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- Resume or terminate work session
- Notify the incident to your laboratory safety coordinator
## Spill outside a BSC
This procedure covers liquid spills that are not likely to provoke
important aerosols (low energy spills such as leakage from a
non-pressurized equipment), occurring on an open bench or on the ground.
- Alert people around
- Change gloves as well as lab coat if they have been exposed to the spill
- Secure the spillage area in order to prevent others to use it (bench) or walk in it (floor)
- Prepare spill kit
- Spread Haz-Tab granules on the spill and cover with absorbing material
- Let the disinfectant act for 15 minutes
- Clean up the area, using the scoop, scraper and, if needed, resistant gloves to collect broken glass
- Discard the absorbing material, gloves and everything that needs to be eliminated in infectious waste
- Spray the spilled area and its surroundings (exposed parts of furniture, equipment and walls) widely with 70% ethanol
- Let the disinfectant act for 5 minutes
- Wipe exposed surfaces with absorbing material
- Proceed to a last surface decontamination of the area wiping it with a freshly diluted Haz-Tab solution (concentration of available chlorine from 1,5 g/l in clean conditions to 6 g/l in dirty conditions)
- Notify the incident to your laboratory safety coordinator
