nCATS Facility Health and Safety

nCATS facility has a number laboratories around the University and at the Chilworth Science Park.

The two main nCATS engineering laboratories, nCATS main laboratory (7/2023) and Nanometrology (7/5019) are controlled viva card access and permission to use the laboratory is by an induction conducted by the facility manager.  The induction forms can be downloaded below.  When the form is filled out this can be returned electronically to the facility manager, contact details below, but the verbal/visual part of induction process will needed to be booked with the facility manager.  Once the induction process is completed, application for access through planon will be requested (by the facility manager); this can happen quickly (less than a day) when quiet or may take a few days.  You will be notified when access has been processed.

nCATS facility manager (Terry Harvey) contact details:

• Location: 7/3003
• Telephone: x23761
• Email: harveyt@soton.ac.uk

nCATS facility also has two instrument rooms and a chemistry laboratory in building 30 (synthetic chemistry building), access and keys is controlled by chemistry administrative personnel, namely Sally Dady, contact details below.  You will need to read the chemistry induction booklet, which will need to be picked up in person from Sally, and fill out the induction forms, also available from Sally.  She will arrange card access and arrange for a key. Note that Sally only works morning up to 2pm.

Sally Dady contact details:

• Location: 29/2069
• Telephone: x24143
• Email: sjd1@soton.ac.uk

To access the erosion test facility at Chilworth Science Park you will need to do a site induction and this is conducted by Toru Tsuzaki contact details below.

Toru Tsuzaki contact details:

• Location: 21/1021
• Telephone: 22988
• Email: tt1m13@soton.ac.uk

All the facility equipment, various other rigs and ancillaries require training prior to use.

In the first instance contact the facility manager (details below), however there are several pieces of equipment where is would be more appropriate to contact the main user.  These are listed in the table at the bottom.

nCATS facility manager (Terry Harvey) contact details:

• Location: 7/3003
• Telephone: x23761
• Email: harveyt@soton.ac.uk

Equipment trainers:

Equipment	Trainer	Location	Telephone	Email
Vantage Nanoindentation systems	Dr. Richard Cook	5/3009	22164	r.b.cook@soton.ac.uk
Mini-traction machine	Dr. Monica Ratoi	7/4037	27160	M.Ratoi@soton.ac.uk
Surtronic S100	Dr. Nicola Symonds	15/2001/M47	28385	N.Symonds@soton.ac.uk
Slurry Erosion Rig	Dr. Jelili Bello	15/2017	22052	J.O.Bello@soton.ac.uk
Air-sand erosion facility	Dr. Jelili Bello	15/2017	22052	J.O.Bello@soton.ac.uk
Cavitation erosion rig	Dr. Spencer Court	15/2017	22052	S.W.Court@soton.ac.uk
Impact Rig	Dr. Nicola Symonds	15/2001/M47	28385	N.Symonds@soton.ac.uk
Electrochemical Equipment	Dr. Julian Wharton	7/4085	22890	J.A.Wharton@soton.ac.uk
Cyclic Corrosion Test Chamber	Dr. Julian Wharton	7/4085	22890	J.A.Wharton@soton.ac.uk

Below are links to download the latest version of the area risk assessments for main nCATS laboratory and Nanometrology.  Additionally the most current versions of the equipment risk assessments.

These are here so that inducted user and trained equipment users can have copies.

Undergraduate and MSc student

You will NOT need to submit anything that is included in the area risk assessment, but you MUST to submit task-based risk assessments including any of the equipment you have been trained on (i.e. you are covered but the area risk assessment, but not equipment risk assessment).

PhD students, Staff, Visitors, Interns

You will be covered by the area risk assessments (after induction) and equipment risk assessment(s) when trained.  You will only need to submit a risk assessment if it is beyond/not covered by either area risk assessments or equipment risk assessment(s).

All Users

Both the Alicona and Talysurf (in Nanometrology) can be used without submitting a risk assessment and only required an induction into Nanometrology and training to be covered by the area risk assessment.

Waste management is the laboratories can be considered to be:

• Recyclable waste
• Laboratory waste (low contamination)
• Laboratory waste (heavy contamination)
• Sharps
• Glass
• Solvent
• Oil

Please dispose of waste in the appropriate bin, failure to so may result in exclusion from the laboratory.

The table below list the type of waste and where it should go.

Waste type	nCATS main lab	Nanometrology
Recyclable waste	Green bins with clear plastic bags	University recycling bin (outside lab in corridor)
Laboratory waste (low contamination)	Yellow bin with black plastic bag	White bin with yellow plastic bag
Laboratory waste (heavy contamination)	Steel open topped black bin with blue plastic bag	N/A
Sharps*	Sharps bins	Sharps bins
Glass**	Glass bins	Glass bin
Solvent	Waste solvent bottle by lapping machine	N/A
Oil	Oil recycling by twin disc machine	N/A
Metal	Blue metal bin near lapping machine	N/A

* - sharps bin is for needles, blades (scalpel blades, Stanley knife blades, etc.)

** - Glass is for glass only the contents must be empty and disposed of appropriately

Note the laboratory waste (heavy contamination) and solvent waste is disposed of eventually by hazardous waste collection and full bags and bottle need to be store in the yellow flammable half-height cabinet near the entrance.  Collection is every couple of month or so.

Waste oil is recycled in the main tank located in the store, a key can be obtained from the EDMC office.

Most of the risk assessment and associate documentation is located on blackboard.

Here you will find the latest version of:

• Risk assessment form
• Method Statement template
• COSHH form
• Out of hour form

As well as guidance for filling these out.

Submission of risk assessment is through planon .