Risk assessment: chip depackaging

Group/location:

Security Group, Material Science preparation lab (New Museum Site)

Description of activity/workplace:

Identified hazards:

1. corrosive/oxidising agent

Whom those hazards affect:

Reasonably foreseeable outcome:

1. eye, skin or lung damage (severe burns, toxic)
2. fire

Safe working procedure:

• work and keep all chemicals at a suitably equipped chemical laboratory at the Department of Material Sciences
• lab coat, rubber gloves, safety goggles, fume cupboard
• work only under supervision of Material Science lab technician
• use not more than 5 mL acid or acetone at a time
• avoid unnecessary mixing of acid and acetone
• pour acid into water, not the other way round

Assessment carried out by Markus Kuhn

Date: 2003-09-22