Manual handling procedures

The cycle time that was provided by the technology proponent for the DV65 operating under manual handling procedures was 1.5 hours. This is equivalent to the 6 cycles per day given in Table 4-4 plus a presumed 1-hour allowance for start-up and shutdown and/or minor delays. This cycle time is substantially shorter than the demonstrated 2.5-hour cycle time for the smaller DV45 that operated in Japan. 

Before commencement of atty manual handling procedure (lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, supporting or carrying), first assess the situation in accordance with the relevant... 

Appropriate manual handling procedures will be adopted. 

Automation using a robotic liquid handling system eliminated most of the tedious steps encountered with traditional manual extraction procedures. Automated 96-well SPE and LLE techniques using robotic liquid handlers have been successfully implemented to support high-throughput bioanalysis.5... 

Automated Procedures At least four commercial automated instruments exist which will concentrate headspace volatiles on adsorbents and thermally desorb them into a gas chromatograph. Times, temperatures, and gas flow rates are accurately controlled. Manual handling steps which can introduce variability are eliminated. Since these instruments are automated, sample throughput is enhanced they can be interfaced to high resolution gas chromatographs. 

The separation experiments with the detection groove were however still insufficient for more qualitative studies. This can be attributed to the semi-manual injection procedure that is not reproducible enough. The standard variation of three consecutive injections can vary from 1 % up to 50 % mainly due to the manual handling in this injection procedure. 

Chemicals used in the quality control analyses in the shieided glove box (SGB) and ventilation hoods of the Quality Control Laboratory involve small (less than a liter) quantities of some acidic and basic chemicals, including ammonium thiocyanate, stannous chloride, sulfuric, nitric, and hydrochloric acids, ferric sulfate, carrier solutions, ethyl acetate, sodium nitrite, chloroform, sodium hydroxide, and potassium iodide. Material Safety Data Sheets for any processes implemented in the HCF are reviewed in accordance with the SNL ES H Manual to identify any carcinogens or other hazardous materials. Operations in the SGB for preparation of various Mo-99 product dilution samples would require a small bulk supply of sodium hydroxide (0.1 N NaOH). Quality control analysis sample preparation operations require small bulk supplies of the above chemicals. Workers performing quaiify control analysis use chemical handling procedures as required by the Sandia ES H Manual. 

Any spills are contained in a spill tray and cleaned up with a spill kit -Workers performing quality control analysis use basic safe chemical handling procedures as spelled out in the Sandia ES H Manual. 

Where a job involves considerable manual handling, employers must now train employees in the correct lifting procedures and provide the appropriate equipment necessary to promote the safe manual handling of loads. 

We began to look at safe electrical isolation procedures in Chapter 1 and then discussed this topic further in Chapter 8, together with safe manual handling techniques and safe procedures for working above ground. 

Automated methods not only increase the amount of chemical data obtainable during a cruise, they also avoid some of the main pit falls of manual analytical procedures. Most of the standard manual analytical methods include multiple handling of samples in open vessels while adding reagents or during titration, etc. The resulting risk of sample contamination, though tolerable in a clean laboratory, becomes incalculable under the somewhat provisional conditions in a ship s laboratory even if the floor is not in constant motion. 

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