Chemical Hygiene Plan - Queensborough Community College ...

12. Maintain records and make them available to employees and administrative
personnel
13. Select a qualified and licensed waste disposal vendor to routinely pickup chemical
waste materials. The Chemical Hygiene Officer will also coordinate hazardous waste
pickup with facility representatives
14. Remain aware of campus wide safety and health related activities
The Environmental Health and Safety office is located in the Service Building Room 212 and is
reachable at (718) 281 5148 or by dialing x5148 from an internal phone.
2.5. Deans/Directors and Department Chairs.
The department chairperson is ultimately responsible for chemical hygiene in his/her department
and must know and understand the goals of the Chemical Hygiene Program. The duties of the
chairperson are to ensure the:
1. Ensure that all faculty, staff (including temporary employees), visiting scholars,
volunteers, and students working in laboratories within their units comply with all the
requirements of the Chemical Hygiene Plan
2. Direct individuals-including, but not limited, to Principal Investigators, researchers,
graduate and undergraduate students, volunteers and visiting scholars, technicians-attend
any required health and safety training before working with hazardous chemicals, bio
hazardous agents, radiation, and/or other physical/mechanical hazards found within their
working or learning environments.
3. Ensure completion of an annual computerized inventory of all chemicals in storage
rooms and laboratories in their department
4. Perform routine identification of expired and unusable chemical stored for disposal.
5. Maintenance of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) for chemicals used in
laboratories in their department
6. Coordinate training with the CHO of all laboratory employees and other departmental
personnel who may come into contact with hazardous chemicals
7. Development of checklists for needed safety equipment in the Department
laboratories, and to ensure prompt acquisition of that equipment
8. Notify the Chemical Hygiene Officer before a faculty member retires or leaves the
University so that proper laboratory decommissioning occurs. For more information, see
the Lab Move Guide in the Appendix E.
2.6. Principal Investigators (PI’s), Faculty Laboratory Supervisors
Principal investigators, faculty, and other laboratory supervisors have ultimate responsibility for
chemical hygiene in the research or teaching laboratories in which they work. It is their duty to:
1. Know and implement the guidelines and procedures of the Chemical Hygiene Plan
2. Write specific operating procedures for handling and disposing of extremely hazardous
substances used in their laboratories and submit these procedures to the Chemical
Hygiene Officer for review. (These policies do not have to be written for minimal risk
Chemicals and derivatives)
3. Train laboratory personnel in these operating procedures and ensure the use of proper
control measures
4. Ensure all items identified in EHS inspections are corrected in a timely manner
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