Laboratory Safety Management Regulations
Chapter I: General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated to strengthen the leadership and management of laboratory safety work, protect state property and the personal safety of experimenters, ensure the smooth progress of experimental teaching and scientific research, and promote the scientification of laboratory management.
Article 2 School leaders at all levels, experimental course instructors, and experimental technicians must provide strict safety knowledge and discipline education to faculty, staff, and students participating in experiments. They must comply with all laboratory safety systems, be familiar with the safety operating procedures for various experiments, preventive measures for laboratory safety accidents, and methods for handling accident scenes. They must meticulously care for state property and correctly use equipment and materials, fostering a rigorous scientific attitude and good work style to achieve safe and civilized experimentation.
Article 3 Laboratory safety work involves many management departments such as Security, Logistics, Finance, Personnel, and Academic Affairs. The principle of unified leadership, division of management, designated responsibility, and coordinated cooperation shall be implemented. The Security Office is responsible for unified leadership and division of responsibilities for laboratory security, fire facility management, and handling various safety incidents. The General Affairs Office is responsible for laboratory building safety and safe water and power supply. The Academic Affairs Office is responsible for checking technical safety and protective safety, and assists the Security Office in handling safety incidents.
Article 4 Among various laboratory safety hazards, fire is the most prone to occur, has the greatest potential danger, and can cause the most serious harm. While doing a good job in all safety aspects, laboratories should prioritize fire prevention. Leaders at all levels, various departments, and all types of staff must highly value and be vigilant. Management links highly likely to cause fires, such as power supply, electricity usage, flammables, explosives, and high-pressure flammable gas cylinders, must be strictly managed and actively prevented according to their safety specifications.
Article 5 A certain quantity of firefighting equipment must be installed in laboratories. The school allocates a certain amount of funds annually for the provision, renewal, inspection, and maintenance of firefighting equipment. All firefighting facilities and attachments must be guaranteed to be in good condition and ready for use at any time. Firefighting equipment in public areas is managed by the Security Office. Firefighting equipment already allocated to laboratories is managed by the laboratories. Laboratory personnel must learn to use firefighting equipment.
Article 6 Those who consistently abide by rules and disciplines and have outstanding achievements in safe experimentation shall be rewarded. Those who violate regulations and cause accidents shall be severely dealt with.
Chapter II: Safe Water Usage
Article 7 Maintaining normal water supply is not only a general essential condition for experiments but also a technical and safe safeguard condition for maintaining the normal operation of water circulation systems in some large precision instruments, ensuring their proper function. The Logistics Management Office shall ensure the safety, reliability, and uninterrupted nature of the water supply. If water shutdowns are necessary, the laboratory should be notified in advance so that laboratory personnel can make adjustments to experimental work early.
Article 8 Laboratory water supply and heating facilities are maintained and repaired by the Logistics Management Office, ensuring they are tight, intact, and unobstructed. If malfunctions such as leaks, spills, drips, or blockages occur, the laboratory should promptly notify the General Affairs Office for repair. No individual in the laboratory may dismantle or alter without authorization water supply or heating pipelines or install water faucets. Upon completion of experiments, water valves and faucets must be turned off promptly.
Chapter III: Safe Electricity Usage
Article 9 Electricity is the primary power source for laboratory instrument operation. Modern instruments, especially large precision instruments, strictly require voltage stabilization, frequency stabilization, and uninterrupted power supply. The Logistics Management Office must highly prioritize laboratory power supply, making every effort to achieve dual-circuit power supply for laboratories. Dedicated circuits should be provided for laboratories and instruments with special requirements.
Article 10 Power outages must absolutely not be imposed arbitrarily on laboratories. Any foreseeable power outage must be notified to the laboratory in advance. The phase sequence of lines after inspection, adjustment, or transformer replacement must be consistent with the original laboratory line phase sequence. Responsibility shall be investigated for arbitrary power cuts without prior notice or for damage to computers and other instruments caused by phase sequence errors after line maintenance or adjustment compared to the original laboratory phase sequence.
Article 11 If laboratories need to increase power supply capacity, adjust lines, add distribution panels, sockets, etc., due to an increase in instruments, plans should be submitted to the Logistics Management Office for implementation. No individual in the laboratory may use electricity violating regulations, alter or dismantle lines without authorization, or add electrical equipment, especially high-load equipment. If power outages or instrument damage accidents occur due to such actions, responsibility will be investigated.
Article 12 The Logistics Management Office should regularly inspect the condition and load of internal and external power supply lines in laboratories, perform repairs promptly if problems are found, and ensure safe power supply.
Article 13 Dedicated grounding wires laid for laboratories are an integral part of the laboratory power supply and an important technical guarantee for the normal operation of large precision instruments. They are uniformly managed by the Logistics Management Office, which maintains their safety, regularly tests data, performs maintenance, and ensures that grounding resistance and the potential difference between neutral and ground meet the technical requirements of instrument operation. Laboratories must not connect grounding wires for high-current equipment or instruments generating large pulses to these dedicated lines to avoid interfering with the normal operation of large precision instruments. Flammable items are strictly prohibited around open-flame electrical appliances. The use of electrical appliances without insulated heat-proof bases is prohibited. Containers, pipelines, and equipment generating static electricity must have reliable grounding to conduct static electricity. Power should be turned off immediately after experiments conclude.
Chapter IV: Safe Use of Hazardous Materials (Note: Original numbering skips Article 14)
Article 15 Hazardous materials refer to flammables, explosives, strong oxidizers, highly toxic substances, radioactive materials, high-pressure gas cylinders, and other dangerous items. Instructors and experimental technicians must provide safety education on the scientific use of hazardous materials to experiment participants, ensure familiarity with the properties and usage knowledge of various hazardous materials, strictly operate according to the protective specifications and operating procedures for each type, and strictly prevent accidents.
Article 16 Various types of hazardous materials should be stored in dedicated hazardous material warehouses, managed and guarded by designated personnel. Inside the warehouse, different types of hazardous materials should be categorized and placed on separate shelves according to their different characteristics and storage requirements, managed properly, ensuring fire prevention, explosion prevention, moisture prevention, sealing, etc., especially during holidays, maintaining vigilance to ensure safety.
Article 17 Procedures for receiving hazardous materials must be strict, issued in limited quantities. Receipt of hazardous materials should be handled by experimental instructors or technicians. The use process of highly toxic substances must be strictly controlled, with detailed records of quantities received, used, remaining, and consumed. Surplus items must be returned to the warehouse promptly and must not be stored outside the warehouse.
Article 18 Empty containers of hazardous materials, deteriorated materials, waste solutions, and residues should be properly handled; random discarding is strictly prohibited.
Article 19 Lending or transferring hazardous materials to external units requires an introduction letter from the security department of that unit and approval from college leadership. The introduction letter must be retained, and the recipient must sign.
Article 20 When using various high-pressure gas cylinders, they should be secured to stands, lab benches, or walls using iron rings or other fixing devices, kept as far away from power sources as possible. Flammable and explosive cylinders should be kept more than 10 meters away from open flames. The gas source should be turned off immediately after use. They should be sent to inspection departments for technical inspection regularly according to their usage requirements. Transportation and storage processes must comply with their safety operating procedures.
Article 21 Experiments involving pathogens and bacteria require proper disease prevention and sterilization work, strictly preventing viruses and bacteria to avoid causing harm to personnel.
Chapter V: Safety During Experiments
Article 22 During experiments, instructors and experimental technicians must strictly require students to operate according to safe operating procedures, providing careful guidance especially on the use of flammables, explosives, highly toxic substances, radioactive materials, high-pressure gas cylinders, high voltage, lasers, etc., to prevent personal injury and accidents.
Article 23 (Incomplete sentence in original) During open labs, student-initiated experiments, and newly initiated experiments, if foreseeable unsafe factors exist... (Translation reflects the incomplete nature).
Chapter VI: Safety Inspection and Accident Handling
Article 24 Laboratory safety work is an important part of the school's overall safety work and has its particularities. It should be included in the important agenda of school safety work, with regular safety inspections organized. The purpose of safety inspections is to timely discover and eliminate unsafe factors and prevent accidents. The main content of safety inspections includes: checking leadership attention, safety education, safety systems, safety measures, and safety effectiveness. Safety inspections are conducted at different levels: college-level inspections twice per semester, organized by the college dean in charge of laboratory work. School-level inspections at least twice a year, organized by the Security Office, with participation from responsible persons of relevant offices (departments) and the department responsible for laboratories. Each inspection should be recorded, and existing problems should be urged for improvement.
Article 25 For major safety accidents that have already occurred, they should be reported promptly, the scene protected, and measures taken to prevent the accident from spreading further. The Security Office organizes relevant departments and personnel to investigate and analyze the accident, determine responsibility, and impose fines, compensation, administrative penalties, or even criminal liability on the responsible parties depending on the circumstances.
Article 26 The handling methods for various types of laboratory safety accidents are as follows:
Theft incidents and fire accidents involving laboratory equipment are investigated and handled by the Security Office, with simultaneous notification to the Academic Affairs Office.
For water damage accidents caused by staff negligence, failure to close water valves or faucets, or leaks/spills/blockages in water supply pipelines; or liability accidents where pipeline faults (leaks, drips, blockages) were reported to the Logistics Management Office for repair but not repaired promptly, or although repaired (not fixed) leading to water damage, compensation for the accident shall be required. Those causing certain losses or serious accidents shall be subject to heavier penalties up to administrative sanctions depending on the circumstances. Responsibilities belonging to laboratory personnel are investigated by the responsible college dean; those belonging to Logistics Management Office personnel are investigated by the Logistics Management Office. The Academic Affairs Office shall be informed.
For instrument damage accidents caused by unauthorized alteration or dismantling of power lines, adding distribution panels, sockets, etc., causing short circuits, open circuits, or overloads; or accidents caused by the Logistics Management Office cutting power or temporary power outages without notification, or incorrect phase sequence after line adjustment or repair compared to the original laboratory phase sequence causing instrument damage; compensation and other handling shall be conducted according to the relevant rules and regulations of Lanzhou Teachers College (Note: This likely refers to the institution's previous name or is an error, should probably be Huangshan University). Responsibilities belonging to laboratory personnel are investigated by the responsible college dean; those belonging to relevant Logistics Management Office personnel are investigated by the Logistics Management Office.
Chapter VII: Supplementary Provisions
Article 27 Each college (department, center) laboratory shall formulate detailed safety rules and safe operating procedures for its own laboratory based on these Measures and strictly implement them.
Article 28 These Measures shall take effect from the date of promulgation. The Academic Affairs Office is responsible for interpretation.