry Tirri, Emeritus

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Las Vegas, NV 89154-4003

702-895-4281

larry.tirri**At_Symbol_Here**unlv.edu

"The only two certainties in life are change and death. If we choose to embrace change and become part of the process, we leave behind a legacy that will live on forever, or you may choose the alternative."



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