“Helping Research Facilities Achieve Safe, Energy Efficient & Sustainable Laboratories”
Clever Solutions Ltd. and Exposure Control Technologies, Inc. hosted a Seminar event on 15th May 2015. Key speakers were Thomas C. Smith (President and CEO, ECT, Inc.) and Tom Checksfield (Senior Vice President, Business Operations, ECT, Inc.).
This intensive one day seminar and training session was geared towards helping Facility managers, Environmental Health and Safety personnel and laboratory managers to:
- Understand the fundamentals of proper laboratory design and the challenges of operating and maintaining complex laboratory HVAC systems and controls.
- Learn about selecting, installing, operating and testing chemical fume hoods and other types of ventilated exposure control devices to ensure safe and efficient operation.
- Identify opportunities to safely reduce energy consumption in labs.
Plan and execute safety and energy optimization projects. - Develop and implement a Laboratory Ventilation Management Program to ensure continued safe and efficient operation of the laboratories and minimize risk of exposure and liability.
Clever Solutions Ltd. would like to thank all who attended the Seminar held on Friday 15th May 2015. Below is the feedback received after the seminar. Thank you for all your responses.
What are the most useful concepts you got out of the Seminar?
· Knowledge of fumehood installation, its use, and testing awareness of the importance of lab Ventilation.
· Better understanding of the fumehood and its extractive system. Also where can I get proper support for fumehoods.
· Efficient Lab – Fumehood solving and Fumehood optimum efficiency usage.
· A better understanding of ventilation systems. Also how they can be assessed and what options are availble for improvement.
· We need to optimize: safety and energy lab Esop process.
· The safety and protection of working in a lab environment.
· Training staff to be more aware about facility maintainance and operating specifications of a laboratory.
· How lab activities impact on hood/extraction effectiveness. How existing equipment can be modified to be more effective.
· The information with description and pictures. The practical examples of their scenario experiences.
· Lab design is key and use common sense in our approach to fumehood placements.
· Recognizing that our 30+ old fumehood need retro fitting. Clever Solutions Ltd. as a possible consultant for finding solutions to our room odour problems.
· Learning about fumehood safety and energy usage.
· Lab safety and commissioning.
· Balancing air pressure Input = Output and Safety and energy usage.
· Repairs to fumehood to be more effective. Testing and measuring to be made to confirm good working fumehoods.
· Lab Safety and energy optimization process and lab ventilation risk assessment.
· OSHA Implications.
· The structure of the hood. Exhaust more air pressure than supplied pressure. More air comes in than out.
· Fume hoods and facilities.
· Information on lab ventilation.
· The facilities aspect and configurations needed for lab safety. Building manual that I an currently working on.
· Safety with the use of fume chambers and also the need to have them checked to ensure safe operations to all.
· Limitation of the hoods and methods to retrofit.
· The guideline to create a LUMS.
· The purpose of the fumehoods, its protection of personel and the safety optimization and application specification.
· Awareness of resources available for maintence of CD’s and access to information on optimizing ventilation.
· Information on how VAV Systems works. Practical details on how to test fumehood efficiency as well as how to maintain hood efficiency.
· The importance of personal safety and proper working fumehoods.
·Areas showing proper usage of the fumehood and maintainance.
· Laboratory safety conditions. Air flow solving problems of odours etc and malfunctioning fumehoods.
· Balance enclosures, filters for circling and modification of existing fumehoods.
· Our national standards in reference to the topic of interest.
· The fumehood.
· Slow down take time to explain in more details.
· Calculation for air, food and water.
· A field example would be really good or a video of field work.
· Laboratory design.
· Waste gas management in Hospital environments.
· Clear procedures a way forward clearly explained.
· Anatomy Lab ventilations.
· Testing equipment for the flow rate.
· Other equipment for laboratories.
· Emphasis on proper training for lab technicians on the various test hazards associated with the fumehood.
· Training of fumehood users to oprerate and maintain hoods. Understanding do’s and don’t of fumehood use with emphasis on detecting hood problem inefficiency.
· Assessment of present hoods and how to improve them to work properly.
· A job well done.
· More information on designing an extraction system.
· More interaction and hardcopy of powerpoint to follow as presenter presents.
· More examples of situations within Trinidad & Tobago so that companies of personal situations can be referred to.
· The event was well planned.
· By focusing more on the safety aspect of the seminar.
· Print out the powerpoint presentation to make notes on.
· A some what more relaxed atomosphere at lunch.
· Cannot think of anything, since the event was executed in a very professional manner.
· Timing
· Keep to Schedule (Lunch).
· Earlier start time to allow for question and break out session.
· Small group discussion.
· Better parking facilities.
· Video examples.
· Information on the equipment to retrofit and demonstration of the retrofit.
· A follow up session dealing mainly with developing LUMS for facilities personnel.
· Duration could have been 2 days but summarized professionally.
· Build on this workshop and get existing hoods certified.
· The speakers were very knowledgable and competent in their field of work. They delivered a very comprehensive seminar.
· Great Seminar, Thanks.
· Database of people who attended for notification for all similar future seminars and networking.
· Overall the program was one of the most important classes, I have ever had to participate in.
· Thank God for this seminar which bring the dangers with which we work to the forefront.
· Very interesting and informative session. Very well planned and executed.
· Much appreciated very good presentation.
· Parking facilities could have been provided closer to the event.
· Overall quite useful session for any one in a management/leadership position at a lab.
· Excellent job.
· Excellent one day seminar. Both presenters are experts in their field. Clever Solutions Ltd. personnel conducted all aspects of this one day seminar – presentations, lunch time entertainment, refreshments in an excellent manner that surpassed my expectations.
· Installation of new hoods to proper standards.
