Keep the Lab Clean

• Clean up your samples, razor blades and other glassware after you finished your experiments. Samples on glass slides can be kept in plastic storage boxes with or without slide holders, which can be obtained from PS stores. Do not keep them floating around! Random samples are considered waste and will be thrown away. Razor blades go in the sharps container and excess glassware goes into the cardboard glass bins.
• Label your samples. Make sure to write with a Sharpie on your sample the following: sample contents, your name and the date. Avoid other people having to guess what your sample is.
• Keep optics organized. Do not leave optical parts at random positions. Please put optomechanics and optics back in the drawers and cupboards. Pick up loose screws, cables and lens tissue paper and organize whenever possible.
• General clean up sessions. Every two weeks, please check the floor and general status of the lab. Try to clean up the lab whenever there is a downtime.

When Receiving an Order

• Unpack box and check its contents. Check off parts on the packing slip. Check if there are any parts missing.
• Hand in packing slip. Sign off on the packing slip (date and 'received') and bring it to the Purchasing Office in Rowland Hall.
• Organize parts and throw out the packing material. Do not leave empty boxes floating around in the lab of office!

Archiving

• Software. Keep installation CDs for equipment in the general CD Folder. Do not keep these CDs in random locations! For your desktop computer software, get a folder for organizing the installation CDs and keep this folder in your drawer.
• Manuals. Put manuals in the general equipment manual box folder (on shelf near the general microscope).
• Filter and dichroic specs. Punch holes in the sheets and put the spectra in the Spectra Folder.

Potma Labs, Department of Chemistry, Natural Sciences II, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697