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List of Duties - Current


Duty

Task Description

Person
01/03/2011 – 31/08/2011

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

ACROSS Admin Officer

MSDS inventory

Make sure that the MSDS database is up to date and the MSDS's held in laboratories are current

Clodagh and ACROSS Admin Officer

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

Jason

Cakes for group meetings

Purchase cakes, etc for each group meeting - money can be obtained from Marc

Ryan and Phil

(alternate weeks)

Instrument maintenance

Routine and emergency maintenance of ACROSS instrumentation as required

All Users (Clodagh)

Gas cylinders

Ordering and inventory of gas supplies

Manish & Will Henderson

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

Joe and Ben

MilliQ system

Operation and maintenance of the MilliQ systems in rooms 402, 425A, 427 and 343A

Clodagh (Cameron)

Vacuum pumps

Maintenance of group’s vacuum pumps, PARC, 404 and 430.

Clodagh (Jason)

Autopipettes

Maintenance and calibration of the group's autopipettes

Clodagh (Tom R.)

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.

Mitra – 402, 404, 413 and photocopier on level 4

 Lea – 425A,427, 430, 431

Adam – PARC Petr - 216

pH meters and balances

Maintaining the pH meters, including the buffers and calibrating the balances

Clodagh (Naama)

Decanted solvents

Making sure the decanted solvent bottles are full

Dario and Cameron

Plants

Watering and/or cleaning plants

Naama

Checklists

Supply and updating of fumehood, safety shower, eyewash, etc checklists in each laboratory

Clodagh

First aid kits

Checking first aid kits, supply of lists and usage forms

Éadaoin

Monolith/particle-related instrumentation

OIC porosimeters, surface area analysers, etc.

Anna/Emily

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

Mohammad T.

Rm 216

General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness

Mirek

Rm 402

General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness

Ryan

Rm 404

General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness

Cameron

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

Lito

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.

Michael

Rm 428

General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the workshop, including safety matters and general tidiness

Viktor

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

Dario

Rm 431

General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness

Dario

Rm 438C PARC store rooms

General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the store room, including safety matters and general tidiness

Clodagh

PARC

General overseeing of the day-to-day operation of the laboratory, including safety matters and general tidiness

Pavel