Darryl;
Do the right thing --- Very simple. They loose their privileges for NMR
if they contaminate your equipment. Also your company is at great risk
of being sued by employees who were contaminated and sickened by
doorknobs and other common surfaces if this is not a company wide
policy. Gloves do not move between rooms and should never leave the lab
they are used in unless all personell are required to wear gloves at all
times. If they need gloves to transport their sample then this means
that the sample container is not clean and something else terribly is
wrong.
You can require each user clean his workstation after he contaminates it
and supply you a MSDS sheet for each contamination instance to be handed
completed in order ... Which as we all know is impossible for this kind
of lab. So we keep excellent lab protocols in place and gloves on
keyboards are verboten in all walkup facilities.
The shields are still a good idea. Don't let them railroad you on this
simple lifesaving preventative measure because they are lazy.
This has been the policy in our facility promoted by my Director, Dr.
Ion Ghiviriga for at least 6 years.
Robert Harker
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-----Original Message-----
> From: Darryl A LeBlanc [mailto:Darryl.LeBlanc_at_Scynexis.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 11:18 AM
> To: 'ammrl_at_chemnmr.colorado.edu'
> Subject:
Hello all,
We want to cover a SUN keyboard in our NMR lab
with flexible, "type-through" cover to prevent chemical contamination.
The organic chemist's don't want to take off their gloves in order to
sumit an NMR sample on our walkup spectrometer.
It's a type 6 keyboard on an Ultra 5 workstation - it is identical to
the keyboard that came with our new blade 100 several years ago.
Does anyone know of a source for these covers? They are trivial to
locate for PC keyboards, but no one seems to make them for SUN
keyboards.
The fall back plan is to send a keyboard to a company that has
volunteered to make a mold from it and then sell us the covers, but I
can't spare a keyboard long enough to send it to them (and I am leery
how the process of making the mold will affect the functioning of the
keyboard!). Anyone have a non-functional type 6 keyboard laying around
that they
need to get rid of? (grin)
Thanks and I'll post a summary if there is interest.
Darryl
Darryl A. LeBlanc
Senior Research Scientist
NMR Spectroscopist
SCYNEXIS, Inc.
Ph: 919 544 8634
FAX: 919 544 8697
3501-C Tricenter Blvd
Durham, NC 27709
Received on Wed Oct 01 2003 - 20:33:56 MST