Hazardous Chemicals Modules

The Research Training and Safety program currently consists of the following Hazardous Chemicals Modules.  

Some students and staff working in School of Chemistry laboratories may be required to complete a selection of the modules below before they will be allowed to work with particular chemicals or classes of chemicals. This will be determined by your supervisor, yourself and the lab manager and will be dependent on areas of need for your project and the extent of your experience working in chemistry labs.

You will have completed a module when you have read the SWPs, attended hands-on training (if applicable), and passed the quiz with a satisfactory score.

Haz Chem 1 - Compressed and liquified gases

• Haz Chem 1.0 - Gas Cylinders and Pressure Regulators

  • • Module for transport and handling of gas cylinders, and using and testing regulators

• Haz Chem 1.1 - Liquid nitrogen

  • Haz Chem 1.1.1 - Transfer of liquid nitrogen

    • Safe handling of liquid nitrogen, transfer between small vessels, decanting from bulk storage

    • NOTE: Haz Chem 1.1.2 - Refilling PLVs has been moved to the Lower Campus Store node - Haz Chem 1.1 - Liquid nitrogen - REFILL PLV F10 v2

• Haz Chem 1.2 - Hydrogen

  • Haz Chem 1.2.1 - Hydrogen balloon filling in F10/232 

    • Module for the use of hydrogen cylinders and decanting of hydrogen into balloons

• Haz Chem 1.2.2 - Hydrogen balloon filling in E8/705 

             Module for the use ouse of hydrogen cylinders and  decanting of hydrogen into balloons

• Haz Chem 1.3 - Dry Ice

  • Haz Chem 1.3 - DILVAC Dry Ice Maker

    • Module for the use of DILMAC dry ice maker

Haz Chem 2 - Flammables

• Haz Chem 2.1 – Working with pyrophoric reagents - Overview

  • • Module for general pyrophorics safety, required for working with pyrophoric reagents

  • Haz Chem 2.1.1 – Organolithium reagents

    • Required for working with organolithium reagents

       Haz Chem 2.1.2 – Organomagnesium reagents

Required for working with organomagnesium reagents

• Haz Chem 2.2 – Working with akali metals

  • • Required for working with alkali metals

• Haz Chem 2.3 – Working with metals hydrides

  • • Required for working with metal hydrides

• Haz Chem 2.4– Working with pyrophoric metal powders

  • • Required for working with pyrophoric metal powders

• Haz Chem 2.5– Working with pyrophoric phosphorous compounds

  • • Required for working with pyrophoric phosphorous compounds 

Haz Chem 3 – Corrosives

• Haz Chem 3.1 – Aqua Regia

• Haz Chem 3.2 – HF

• Haz Chem 3.3 – Piranha

Haz Chem 4 - Toxics and Health Hazards

• Haz Chem 4.0 – Toxics and health hazards – Overview

• Haz Chem 4.1 – Working with cyanides

• Haz Chem 4.2 - Prohibited and Restricted Carcinogens

MODULES UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Haz Chem 3.4 – Perchloric Acid