I am coming from the complete opposite experience. I have worked in one of our two stockrooms for twelve years. For the first eleven years, all faculty had keys to the stockrooms and could access them 24/7. This was a headache for MANY
reasons, but mainly, inventory control cannot exist whatsoever if access is not limited. A chemical that we knew we had on our shelf on Monday would be gone on Tuesday when we came in. We prepared what we needed for teaching labs, and then those items would
be gone when we would need them. Many things that were ordered specifically for teaching labs were taken for research without our knowledge, and it always looked like we weren't doing our jobs because things were missing
every single week.
We moved into a new building last year, and I convinced my boss that this was the perfect opportunity to limit access to stockroom personnel and department chair only. The faculty were very upset by this and took it personally that undergraduate
student workers had more access than they did, but the anger seems to have died down over the past year, and I am finding it much easier to do my job when my students and I are the only ones moving things around. If people need things for research labs, they
have to come ask us for it, and we record where those items are going.
As far as regulations, I am unaware of them, but our EHS and Office of Research Integrity are much happier that I have been able to limit access and chemicals aren't just floating off to who knows where (or disappearing entirely).
Thank you,
Heather Carter
Heather M. Carter
Laboratory Manager
Department of Chemistry, FB 548
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306
Ph: 765-285-8079
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Subject: [NAOSMM] Stockroom Security
Here's a question that I received and would like the feedback and suggestions of the listserv. Thanks ... Jim
I am the lab/stockroom manager for Chemistry and have maintained a secure stockroom now for the past 10 years. We have a new department chair and he wants to give access to all
permanent, visiting, and adjunct faculty. I feel that this is a mistake but have to give evidence to support my reluctance of open access. Is there any regulations that I can quote about securing the stockroom? I know at one time Homeland Security sent an
e-mail to our CPO and other CFOs about securing these areas. Any assistance you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
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