PAWS Tracking Results for Cycle 2 for 2000/2001

Item Number	Group Number	Date PAWS Form Filled Out	Unsafe Act / Situation / Suggestion	Action Taken/Safety Suggestion	Person Responsible	Open / Closed	Comments
Cycle 5
1	9A	10/17/00	Railing at bottom of spiral staircase is loose (missing screw)	Suggest replacing screw (tightened remaining screw)		Closed
2	3A	10/17/00	Leaky steam valve V-1 (Cooling Tower Experiment)	Told Tim, suggest tightening		Closed
3	3A	10/17/00	Cooling Tower, lower right gasket leaking	Take out rubber piece and put in metal piece like the rest		Open
4	1A	10/17/00	Heat Exchanger: (NH3 Cooler) valves V-19, V-21, & V-20 all leak	Suggest fixing		Closed
5	9A	10/17/00	No health label on Reactor Mixer Gearbox Oil & SSR ultra coolant in B005A	Label Materials		Closed
6	9A	10/17/00	Carrying paper towels in both hands up spiral staircase	Warned group		Closed
7	9A	10/17/00	Transporting glassware without bucket	Alerted group		Closed
8	9A	10/17/00	2 group members weren't wearing earplugs while running the cooling tower	Told students that ear protection was required		Closed
9	9A	10/17/00	Student was wearing clothing that had long loose strings	Told student to tuck them in		Closed
10	11A	10/17/00	Heat exchanger (ammonia cooler) large drums with liquid, no label. Group left unattended. Spill equipment was leaning on operating equip.	Told group		Closed
11	1A	10/17/00	Napkins shoved in googles (eye hazard)	Asked student to remove. Reported to safety group		Closed
12	9A	10/17/00	Group needs to sign out when they leave lab for lunch	Remined group to do so		Closed
13	9A	10/17/00	Barrel left over drain hole. Warned group during lab and they fixed it the problem. The barrel was over the drain again after they checked out.	Moved barrel		Closed
14	11A	10/17/00	Fludization- Tray in B005 B (Ro-Tap) equipment tray dia .0138 has a hole in it	Patched with duct tape		Closed
15	9A	10/17/00	Discrepency of the Dow Endblock A labels	Changed all labels to be the same		Closed
16	9A	10/17/00	Transporting Glassware without a bucket	Told student to carry glass in a bucket		Closed
17	9A	10/17/00	Non-Newtonian flow group continues to carry glassware w/out a bucket	Told this group again not to carry glass w/out a bucket		Closed
18	6B	10/19/00	Single pass heat exchanger ammonia cooler- leaking valves and not enough barrels with holes in the bottom. Water splashes out onto the floor.	Provide more barrels with holes, provide aprons so people don't get so wet, make sure valves are not leaky(V19, V20, V21)		Closed
19		10/19/00	Valve 11UHX on upper heat exchanger is broken	Replace valve with new one		Open
20	1B	10/19/00	There are several MSDS's missing from UO lab book (water, steam, wood chips). This book should have all the MSDS for the chemicals in lab	Get them		Closed
21	10B	10/19/00	Non-Newtonian flow exp., the outlet water pipe leaks next to electrical cords	Fix leak at connector to the coil in the cooling bath		Closed
22	4B	10/19/00	Non-Newtonian flow-opened valve too quickly. Manometer overflowed and mercury spilled	Got tim to clean up. Reminded to open slowly.		Closed
23	3B	10/19/00	Person left oven door open and left to talk to someone. Burn hazard	Told person to shut door next time when leaving. I shut it for them.		Closed
24	3B	10/19/00	Carried a beaker up spiral staircase	Pointed out sign to her and gave a polite reminder		Closed
25	3B	10/19/00	Student did not tie her apron proceded to walk up 2 steps carring a beaker	Told her not to do that & tied the strings		Closed
26	4B	10/19/00	Student was sitting in aisle on the floor	Asked student to stand or use a chair so not to block the aisle		Closed
27	12B	10/19/00	LLE group was handling kerosene/acetic acid samples w/o gloves on	I told the group that acetic acid is highly coorosive		Closed
28	10B	10/19/00	Transported chemicals and a container on the spiral staircase	Told them it was unsafe and suggested using the stairwell the next time		Closed
29	3B	10/19/00	Joking about which valves another group should turn by shouting false alerts to the group member turning a valve during their exp	Told the person it's not safe to shout false alarms		Closed
30	3B	10/19/00	Causing a slipping hazard by not capturing water flow from heat exchanger in a drum. Also a heat hazard if water got hot & was spraying out.	I showed them how to use the second drum to catch the water.		Closed
31	8B	10/19/00	Continuous filtration-someone was holding onto piping for leverage to turn valve	Told her to not grab on to the pipe		Closed
32	4B	10/19/00	Continuous Filtration- not using left hand rule to turn on power to pumps	Gave friendly reminder but did it again so wrote up		Closed
33	10B	10/19/00	The protective wire covering has broken away from the pump switch and exposed the switch wires & interior viscosity capillary experiment	Suggest getting it taped up		Closed
34	12A	10/24/00	Safety crew left safety shower cord hanging instead of clipping it bock onto wall	Told them to correct it		Closed
35	9A	10/24/00	Frayed electric wire on TV-14 Tempunit (Polymer Flow)	Notified Time Gasperich		Closed
36	1A	10/24/00	Valve V-26 on ammonia cooler for the double-pipe heat exchanger has a ding on the knob. The ding is sharp and could cut someone as they turned it.	Suggest either replacing the valve or the knob, or sanding down the knob		Closed
37	12B	10/26/00	Safety Group didn't test safety shower or eye wash station 1st floor by 10:00 am	Found someone in group and told them		Closed
38	4B	10/26/00	Stool in the middle of the walkway near Pumping B	Asked group to move out of the isle to clear walkway		Closed