Memorandum Attention: Department of Chemical Engineering Safety Committee Department: Chemical Engineering Sender: Warren Batchelor Subject: Minutes of meeting held on 18 February 2007 at 11.00 am Date: 18 August, 2009 Present: Warren Batchelor (Chair), Martin Rhodes (HOD), Ron Graham (Safety officer), Jill Crisfield (Resources Manager) Apologies: John Whale (Faculty Safety Officer), undergraduate representative. Please see table below for attendance of representatives from different labs. Lab or Group Name Room/Building Lab Manager Safety Committee representative Attended & alternate G17/37 Emma Qi Emma Qi/ Andrew Hoadley AH/ EQ Clean Coal Hard Stand/37 Emma Qi Emma Qi/ Andrew Hoadley AH/ EQ Clean Coal Shed/37 Emma Qi AH/ EQ Mohammod Asadullah Emma Qi/ Andrew Hoadley Shu Zhang/ Syed Hassan Mohammod Asadullah Shu Zhang/ Syed Hassan No rep. Hue Chen Au Yong Ranjeet Singh No rep. CRC Lignite MTE group Advanced Particle technology Coal Science Coal Science 110/37 124/37 112- West/37 No rep. Clean Coal G12/37 Liangguang Tang Shu Zhang/Syed Hassan No rep. Food Tech 211/36 Adel Fickak Carrie Chen/ Winston Wu Saptarshi Kar Fluidization 306, 306A/37 Sean Lin Tony Zhang/Lawrence Quek No rep. Bio Engineering Lab 218 - 221/36 Susan Han Gareth Forde/ Susan Han Apology (GF) Xinyi Zhang Nanomaterials 111/37 Linda (Dan Li) Analytical lab G11/37 Ron Graham Xinyi Zhang/ Zheng Wang John Barnard/ Ron Graham Fluidisation 106, 106A/37 Shan Wang Farhana Rahman/ Ali Akhavan Shan Wang Fluidization 206, 206A/37 Shan Wang Ali Akhavan/ Farhana Rahman Shan Wang Ron Graham Adsorption Group/CO2-CRC MAPEL G13/37 224/69 Penny Xiao Yunxia Yang, Linda Li Shu Zhang/Syed Hassan Karen Hapgood/ Cordelia Selomulya/Thanh Nguyen Shu Zhang Karen Hapgood Biological Corrosion 215/36 Margarita Vargas Abhishek Saxena /Raman Singh Margarita Vargas Corrosion 120/37 Bobby Mathan Abhishek Saxena/ Raman Singh Margarita Vargas Corrosion 121/37 Bobby Mathan Duc At Nguyen Abhishek Saxena/ Raman Singh Margarita Vargas Duc At Nguyen Duc At Nguyen Ron Graham Ron Graham Ron Graham Ron Graham Ron Graham Ron Graham Ron Graham Rheology lab Fluidization Teaching 205/69 G07/37 G09/37 Solids/size reduction lab G14/37 Ross Ellingham Ron Graham Solids Store G15/37 Ross Ellingham Ron Graham Ron Graham Chemical Store G01/37 John Barnard John Barnard/Ron Graham Ron Graham National Print Lab G43/27 Wei Shen Coating/Creping G16/37 Ian Parker CRC Smartprint/APPI 101/59 Warren Batchelor Chemical Lab 103/59 Warren Batchelor Analysis lab 107/59 Paper Test lab 109/59 Warren Batchelor Warren Batchelor Temp/humidity Control Lab 110/59 Warren Batchelor Warren Batchelor Deinking lab G11/59 Vinh Dang Apology (KLN/VD) High Lab G12/12 Vinh Dang Apology (KLN/VD) APPI Warren Batchelor Warren Batchelor Warren Batchelor Warren Batchelor 1. Minutes from the February meeting were approved. 2. Actions from previous meeting (a) Ron Graham has contacted the Monash Office of Environmental Sustainability about implementing water conservation strategies. There will be no response until after Easter. 3. Safety Issues from faculty The Engineering Faculty Zone meeting will be held in the 7th of March. A desk-top audit will be conducted by Worksafe in the 1st week of April with particular emphasis on chemical storage. OHS have developed a new format for risk assessments. All risk assessments will need to be redone to comply with the new format, starting in 2009. A table showing the Faculty of Engineering OHS objectives was tabled. Martin Rhodes, Jill Crisfield and Ron Graham have already met to consider the Chem. Eng. response to the objectives. 4. Laboratory Inspections A schedule for Semester 1, 2008 is attached to these minutes. Since the last meeting the following inspections were completed: Chemicals store, Fluidisation, Dewatering/SHS drying, corrosion and coal science. The flammables storage in the coal lab was found to be inadequate and additional storage needs to be installed. Action: RG 5. Incidents reported since the previous meeting A postgraduate was seen entering the food lab barefoot. The student was counselled by the lab manager about this and warned of the consequences if it is repeated. A bottle of waste chloroform broke in the warm weather as it was overfilled. The chloroform then evaporated. This could have been prevented if a vent cap had been used. These are available in stores. 6. General Business 7. Date of next meeting Meeting Room. Warren Batchelor (Chair) Wednesday 16th of April from 2 to 3 pm in the Departmental Inpection Timetable Shaded=completed Due Date – Week ending Friday 1 February Lab Inspection Team Lab Inspection Team rd 3 Year Lab (Bldg 37) R. Graham Chemicals Store (Bldg 37) J. Barnard G09 M. Rhodes G01 Ranjeet Singh UG Reps Friday 15 February H. Wang Fluidisation (Bldg 37) S. Wang Dewatering/SHS Drying (Bldg 37) E. Qi G07, 106, 206, 306 G. Forde G12, G14, G15, G17, Garage J. Crisfield Zh. Wang Friday 29 February R. Jagadeeshan Corrosion (Bldg 37) B. Mathan/M. Vargas Coal Science (Bldg 37) M. Asadullah 120, 121, & Bldg 36 215 L. Nguyen 124, 110, Gas storages, Gas Room 1&2 D. Chen R. Graham Friday 14 March J. Whale Adsorption (Bldg 37) P. Xiao Coating (Bldg 37) I. Parker (to nominate) HS area, G13, 112 G. Forde G16, G66 K. Hapgood Zh. Wang Friday 28 March Ian Parker Hydrothermal & Postgraduate Office Li D. (Linda) Ancillary 1 (Bldg 37) R. Harrip 111, Gas Room 1, 117 H. Wang G02, G03, G11 A. Hoadley C-Z Li Friday 11 April E. Qi Rheology (Bldg 69) Duc At Nguyen BEL (Bldg 36) S. Han 205 G. Garnier 215, 218, 223 J. Crisfield A. Fickak Thursday 24 April K. Hapgood Food Tech. (Bldg 36) A. Fickak APPI High Lab (Bldg 59) L. Nguyen (to nominate) 211 W. Batchelor G10, G11 C. Selomulya J. Whale Friday 9 May S. Wang APPI – Top floor Bldg 59 W. Batchelor (to nominate) NPL (Bldg 27) W. Shen 101, 103, 107, 109,110 C. Selomulya G43 M. Rhodes R. Ellingham Friday 23 May G. Garnier Chemical Engineering T. Wall MAPEL Y. Yang General Office, Building 36 A. Hoadley Bldg 69, 224 L. Nguyen W. Schoppe G. Thunder