Liu Group Safety Guidance

Liu Group Safety Documents

• Group Chemical Hygiene Plan
• Instrument Operation Guidance and Group documents (internal use only)
• GHS Pictograms by USU EH&S
• Safety guidance page of the department

External Safety Videos

• "Experimenting with Danger". 

Think about lab safety and please first check out this Youtube video created by U.S Chemical Safety Board, CSB, covering several most representative tragedies in laboratories. 

(a) UCLA graduate student, Sheri Sangji, 23 years old, died (01/16/2009) from the burning (12/29/2008) of ter-butyl   lithium(LitBu). ("Learning from UCLA" by C&EN)

(b) Chemistry Professor Karen Wetterhahn lost her life several months after an accidence of exposure to toxic dimethyl mecury, Hg(CH3)2 happened on 08/14/1996. (see Wikipedia message)

(c) A graduate student from Texas Tech. Uni. lost fingers in the handling of a high-energy metal compound, a derivative of nickel hydrazine perchlorate, which suddenly detonated in 01/07/2010. (see more on CSB's investigation report)

Working with pyrophoric chemicals and metals-UCSD:          
          (a) Getting ready (including how to use Schlenk line)
         (b) Transfer pyrophoric liquids
         (c) Working with reactive metals

• Handling Pyrophoric Materials - Dartmouth College

• Dow Lab Safety Academy

• C&EN Lab Safety Videos List

• UCSD Lab Safety Videos

Work with fire extinguisher

• Fire Extinguisher Training (Oklahoma State)
• How to Use a Portable fire Extinguisher (Fire Equipment Manufacturers’ Association)

External Safety Links

• Lab Safety Institute. Making Health, Safety and the Environment an Integral and Important Part of Education, Work, and Life. Please see "Lab Safety Memorial Wall".