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:
- 3D printers
- 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
- Food service equipment
- Fume hoods
- Fungi
- Hazardous waste disposal
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- 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 & freezers
- Repair of equipment that is required to be sent off campus (certification of cleaning and decontaminating will be required)
- Space Heaters
- Self contained breathing apparatus
- Tank and Cylinder and accessories
- Toxins
- Viruses
- Walk in refrigerator or coldroom
- X-ray machines
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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.
