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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.  These include but are not limited to:

    1. 3D printers
    2. Air purifying respirators
    3. Anaerobic chamber
    4. Asbestos decontamination or removal
    5. Autoclave and sterilizer
    6. Autopsy supplies and equipment
    7. Bacteria
    8. Bench top fume collection cabinets
    9. Biological safety cabinets
    10. Boilers & pressure vessels
    11. Bulk storage tanks
    12. Cleaning of kitchen exhaust systems
    13. Compressed gas cabinets
    14. Disaster recovery services
    15. Dioxins and Tri-, Tetra- and Pentachlorophenol
    16. Drones
    17. Electron Microscopes
    18. Environmental growth chamber
    19. Explosives and fireworks
    20. Eyewash stations and safety showers
    21. Fall protection devices (harnesses & lanyards)
    22. Firefighting Equipment
    23. Food service equipment
    24. Fume hoods
    25. Fungi
    26. Hazardous waste disposal
    1. Ice Machines
    2. Isolation glove chamber
    3. Gas chromatographs
    4. Kitchen cooking appliances
    5. Kitchen exhaust systems
    6. Lab oven or furnace
    7. Lab vectors
    8. Lasers
    9. Liquid scintillation counter
    10. Microwave ovens
    11. Ozone generators
    12. Personal monitoring or detection equipment (confined space meters, gas meters, survey meters and dosimeters, etc.)
    13. Portable air cleaning devices
    14. Radioactive materials
    15. Refrigerators & freezers
    16. Repair of equipment that is required to be sent off campus (certification of cleaning and decontaminating will be required)
    17. Space Heaters
    18. Self contained breathing apparatus
    19. Tank and Cylinder and accessories
    20. Toxins
    21. Viruses
    22. Walk in refrigerator or coldroom
    23. X-ray machines

    To receive EH&S approval send an email to labsafety@ehs.ufl.edu which contains the following information.  Once EH&S approves the request you may make the purchase.  EH&S’s written approval (email) must be attached with the transaction documentation.

    1. Department, lab, and principal investigator purchasing the equipment.
    2. The purpose of the equipment.
    3. Whether the equipment will be used to store flammable solvents (refrigerators and freezers only).
    4. Where the equipment will be used.
    5. Contact name and phone number.

    Submit requests to:
    Environmental Health and Safety
    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.

    University of Florida
    Gainesville, FL 32611
    (352) 392-3261
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