====== Project: Chemistry - Code of Conduct ======
up: [[friedhof:chemistry]]

Note: this is a work in progress and a draft to be presented to the shackspace plenum for discussion.

Lab discipline is of crucial importance to ensuring everyones safety as well as the safety of the space itself.

  * No food or drinks in the lab!  If you find anything inside the lab, destroy it at once!
  * No working alone in the lab!  ALWAYS have a lab partner in there with you at all times!
  * To work in the lab you are required to undergo a "lab 101" seminar given by a shackspace chemistry lab senior beforehand.
  * No experiments forbidden by German law
  * No experiments that you have not been cleared to perform beforehand
    * A list of experiments one is cleared to perform will be kept on file
  * If an experiment is potentially hazardous, have it okayed by the shackspace chemistry lab senior team first!
  * Plan ahead and have a contingency plan if something goes wrong!
  * You're required to study first, experiment later!
    * No mixing of random stuff!
    * You should know beforehand what the result and intermediates of a chemical reaction will be.
    * You should know what could go wrong at every step of the way.
    * You have to take measures to ensure the safety of everyone (involved or not).
  * At least two people present in the lab are required to have attended a first-aid course no more than two years ago.  Records of this have to be kept on file.
  * If something goes wrong, know what to do and who to inform and in which order to do what.

===== Lab Protocol =====
You will write a lab protocol for all experiments you perform.  No exceptions.
All protocols will be kept on file.

Most important points:
  * People present during experiment
  * People involved in experiment
  * Aim of the experiment
  * The exact amount of chemicals used
  * The efficiency factor of the chemical reactions
  * Amounts synthesized at each step
  * Means of destruction of synthesized substances (if applicable)
  * Type and amount of chemicals which were taken outside the lab
  * Procedures employed
  * Equipment used