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Contents Introduction 4 Safety Solutions - Make your Lab a safer Place 6 Articles, Reviews and Useful Information • Everything revolves around Safety 12 • Safe handling of Solvents in the Laboratory 14 • Ensuring Safety - Every Day in the Lab 16 • The Underestimated Cost of Laboratory Air 20 • Risks of Electrostatic ignition in the Laboratory When handling flammable Liquids 22 • Protect your Health - Key Regulations & Laws 28 • Laboratory Safety with Passion 30 The System 34 HPLC-Supply 36 HPLC-Disposal 62 Safety Funnels 100 Level Control 118 Containers

We bring You Safety and Comfort Thank you very much for your interest in SCAT! SCAT stands for Safety Centre for Analytical Technologies in the area of solvent supply and disposal. Today’s innovation and quality leadership of SCAT Europe GmbH is based on SCAT’s former maintenance and service operation of HPLC systems in analytical laboratories. During visits to customers, we have repeatedly experienced the risks that are taken in everyday laboratory work. Users often even came into direct contact with solvents. The health of the employees was clearly at stake here! From our point of view, the...

The most important Thing is the Health of the People in the Laboratory. www.scat-europe.com Preserving this is an essential part of our mission. Perfect materials and simple, but absolutely safe handling are the requirements for safety.

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Safety Solutions Make your Lab a safer Place We at SCAT cannot understand why, for example, employees in a paint shop are consistently protected from toxic fumes, while laboratory workers are often exposed to the highly toxic solvent fumes from an HPLC system without any occupational safety at all. Let’s take a look at the processes on the supply and disposal side of an HPLC system: The process on the supply side of an HPLC system: Why do we protect HIM... An HPLC system extracts solvents from an open or leaky closed supply container (often a 1 litre laboratory bottle, with GL 45 thread). Solvent...

Safety Solutions Make your Lab a safer Place possible micro-contamination of the eluent. It is important that the inner diameter of the fitting is identical to the outer diameter of the capillary. The same applies here: the smallest leaks unnecessarily endanger work safety in everyday laboratory work and lead to falsified analysis results. Because measuring the diameter of the capillary is very time-consuming, all our Safety Caps are fully equipped with the possible fittings (1.6 mm = green; 2.3 mm = purple and 3.2 mm = blue, see also page 156). This saves you a lot of work and the reordering...

Safety Solutions Make your Lab a safer Place Safety Caps with a shut-off valve correspond to the highest level of development (see page 46). The shut-off valve prevents air intake into the HPLC system to avoid malfunctions or interruptions. Another advantage is that the storage container can be changed almost without dripping. The process at the disposal side of an HPLC system: Exhaust filter A SCAT Europe Safety Waste Cap with exhaust air filter, on a 10 litre waste canister, blocks approximately 28 litres of solvent waste, compared to an open canister in the vented laboratory, which can be...

Safety Solutions Make your Lab a safer Place We offer Safety Waste Caps in significantly more variants than Safety Caps. This is because there are significantly more disposal containers with different threads and capacities (see also the overview from page 130). If you collect solvents in a container with a capacity of more than 5 litres, the use of elctrostatic conductive canisters is recommended according to TRGS 727. The electrical conductivity is achieved by adding an additive, in this case carbon, to the base material PE-HD. This makes the canister electrostatic conductive, but unfortunately...

Safety Solutions Specialised Articles, Test Reports and Useful Information Everything revolves around Safety ⹅ Herbert Heidfeldt. Consultant for Environment, Health & Safety, Darmstadt, Germany. Safe handling of Solvents in the Laboratory ⹅ Michael Baldus. Product Manager, NOVIA Chromatographie- und Messverfahren GmbH. Ensuring Safety - Every Day in the Lab ⹅ Test report. SGS Institut Fresenius was commissioned to investigate reduction of missions achieved by use of SCAT Safety Caps. e The Underestimated Cost of Laboratory Air ⹅ Peter Rebehn. Managing Partner of SCAT Europe GmbH. Risks of Electrostatic...

Safety Solutions Product-Catalogue HPLC-Supply ⹅ Safety Caps ⹅ Air Valves ⹅ Sets ⹅ Safety Waste Caps ⹅ Safety Waste Cap LISA Safety Funnels Level Control ⹅ Signalboxes ⹅ Mechanical ⹅ Laboratory Glass Bottles ⹅ Canisters ⹅ Collection Trays ⹅ Exhaust Filters Addendum ⹅ Thread Determination ⹅ Chemical Resistance Table ⹅

Everything revolves around Safety “In the chemical laboratory, safety isn‘t self-evident. SCAT Europe helps its customers to achieve and maintain a very high degree of safety.“ Working in the laboratory means managing complex tasks routinely and reliably. Therefore, this work demands placing a great deal of confidence in the facilities and in their own competence. More and more, supervisors and employees of chemical laboratories have to struggle with the growing occupational safety and legal requirements. Herbert Heidfeldt Consultant for Environment, Health & Safety. Herbert Heidfeldt began his...

“Working safely and efficiently in the laboratory is a constantly growing challenge.“ Information about chemicals can be found on labels, MSDSs or databases like the GESTIS database. So that practical implementation also goes smoothly, qualified equipment and tools are indispensable in today‘s workplace, especially when using hazardous substances such as flammable solvents - reliably grounded work equipment is an absolute must. Here, you can‘t rely on your proverbial guardian angel. Work safety is always a system of interlocking work regulations and facilities. A grounded hopper also includes...