From: Melissa Ballard <melissa.ballard**At_Symbol_Here**MICHELIN.COM>
Subject: [DCHAS-L] emergency shut-offs
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:52:24 +0000
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
Message-ID: DB5PR0901MB1333223CE7B556747467D3D082750**At_Symbol_Here**DB5PR0901MB1333.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com
I am pretty sure it’s been discussed here before in terms of ventilation shut-offs but what is the consensus on having electrical emergency shut-offs for laboratories? Our company is building a new lab and is asking my opinion. My gut says
that if you shut off the ventilation then you would want to shut-off power too, to prevent any heated activities from continuing or any electrical sparks from igniting fumes that may accumulate but I didn’t know if there were any standards or regs to back
me up.
I’d like to go into my meeting tomorrow with a little more than my gut feeling.
Thank you!
Melissa Ballard, MSPH, CIH, CCHO
Industrial Hygienist / Industrial Hygiene Chemist
Michelin North America
1401 Antioch Church Road
IH Lab – Bldg 150 – 1st Floor
Greenville, SC 29605
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email: melissa.ballard**At_Symbol_Here**michelin.com
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