MIT OpenCourseWare | Materials Science and Engineering | 3.082 Materials Processing Laboratory, Spring 2003

All students should be familiar with the DMSE Safety Program, and must have passed the Departmental Safety Quiz.
Students are never to work alone in a laboratory.
Each time a student team begins a new procedure or begins work in a new laboratory, they must develop a safety plan in coordination with a 3.082 instructor or the laboratory supervisor. When this plan is satisfactory to both the students and the supervisor, both should fill out and sign a DMSE Chemical Hygiene and Safety Briefing Form (PDF). A copy should be given to the supervisor, and another placed in the Safety section of the team's 3.082 binder.
Before working with or purchasing a material, the associated Materials Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) should be obtained, read, discussed with the supervisor, and placed in the team binder. Most MSDS's are available from the web; for instance see this site.

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