Chemical safety begins with lab directors (faculty/lab managers/supervisors) identifying and reducing the risks involved when working with chemicals. As a lab director, you are required to adopt and implement the University of Michigan (U-M) Standard Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP), and where necessary, write Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for safety specific to the hazardous materials and methods used in your lab.
Chemical Hygiene Plan
Proper use of the CHP helps to ensure that research faculty, staff, and students who handle hazardous chemicals have the proper training and safety protections required under the law. The CHP provides the basic rules and guidelines generic to U-M research operations and every member of the laboratory is expected to read and understand it.
The Chemical Hygiene Plan Document Binder is in a downloadable “Word” format so that you can print it for your operation as is, or download and modify it to meet your unique needs. When you click the link it will automatically go to the download file.
- Chemical Hygiene Plan Updated November 2022
- EHS Document Binder
- PPE Hazard Assessment & PPE Recommendations
Standard Operating Procedures
The following documents may be required for your research operation, depending on what type of research you are performing, the potential hazards you and your staff will be exposed to, and the engineering controls you are implementing. Some of these documents are in a downloadable “Word” format so that you can print them for your operation as is, or download and modify them to meet your unique needs. When you click the link it will automatically go to the download file.
Templates
NOTE: This list will be updated as new SOPs are developed either by Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) or members of the U-M research community – please share your SOPs with others by sending a copy to EHSLabSafety@umich.edu.
- Acrylamide
- Acutely Toxic Chemicals
- Ammonium Fluoride
- Animal Anesthetics
- Aqua Regia
- Asphyxiants
- Autoclaves
- Benzene
- Beryllium Vacuum Windows
- Biological Toxins
- Biosafety Cabinets
- Bleach
- B-mercaptoethanol
- Bromo-Deoxyuridine (BrdU)
- Bunsen Burners
- Carcinogens
- Centrifuge Safety
- Chemicals and Drugs Administered to Animals in Standard Housing
- Chloroform
- Combustible Metals
- Compressed Gases
- Compressed Oxygen Greater Than 25%
- Controlled Substances
- Corrosive Chemicals
- Cryogenic Materials
- Cytotoxins
- Diethyl Ether
- Electrophoresis
- Environmental Rooms
- Ethidium Bromide
- Explosives
- Flammables and Combustibles
- Fluorouracil
- Formalin and Paraformaldehyde
- Fume Hoods
- Hydrofluoric Acid and Related Fluoride-Containing Mixtures
- Irritants
- Laboratory Emergencies SOP
- Laser Safety
- Lecture Bottles
- Machinery
- Magnet Safety
- MBE Chamber
- Methylene Chloride
- Nanomaterials
- Needle Recapping & Handling
- Nitric Acid
- Osmium Tetroxide
- Oxidizing Chemicals
- Perchloric Acid
- Peroxide Forming Chemicals
- Phenol
- Picric Acid
- Piranha Solution
- Pressure and Vacuum
- Pyrophoric Materials
- Rapamycin
- Reproductive Toxins
- Self-Reactive and Self-Heating Chemicals
- Sensitizers
- Sodium Azide
- Sodium Hydroxide and Ethanol Bath
- Streptozocin
- Sulfuric Acid
- Tamoxifen
- Tetrahydrofuran
- Toxic Gases
- Tricaine Methanesulfonate (MS-222)
- Ultraviolet Radiation
- Uranyl E-M Staining Compound
- Vacuum Pumps
- Water Sensitive Chemicals