Todd:Group Responsibilities

General Responsibilities and Lab Cleanup

You are responsible for:

• The maintenance of your hood (shown below), which means the space itself, the Schlenk line, the hivac pump and the cupboards underneath your hood
• The floor area immediately around your hood
• Your bench and desk area
• Those people with a bench bordering on the window are responsible for the bench area in front of the window.
• Specific maintenance tasks are listed below

There will be a general lab cleanup on: Wednesday September 14th 2011. Lab clean-up means:

• Making your hood clean and uncluttered
• Checking that the bottles of chemicals/solvents underneath the hood are tidy and in good order
• Cleaning your bench, shelves and cupboards, and clearing them of clutter
• Cleaning and tidying the sink area between benches
• Collecting together any broken glassware for repair or removal
• Cleaning the area in front of the windows to remove cobwebs/dust etc
• Cleaning up/checking things that are your direct responsibility (below)
• Removing RB flasks from fridges/freezers and transferring samples to vials
• Ensuring your samples in the fridge are properly labelled and are stored in plastic boxes
• Tidying up paper and any other clutter from your desk area
• Sorting any other equipment/glassware either into communal drawers, storage (i.e. labelled boxes) or into someone's private stash
• Sort out any communal crap underneath the sinks
• Identify any problems with equipment (e.g. stirrer hot plates, pumps)

Misc Responsibilities

• Rotary evaporators: Nilupa, Soo, Swapnil, Althea
• TLC Stains: Mingfeng
• TLC chambers/UV lamps (both) plus the in-group balance: Angus
• Ovens: Paul
• Glassblower repairs: Murray
• Fridge defrosting: Anthony

Fume Hood Assignments