Dear Colleagues,
recently, we had a smoke incidents in our solid state NMR room
originating from some roof work done on our roof. No harm done overall
and the responses were very professionally, but there were a few things
we learned to prepare for a possibly more serious incident. These might
be of interest for you to consider:
- Put warning signs on the inside of the doors! When the firemen and
fire woman arrived our doors stood open and all signs were covered up.
We were there, so everything turned out well, but one could imagine
otherwise.
- Have a manual switch to turn on the exhaust fans. Mine were only
operated by the oxygen sensors (sigh!) and the central facilities
management. So I wheeled in liquid nitrogen and used the exhaust gas to
blow onto the oxygen sensors (truly an emergency procedure!)
- Check, where your closest fire and smoke alarms are.
Safe resonating and Happy Easter
Ulli
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Dr. Ulrike Werner-Zwanziger
Adjunct Professor
Senior NMR Spectroscopist
Department of Chemistry, IRM, ARMRC
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H 4J3
Phone: (902) 494 1948
FAX: (902) 494-1310
e-mail: Ulli.Zwanziger_at_Dal.ca
Received on Thu Apr 13 2006 - 11:32:21 MST