up: 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.

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