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General Responsibilities and Lab Cleanup You are responsible for:
The maintenance of your hood (shown below), 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: Wednesday September 14th 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 Fume Hood Assignments
