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Environmental Health & Safety Items
On- and off-campus sites, including all IFAS Stations, are required to obtain pre-approval from Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) before purchasing EH&S items.
To receive EH&S approval please submit the Equipment Purchasing Approval Form using this link: https://uflorida.sharepoint.com/sites/ehs-researchservices/LabSafety/SitePages/EquipmentPurchase.aspx. Once EH&S approves the request you may make the purchase. Evidence of EH&S’s approval must be included with the transaction supporting documentation.
You may also refer to the Procurement Directives, Guidelines for Certain Types of Purchases regarding the purchase of EH&S items
For a complete listing of items that require EH&S pre-approval, visit the EH&S Website.
EH&S items include but are not limited to:
| 3D printers
ADA accommodation items Air purifying respirators Anaerobic chamber Asbestos decontamination or removal Autoclave and sterilizer Autopsy supplies and equipment Bacteria Bench top fume collection cabinets Biological safety cabinets Boilers & pressure vessels Bulk storage tanks Cleaning of kitchen exhaust systems Compressed gas cabinets Disaster recovery services Dioxins and Tri-, Tetra- and Pentachlorophenol Drones Electron Microscopes Environmental growth chamber Explosives and fireworks Eyewash stations and safety showers Fall protection devices (harnesses & lanyards) Firefighting Equipment Freezers Food service equipment Fume hoods Fungi Hazardous waste disposal |
Ice Machines
Isolation glove chamber Gas chromatographs Kitchen cooking appliances Kitchen exhaust systems Lab oven or furnace Lab vectors Lasers Liquid scintillation counter Microwave ovens Ozone generators Personal monitoring or detection equipment (confined space meters, gas meters, survey meters and dosimeters, etc.) Portable air cleaning devices Radioactive materials Refrigerators Repair of equipment that is required to be sent off campus (certification of cleaning and decontaminating will be required) Safety Supplies ,equipment and service Space Heaters Self-contained breathing apparatus Tank and Cylinder and accessories Toxins Viruses Walk in refrigerator or cold-room X-ray machines |
To receive EH&S approval please submit this form https://uflorida.sharepoint.com/sites/ehs-researchservices/LabSafety/SitePages/EquipmentPurchase.aspx. Once EH&S approves the request you may make the purchase. EH&S’s written approval (email) must be attached with the transaction documentation. Send any questions via email to labsafety@ehs.ufl.edu.
Submit requests to:
Environmental Health and Safety
Equipment Purchase Approval
Attn: Laboratory Safety
P.O. Box 112190
Gainesville, Fl. 32611-2190
Phone (352)392-1591
Fax (352)392-3647
labsafety@ehs.ufl.edu
Please see the EH&S Directory for further contact information. You may also refer to the Procurement Directives, Section P regarding the purchase of EH&S items.
Last updated 3/23/23