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List of Duties - Current


Duty Task Description Person
1/9/09 - 28/02/10
General office and laboratory tidiness along with good laboratory practice Maintain a neat and tidy office and laboratory workspace, which means: tidy up your desk and laboratory area at the end of each day; make sure that you and your colleagues are working safely; ensure that the responsible people are alerted to any issues in or relating to the laboratory - see this sheet and the induction document All
ACROSS administration, Space and resource allocation, ordering, inventory control, and safety Space and resource allocation, ordering, inventory control, and safety, IC maintenance and allocation Greg
Group meetings Organisation of group meeting schedules, etc Robert
General administration Stationery items and requests; Journal articles - downloads, hardcopies, document delivery and the in-house library; Scheduling of meetings with ACROSS staff; Problems with photocopier on Level 4; ACROSS website; etc Marc
MSDS inventory Make sure that the MSDS database is up to date and the MSDS's held in laboratories are current Marc
Setup of group meeting computer and projector Copy the talks from Holly to the laptop. Install the laptop in the room, connect to projector and make sure all is functioning Mohammad T
Cakes for group meetings Purchase cakes, etc for each group meeting - money can be obtained from Marc Paul H and Naama (alternate weeks)
Instrument maintenance Routine and emergency maintenance of ACROSS instrumentation as required All Users (Clodagh)
Gas cylinders Ordering and inventory of gas supplies Boon and Tom
Chemical, glass and general waste disposal Labelling of chemical waste, organisation of the chemical waste disposal, periodic emptying of the glass waste bin and paper waste wheelie bins Jason and Sam
MilliQ system Operation and maintenance of the MilliQ systems in rooms 402, 425A, 427 and 343A Tank and Oscar (Clodagh)
Autopipettes Maintenance and calibration of the group's autopipettes Tim and Lea (Clodagh)
Public use computers Virus protection, operating system updates, installation of software Anthony
Laboratory supplies Organise supplies of pipette tips, gloves, paper towel, Pasteur pipettes, sponges, etc. This role also includes stocking of paper for the photocopier on level 4.

Ryan- 401-413
David - 425 areas
Gustavo - Parc areas

pH meters and balances Maintaining the pH meters, including the buffers and calibrating the balances Will and Stella (Clodagh)
Decanted solvents Making sure the decanted solvent bottles are full Mohamed D and Jessica
Plants Watering, etc of plants Eli and Esmé
Checklists Supply and updating of fumehood, safety shower, eyewash, etc checklists in each laboratory Marc (Clodagh)
First aid kits Checking first aid kits, supply of lists and usage forms Emily
Monolith/particle-related instrumentation OIC porosimeters, surface area analysers, etc. Anna
Floating role To fill in for any person if they are absent for an extended period - the responsible person should contact the floating person to arrange duties if they will be away for known absences. In all cases the responsible person must handle the job if they are present Rowan
Rm 402 General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness Pavel and Lito
Rm 404 General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness Michael
Rm 412A General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness. OIC hot press Éadaoin
Rm 413 General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness Cameron
Rm 415 General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness Éadaoin
Rm 425A General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness, CE and CE-MS maintenance and allocation, OIC Deep UV lamp Emily
Rm 427 General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness. Roos
Rm 428 General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the workshop, including safety matters and general tidiness Eli
Rm 429 General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the server hub room, including safety matters and general tidiness Greg and Anthony
Rm 430 General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness Ashraf
Rm 431 General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness Jeremy
Rm 438C General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the store room, including safety matters and general tidiness Marc
Parc General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the store room, including safety matters and general tidiness Phil and Joe