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6. LABORATORY SAFETY PROCEDURES AND

TRAINING

Manditory :

I. Center for Materials Science and Engineering

Requirements (CMSE) :

I.A. Read the OSHA-mandated document, the Chemical Hygiene and

Safety Manual. You can obtain a copy from the CMSE

office, RM. 13-2090.

I.B. Take the Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE)

Chemical Hygiene Hypercourse at : http://www.boston-

consortium.org/sub_gro_ehs_wbt.shtml

II. Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Requirements (DMSE) :

II.A. Read the DMSE Department Safety Primer (printed out in this

manual following) :

http://web.mit.edu/course/3/3.041/html/safety/primer.htm

II.B. Read the DMSE Chemical Hygiene and Safety Plan manual which

can be obtained from Gerald Hughes, DMSE facilities manager; email:

ghughes@MIT.EDU, phone: (617) 452-3938, address: 8-309.

II.C. Make an appointment with Fred Wilson (room 13-4078, phone 3-6866)

to take the DMSE safety quiz on these documents.

All of these items must be completed before keys are

given out to the labs. Please inform Professor Ortiz the

dates that these are completed.

Advised :

1. Watch the CMSE Safety Presentation on videotape.