Operations Update

• Access to individual floors is through a white card key. This key  not only gets you upstairs on the elevators, but also up the stair wells in case the elevators are not working. In addition, they get you into the main Health Sciences Mall entrance, the East entrance to the building and the B1 North entrance after hours (before 7 am and after 6 pm).

• If you have problems with your key, contact Neera Vohra, LSI Administrator at neera.vohra@ubc.ca, Phone: 604-827-3935

NOTE:

All new lab members are required to complete the online LSC Safety Orientation before they are assigned a key card and keys.  For more information, contact Neera Vohra, LSI Administrator at neera.vohra@ubc.ca, Phone: 604-827-3935

Be advised that Elevators # 3 and #4 are the only elevators you can use to access the core services areas on Floor B2 (i.e., LSC Stores and Receiving, LSC Equipment Services Workshop, and Waste Management) .

Access to Research Floors

• Access to the Research Floors 2 through 5 and 1East is through key card.
• Visitors (including students not working in labs) must report to the Reception in the 1st Floor Administration suite in order to obtain a Visitors Card Key. A valid picture ID, such as a Driver’s License must be left as deposit for return of the card key

Waste Management

• All  Bio-waste and radiation waste facilities are located in the Waste Management facility on Floor B2. Each lab has designated at least one individual to be permitted access to this facility. Each lab has one key that opens each of the three Waste Rooms, and authorized individuals have card key access to the facility.

Room B2213 – Chemical Disposal, Glass Disposal, Sharps Disposal and Solvent Disposal

• This room contains locations for chemical disposal (including ethidium bromide disposal), solvent disposal, sharps disposal (please put a label on the box identifying the lab source) and glass waste disposal (Place your bagged waste in the room and    take your bucket back to your lab with you). Please refer to the wall signs for the appropriate storage location for each category.

Room B2212 – Radiation Decay Room

• This room is the official LSC storage facility for radioactive waste. Any lab using this facility is required to advise the UBC Radiation Officer that they are using this facility. Please ensure that you complete the provided log detailing the material being stored, the date and the responsible lab.

Room B2211 and B2211a – Autoclaved Waste and Refrigerated Waste

• These rooms contain locations for storage of autoclaved biowaste, biomedical waste, and pathological waste.

Building Glass Washing Facilities

• Glass washers for each of the Research Floors are located in the 12 Autoclave/Glass Washing rooms on each wing of Floors 2 through 5. It is the responsibility of users to provide detergent and acid neutralizer.

LSC Stores and Receiving Facility

• The LSC Stores and Receiving Facility is located on Floor B2 in room B2.226 and can be accessed by using elevators 3 and 4. It operates from Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 4 pm.

• The Stores offers a range of core services including  shipping and receiving, ordering, providing gasses and stocks of frequently used reagents and labconsumables/supplies.

LSC Equipment Services Workshop

• The LSC Equipment Services Workshop is located on Floor B2 in room B2.518a and can be accessed by using elevators 3 and 4.

• Its mission is to provide service support for all the occupants of the LSC in the areas of repair & maintenance, design, fabrication & modification, and consultation.

Mail Service
Mail appropriately addressed to the Life Sciences Centre is currently being delivered by Campus Mail Services to the Mail Room in the main Administration suite, room 1340.

• Each Lab has been assigned a mail box in the building Mail Room, which is accessible through the Reception area in 1st Floor Administration suite.

• Outgoing mail should be brought to the Mail Room for pickup by Campus Mail Services.

• All occupants should notify their contacts of their mail change as follows:

(Addressee’s name – e.g. Dr. Christian Naus)
(c/o Lab Group – e.g. c/o Naus Lab)
Office room # and/or Lab room #
Life Sciences Centre
The University of British Columbia
2350 Health Sciences Mall
Vancouver, BC  V6T 1Z3  Canada

• A gas cylinder storage room on level B2 in room B2221 has been made available for temporary storage of nonflammable gas cylinders .This is the location that PRAXAIR will deliver newly ordered cylinders and pick-up empties.

Liquid Nitrogen Pick-up and Drop-Off

• Praxair provides a Liquid Nitrogen fill service to occupants of the LSC. Please contact Praxair to order Liquid Nitrogen and then bring your dewar to the B2 Loading Dock. Praxair comes once a day to fill dewars and to deliver bottled gases. Please ensure that your dewar is labeled with the name of the lab and the department name.

Building CO2

• The LSC offers CO2 piped directly to Tissue Culture Rooms in the LSC.

Courier Shipments

• All Courier shipments should be dropped off at LSC Receiving for pick-up by couriers. Please ensure that you sign the appropriate log sheet.

Building Fire Alarm

• The Life Sciences Centre is on a single stage alarm process. This means that once an alarm is triggered, notification of the alarm goes via the alarm monitoring company to the Fire Station immediately.  You should evacuate the building immediately.

• The alarm is a horn sounding throughout the building at a rate of twenty beats per minute.

Fume Hood Alarms

• There are two different alarms that you may hear related to the operation of fume hoods in the building. The first is related to the failure of air supply to the fume hoods, potentially leading to the escape of extremely hazardous fumes/vapours into lab areas. An extremely loud klaxon horn will sound, and strobe lights will commence operation in all labs in the building. The strobes will continue until the air flow has resumed.

• The klaxon will continue until the red button located below the strobe lights in your lab is pressed and held for several seconds. It is very important to immediately stop working in fume hoods and to lower the sash.  Do not open the sash until the strobe light stops flashing.

• The second alarm (an annoying beeping sound) is caused when a fume hood sash is left open more than a few inches and a sensor indicates that no one is in the fume hood location (i.e., a motion/heat detector does not detect any movement or heat for a specified time and turns off the lights as an energy saving measure).

Cold Rooms and Environment Rooms – Personal Alarm

• All Cold Rooms and Environment Rooms on each lab floor come equipped with a personal alarm.

• Should you need to initiate the alarm, you should press the red button located in the room on the wall   near the floor next to the door. An alarm will sound and the red light above the affected room will illuminate. To turn off the alarm you need to turn the button clockwise and pull the button out.

NOTE

There is also an emergency door latch release should you be stuck inside a cold room. Turn the black knob next to the door. This turns the door latch which releases the door handle.

Electrical Circuit in Cold Rooms and Environment Rooms

• Please note that all the electrical outlets in the smaller cold rooms are on one circuit (two for large rooms) and that circuit is ground fault protection based circuit.  Also note that there is only one receptacle that houses the reset button. Should the circuit blow, you must reset the circuit by pressing the red reset button.

Autoclaves

• There are LSI owned Amsco autoclaves in the 2nd, 3rd, 5th floor and 4 East Autoclave/Glass washing Rooms.

• Please ensure that only trained personnel from your lab use these units. There have been a number of recent incidents of problems caused by incorrect use  of the machines.

• Should problems arise while using an autoclave, please contact Neera Vohra, LSI Administrator at neera.vohra@ubc.ca for assistance.

• Training sessions can be organized though the appropriate Wing Manager. Please visit the LSI website at http://www.lsi.ubc.ca/LSIC/wingMgrs.php for the complete list of Wing Managers.

Office Sensor Lights

• Offices are equipped with sensor lights that can be turned on and off by using the sliding bar located on the light switch.

Deliveries/Pick-ups

• All Deliveries/Shipments to/from occupants of the building can only be received/shipped through the building’s Loading Docks at the north side of the building. Access to Loading Docks 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 is off Health Sciences Mall.

• To contact the LSC Receiver, please call 604-827-3978.

• Deliveries will only be accepted between 8 am – 4 pm Monday to Friday.

• Under NO circumstances can items of large dimension or weight be brought into or be removed from the building other than through the Loading Docks located on the North side of the building (facing UBC Hospital).

• You should be sure that your shipment is FOB a specific room in the building and not the building itself.  You may find yourself in a position where the cartage firm will deliver to the loading dock but no farther.  In this case your lab will be responsible for moving your shipment to its final destination.

• Please note that your lab is responsible for the immediate disposal of all packing materials, pallets, crates, etc. related to deliveries to your lab. It is recommended that you arrange with the cartage agent making delivery to take all pallets, crates, etc with them as they leave, or have the installer do that at the time of uncrating and installation.

• Neither uncrated equipment nor packing material is permitted to be placed at any time in corridors, building alcoves or any public place in the building. Should such material be found in any such location, the responsible lab will be asked to immediately remove it to their lab or other suitable location. Failure to comply will result in the material being moved at the labs expense.