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When you begin work at the Division, several safety related events
will occur:
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If your work involves entering Controlled Areas, and you require
a personal dosimeter, you must meet with the Health Physics technicians,
located in Room R110 (call extension
2-4138.) The Health Physics Terchnician will provide advice on the
required radiation safety precautions and will arrainge to
have a badge issued in your name.
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During the first week of your employment you will receive
a request to attend a Human Resources New Employee Orientation Program.
This program will explain the Laboratory's safety policies,
your safety responsibilities and emergency procedures.
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At the New Employee Orientation Program, you will be given a
document titled the Job Hazard Questionnaire. Fill this document
out with your supervisor as soon
as practicable. Your answers to this questionnaire will determine
your training curriculum while you are at Argonne. Once the
Questionnaire is completed, bring it to the Division
ESH Engineer, in the Division Office.
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Report to the Medical Department (2-2811)
if you injure yourself. Also report the injury to your supervisor. If the injury appears to be serious,
DIAL 911 immediately.
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Supervisors should promptly report safety-related incidents and
near misses to the division ESH Engineer.
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Check with Waste Management or the Division ESH Engineer
for disposal procedures when you need to dispose of
hazardous materials (chemicals, flammable liquids, etc)
or radioactive materials.
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Eating, Drinking, storing or preparing food in rooms designated
as laboratories or controlled areas is prohibited. Additionally,
applying cosmetics is not allowed in these areas. All pipetting by mouth
is absolutely forbidden
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The water from drinking fountains and washroom faucets is ok
to drink. Water from laboratory faucets must not be used for
drinking.
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The "acid carriers", which are available in the stockroom,
should be used whenever transporting large-size bottles (5 pounds
or greater) of acids, caustics, mercury or flammable liquids.
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Work on every
new project, experiment or major piece of new equipment
(or revision to existing equipment) must be proceeded by a
safety review of the planned work by the Physics Division's Safety
Committee. A Hazard
Analysis and Project Review Form is
provided as a guide to supplying the information
required in the safety review. This
form must be completed for all safety reviews
conducted in the Physics Division except
for extremely minor reviews that are specifically
exempted from this requirement by the ESH
Engineer. Those reviews will be documented
by the ESH Engineer in his daily log. It
is the responsibility of the PI or owner
of the new project, experiment or major
piece of new or revised equipment to maintain
the documentation of the review. Contact the ESH Engineer for information.
Every
Safety Review must be updated at least annually
as long as the project remains active. The
PI or owner of the project must notify the
ESH Engineer as to whether any changes have
been incorporated into the review.
When starting work on a new project, be certain that you are
informed of possible hazards. Do not be shy about asking questions
and do not proceed until you are certain you
understand the answers.
The handling of cryogenic liquids
(Liquid N2, O2 and He) requires care. The proper protective
clothing must be worn to eliminate the possibility of
receiving a cryogenic burn. All glass-exterior dewars
must be taped. Severe burns can result from direct contact
with these liquids. Refer to the Physics Division Cryogenic
Safety Manual for guidance if you handle cryogenic liquids.
The Division Chemical Hygiene Officer or the Industrial Hygiene
section of EQO (extension 2-3310) should be contacted regarding
any problems involving chemical toxicity, solvents,
mercury, lasers, RF, noise, asbestos, confined space entry (which
requires training and a Confined Space Permit), etc. If hydrogen
or oxygen gas, or any potentially explosive chemicals are used or
produced in any process, the Physics Division ESH Engineer should
be notified. Refer to the Physics Division Chemical Hygiene
Plan, available on the Division's ESH web page or in the ESH Engineer's office. Anyone using a hazardous chemical must be aware of
the information contained in its Material Safety Data Sheet. That
information may be vital in the event of an accident.
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Work with radioactive materials may only be done in areas which
have been posted as Controlled by a Health Physics technician.
a Radiation Work Permit may be required when radioactive
materials are involved. Contact the Radiation
Safety Committee or the Division's ESH Engineer for advice. The Radiation Safety
Committee and the Health Physicist or a Health Physics
technician should be notified of work
involving radioactive material or radiation-producing devices in
order to assist in a safety review of the activity,
recommend any necessary bioassay sampling and provide external personnel monitors.
When the amount of activity or material and the nature of the work is such that Health Physics personnel or
the Physics Division Radiation Safety Committee
consider standby radiation safety coverage necessary, the work will
not proceed without such coverage. Timely coverage will be
supplied on request whenever possible. Request for
after-hours Health Physics coverage should be made as far in advance
as possible, preferably a week before the coverage is needed.
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Monitor your hands, shoes and clothing when leaving an area containing
exposed radioactive materials, or call Health Physics for a personal
survey. A hand and shoe monitor is provided in the Data room,
at the north source
and in Area 2 for this purpose and personnel are encouraged to use one
of them on a regular
basis and when leaving the ATLAS Experimental area. If you
receive a positive indication of contamination, stay
where you are and contact Health Physics.
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If you are directly involved in a radioactive spill, move only
far enough to be certain that you are out of danger, and call or
have someone else call a Health
Physics technician(2-4138). If you are not involved and the spill is
a serious one, you will receive instructions over the public address
system. You should do a
minimum of moving about (consistent with due regard for your own
safety) until you are sure you are not tracking contamination.
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Clothing suspected of being contaminated must not be placed in
the dirty laundry or taken home until surveyed by a Health Physics technician
and found to be uncontaminated.
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Potentially radioactive, contaminated or activated materials
must not be removed from the hoods or accelerator areas, or transferred
from one laboratory to another without being surveyed by Health
Physics personnel. The sole exception to this rule is the
transferring of radioactive calibration sources. These may
be transferred between controlled areas without a Health Physics
survey, but they must be carried in an approved secondary container.
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Nuclear material (NM) must not be left unattended when in use
and must be stored in a locked facility when not in use. All
radioactive samples must be labeled to indicate their activity levels,
isotope, batch number, composition (if NM) and the person responsible
for the sample (if NM). See Special Materials Users Guide,
ANL East for the definition of NM.
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Experiments with open sources must be carried out in a hood,
glove box or closed chamber, not on a bench top unless a review
of the Physics Division Radiation Safety Committee and the Division's
Health Physicist
has determined that alternate measures provide adequate protection.
The only hoods in Physics that are approved for use with radioactive
material are located in rooms H-174 and M-025. Contact John Greene
before
using these hoods.
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Work in the accelerator areas of Building 203 must conform to
the facilities’ safety procedures. These procedures vary between
accelerators and may be modified for special experiments. Contact
the Facility Manager of the accelerator to determine if site-specific
safety training is required prior to work being performed in the
area.
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Personnel must be alert to the possibility of radioactive contamination
on accelerator equipment from calibration sources, radioactive sources
or activated materials. As part of the contamination control
program, hand and shoe monitors are provided at ATLAS and the Dynamitron.
Protective clothing (gloves) is available as is special monitoring
equipment and services by Health Physics technicians. Personnel are required
to use these when necessary. Contact the Health Physics office,
the ESH Engineer or one of the Radiation Safety Committee members
if you have any questions.
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All work that is done in the Physics
Division must be analyzed, reviewed and
approved before it may be performed.
Work is divided into two classes:
experimental and non-experimental tasks.
To determine whether the work you are
analyzing is experimental or non-experimental,
refer to the definition for experimental
work given in Section 3.1, Introduction
of LMS-PROC-79
Experimental Work Planning and Control.
All work not meeting that definition
is non-experimental in nature.
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Cranes and other hoisting equipment may only be operated by trained,
certified crane operators. All hoisting is to be completed
in accordance with the ANL-East Hoisting and Rigging Manual. Contact
your supervisor or the Division ESH Engineer for details.
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