DCHAS-L Archives, Jun 26, 2023 - Re: [DCHAS-L] Chemical inventory frequency.

Trinity has a Studio Arts program. Also, there are theater and film departments that will involve use of toxic products.

Is there any program to ensure that students don't bring in their own art and craft supplies? Are the faculty ordered materials on the inventory? Remember that art materials are all exempt from consumer product lead, cadmium, silica, and other regulations. And there is a huge movement in the professional art world that has spilled over into universities to go back to the lead carbonate white and other lead pigments. Major suppliers now sell lead, arsenic, mercury, chrome VI, and other toxic pigments in powdered form with kits to make your own paints from them.

There also are all kinds of new products in etching, 3D, laser cutting substrates, two-component resins including urethane (isocyanates) and much, much more.

Get thee into all the corners of the art, theater, and film departments including the graduate studios and the offices of the faculty which if you are not careful become personal studios.

Monona

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From: McLaren III, Jim A. <james.mclaren**At_Symbol_Here**TRINCOLL.EDU>
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU
Sent: Wed, Jun 21, 2023 11:59 am
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Chemical inventory frequency.

Hi Shannon—

We are a small college, Trinity College, in Hartford Connecticut.

Depends on what you mean by inventory, and this is exclusively performed in our chemistry department.

Daily we inventory all flammables, corrosives, acids and bases in each lab.

Monthly we perform a data search using our inventory system of chemicals to see what has been disposed and purchased. Strictly a computer search and run and then reading the results. We also maintain this list as a breakdown by floor and lab so that if the need arises we can notify any first responders of what to be wary of in each lab.

Yearly , typically in August when research labs shut down, we physically inventory each lab to also evaluate how much material is actually in each container and evaluate age of materials.

And then when professors retire and we also inventory their lab and dispose of any out of date material.

I hope this helps you a little.

Good luck.

Jim McLaren

Lab Technician/Chemical Hygiene Officer/Nuclear Safety Officer

300 Summit Street, Trinity College Chemistry Department,

Hartford, CT 06106-3100

Telephone: 860-297-2512

From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU> On Behalf Of Shannon Nephew
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2023 10:00 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Chemical inventory frequency.

Good morning,

I'm trying to gather data to see how often universities are doing chemical inventory.

If you could please reply and state if you are a small, medium or large university and if/when you do chemical inventory and the frequency.

This information is greatly appreciated.

Best,

Shannon