Formal requirements with regard to final user

Persons working with chemicals, despite possessing the factual knowledge, must be aware of numerous additional conditions that must be obeyed while using the chemicals. This means that the outsiders who did not pass appropriate training or persons not possessing appropriate factual knowledge are not allowed to be present in laboratory – laboratory can not become a place of social gatherings or a dining room.

Persons working on their own must be trained within the scope of general and occupational safety and health rules and fire regulations. The trainings should be organized on periodic terms.

In addition, there is a need of periodic medical examinations which in the chemical sector are usually required a little more often than in other fields of human activities and have broader scope (i.e. hepatic tests, allergic tests and so on).

Persons not being workers of a given institution (such as students) must be trained within the scope of occupational fire safety rules by persons being in charge of and/or conducting the laboratory activities and their work and presence in the laboratory area is allowed only and solely under the control of the supervisors. One has to spare no effort to provide these persons with all information on chemicals (i.e. chemical safety cards) that will be used by them.

Formal requirements with regard to the workplace

The question of great importance but of ten times passed over is occupational hygiene at the workplace.