Responsibilities
Researchers are responsible for:
- Ensuring spills are reported or cleaned up in a timely manner
- Cleaning up nuisance spills of materials in their area, even if someone else spills them(janitors, service people)
- knowing the properties of the materials they are working with
- taking reasonable steps to prevent spills
HazMat team will:
- Assist researchers who are not comfortable cleaning up spills in their areas (even nuisance spills)
- Clean-up serious (HazMat) spills