We have one self-closing door safety cabinet in our chemical storage building.  I have been slammed by the door enough times to be wary of it but luckily have not dropped anything, and it is a half size cabinet.   I do not regard this as a “trivial annoyance”.  The rest o f the cabinets have manual close doors, and we have not had problems with doo rs being left open.

I recently bought several safety cabinets, and I found that it is the state that mandates self closing doors.  Luckily, we were able to purchase ones with manual doors.

Regina Cody

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Regina Cody

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Code 691

Greenbelt, MD 20771

Office: 301-286-3782

Fax: 301-286-1683

Email address: regina.cody**At_Symbol_Here**nasa.gov

Yes!  We had an entire 4 L bottle of methylene chloride dropped and broken because of someone struggling with a self-closing door.& nbsp; I too prefer the doors which are not self closing.  Like at your facil ity, we have not had problems with people leaving the doors open. 

Pat Peifer

Health, Safety and Training Team Leader

West Pharmaceutical Services

101 Gordon Drive

Lionville, PA  19342

610-594-3278

We have had chemicals dropped a few times because of the sel f closing doors.  Has anyone else had this problem?  In trying to k eep the door open, or not realizing how close the door is  people have bum ped the door pulling out the chemical and dropped the bottle.  Our older cabinets are not self closing and we don’t have a problem with the do ors being left open.  I prefer those that are not self closing.

MaryAnn

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