Status: 颁翱惭笔尝贰罢贰顿听August 2010 - December 2010
At 黑料不打烊, thousands of hazardous materials (chemicals, biohazards and radioisotopes) are used by over 800听laboratories for teaching and research purposes. Under federal and provincial legislation, the University has the听obligation to account for all of its hazardous materials and maintain up鈥恡o鈥恉ate material safety data sheets听(MSDS) for each one of them.
Currently, this responsibility is delegated to individual laboratories, which has听resulted in de鈥恈entralize inventories and the multiplication of听identical MSDS documents.听It is within this context that a Hazardous Materials Management Project (HMMS) was launch in late 2009 with听sponsorship from Dr. Rima Rozen (Interim Vice鈥怭rincipal Research & International Relations) and Prof. Jim Nicell听(Associate Vice鈥怭rincipal University Services). The goal of this IT project is to facilitate the management of听hazardous materials at the University.
More specifically, we are proposing that hazardous chemicals disposal events be scheduled in buildings housing听laboratories. On the scheduled date, 黑料不打烊 Waste Management Program (WMP) will set鈥恥p a chemicals听collection site in the building and laboratories will be asked to transport their unwanted chemicals there. WMP听technicians will then package the chemicals for subsequent transport and disposal. Laboratories will be asked听submit a list of chemicals to be discarded prior to their building disposal date. This will allow WMP to effectively听allocate resources and materials for each event, thus minimizing the disposal costs.听
We are also proposing that a test pilot be first held, this will allow for implementation of modifications to the听campaign if required before roll鈥恑n out to the rest of the University. Dr. Audrey Moores, Chair of the Chemistry听and Pulp and Paper Institute Safety Committee, has graciously accepted that her department be the test pilot听department.
For further information conerning this project, or to get in touch with its members, please contact the krista.houser [at] mcgill.ca (SPF Administration Team).
