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Hi all this might be a silly question, but I'm trying to see if ChemWatch is easier to use than excel for the stocktake, and I'm entering in the quantity of methylated spirits we have (current volume) and its is asking for the maximum volume. Does this mean the max we are allowed to keep onsite? If...

Just had the maintenance guys in to replace a lightglobe in the prep lab, only to be informed that that particular light (closest to the chemstore) is a particular 'sealed' unit with ?% less mercury or something. Does anyone know if there is something in the building codes about anything within a ce...

Had a look at your photo and would be trying really hard to remove anything that doesn't need to be in there. It looks like you have rock and mineral kits stored in there? Try to move them out. Do you have anywhere else to store the glassware? Once you are a bit more familiar with what is getting u...

Chem Store.pdf Finally figured out how to attach a picture! Not shown are my oxidising cabinet and flammables cabinet, which pretty much organise themselves. This is everything else, including all my dilutions, as well as random stuff like crushed chalk, sea sand, floor cleaner, etc. that teachers ...

This is a map of mine, attached. I'm lucky enough to have a separate chemical room for diluted chemicals. I love your diluted chemical store. So empty and organised :clap3: But I have to admit, just looking at the map of your general store makes my head spin. Is each section a shelf? How do you eve...

Bump! I'd love to see some pictures of other peoples chem stores! Ours is mostly organised, but still ends up very cluttered and I can't always find what I'm looking for. I'd love to see if there's some fantastic organisation systems out there that I could copy :wink2: I'd attach a picture of my cur...

Ditto Merilin1 No RiskAssess no prac., it's when I'm away the mice play. I also don't work full time, so the prac lab/chem store is 'unmanned' at least one day a week (I'm the only labbie on site). We don't have any issues with 'double booking' labs or even equipment really. The only thing the teac...

Doing my first chemical audit this year 🤷‍♀️ To be honest, I have a general idea what I'm doing, but my predecessor was the first to do an official audit for the school and included EVERYTHING!! Under the recommendation of our auditor, I have updated our printed SDS collection to the 'mini' or 'summ...

I'd never considered getting the pracs ordered through RiskAssess. That sounds great. At the moment they just stop into my office periodically and tell me which prac they are planning on, and how many groups/students they will have. Most of the pracs are repeated from previous years, so we already h...

New Labbie this year, coming in from commercial laboratories. How do you determine what needs a risk assessment? My knee jerk response is to do a risk assessment for every prac, but the teachers tend to avoid them for the simpler pracs. I understand it seems ridiculous to run a risk assessment for a...