General Responsibilities and Lab Cleanup
You are responsible for:
- The maintenance of your hood, which means the space itself, the Schlenk line, the hivac pump and the cupboards underneath your hood
- The floor area immediately around your hood
- Your bench and desk area
- Those people with a bench bordering on the window are responsible for the bench area in front of the window.
- Specific maintenance tasks are listed below
There will be a general lab cleanup on: Thursday September 1st 2011. Lab clean-up means:
- Making your hood clean and uncluttered
- Checking that the bottles of chemicals/solvents underneath the hood are tidy and in good order
- Cleaning your bench, shelves and cupboards, and clearing them of clutter
- Cleaning and tidying the sink area between benches
- Collecting together any broken glassware for repair or removal
- Cleaning the area in front of the windows to remove cobwebs/dust etc
- Cleaning up/checking things that are your direct responsibility (below)
- Removing RB flasks from fridges/freezers and transferring samples to vials.
- Ensuring your samples in the fridge are properly labelled and are stored in plastic boxes
- Tidying up paper and any other clutter from your desk area
- Sorting any other equipment/glassware either into communal drawers, storage (i.e. labelled boxes) or into someone's private stash
- Sort out any communal crap underneath the sinks
- Identify any problems with equipment (e.g. stirrer hot plates, pumps)
Misc Responsibilities
- Rotary evaporators: Nilupa, Soo, Swapnil, Althea
- TLC Stains: Mingfeng
- TLC chambers/UV lamps (both) plus the in-group balance: Angus
- Ovens: Paul
- Glassblower repairs: Murray
- Fridge defrosting: Anthony
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