Standard Operating Procedures
The California Occupational Safety & Health Administration requires written procedures for employees to follow whenever they use chemicals that have health hazards. The written procedures must be capable of protecting the employee from the hazards when followed.
Standard Operating Procedures
The following Standrard Operating Procedures are to be used as guides when writing your own to make your task easier.
- Procedures for Safe Use of Pyrophoric Organolithium Reagents (pdf)
- Procedures for Safe Use of the Bioengineering Lyophilizer (pdf)
- Procedures for Safely Quenching Reactive Metal Still Bottoms (html)
- Video for Working with Pyrophoric Reagents
Additional Resources
- Standard Operating Procedures Examples and Resources
University of Maryland - EH&S Safety Nets
University of California Davis - Lessons Learned & Documents
University of California
Industrial Hygiene & Safety Committee -
Using sodium azide? Check out this guidance:
from University of Hawaii http://www.hawaii.edu/ehso/jabsom/SOP%20Template%20for%20Sodium%20Azide.doc
from Northeastern University http://www.ehs.neu.edu/hazardous_waste/fact_sheets/sodium_azide/