If a chemical or a hazardous material is unintentionaly released into the environment, it is considered as a spill. It is essential to know how to react when a spill occur in order to protect the people working in the laboratories.
If a chemical or a hazardous material is unintentionally released into the environment, it is considered as a spill. It is essential to know how to react when a spill occurs in order to protect the people working in the laboratories.
The first thing to do is to follow the **SPILL** sequence:
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## Chemical Spill
1. Wear the appropriate PPE
2. Contiaine the spill with Trivorex
2. Contain the spill with Trivorex
3. Sprinkle to cover the entire spill and wait for 5 min
4. The color should turn back to yellow-green,, indicating a neutral pH
5. Remove with the shovel from the spill kit and descard in a platic back, that will be discarded with the solids contaminated with chemical bin (blue bin with yellow cover)
4. The color should turn back to yellow-green, indicating a neutral pH
5. Remove with the shovel from the spill kit and descard in a platic back, that will be discarded with the solids contaminated with chemical waste (blue bin with yellow cover)
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1. Wait 30min between the spill and the intervention. This time is allowing all the potentially generated aerosols to fall down.
2. Cover the spill with absorbant
3. Desinfect. The aerea of disinfction should be twice as big as the size of the spill.
- For small spill (~10mL), use the disinfectantfomr the lab
3. Disinfect. The aerea of disinfction should be twice as big as the size of the spill.
- For small spill (~10mL), use the disinfectant from the lab
- For larger spill, use the disinfectant from the spill kit
4. Respect the contact time of 10min for disinfection
5. Collect the absorbant and discard them in the biological waist
5. Collect the absorbant and discard in the biological waist
