hermanntrude Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 I'm re-vamping my lab. The safety posters are ancient and yellow. Does anyone here know where to get decent un-patronizing lab safety posters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrP Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Print your own from power point or something similar and then laminate? We got some of ours from seaton (http://www.seaton.co.uk) - but I don't know if they are international or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 (edited) I got quite a few from here many years ago: http://www.scichem.com/ the nice part is that they`re only a 10 minute drive away too the bottom of this page onwards: http://www.scichem.com/products.aspx?id=-1&tier1=Safety&tier2=Hazard+Warning&resultsperpage=100&page=2 Edited December 17, 2008 by YT2095 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrP Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 they`re only a 10 minute drive away too Yea, but he lives at the North Pole!.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanntrude Posted December 17, 2008 Author Share Posted December 17, 2008 this is becoming a bigger issue. I decided to make a few of my own, but I also wanted to buy some... I found a perfect set on amazon.ca, then went to our stores guy and he said it can't be done. I thought to myself "this guy's an idiot... the purchaser at headquarters can do it" so i called him and he says it's impossible for a giant college with 17 campuses to purchase things from amazon. Can you grasp that? a modern day insitution, with hundreds of employees and thousands of students can't make an online purchase when millions of individuals can? AAARGH Yea, but he lives at the North Pole!.. i'm further south than you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 My uni can buy from amazon Does seem a tad crazy though, did they give you any reason why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanntrude Posted December 17, 2008 Author Share Posted December 17, 2008 they didn't need to. Basically these guys are unaware that it is actually possible to do something you've never done before. I got an uproar the first time i tried to buy from a company that wasn't sargent-welch. It took some time to convince them that the company i had found on the internet was cheaper and better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharonY Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Well, I ended up buying equipment for my lab out of my pocket several times already because I did not want to spend 500$ on something that I could get for 30$ (+ some soldering). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Is this what you had in mind? http://store.quantummechanix.com/How-To-Spot-a-Cylon-Poster_p_2-20.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanntrude Posted December 17, 2008 Author Share Posted December 17, 2008 Is this what you had in mind?http://store.quantummechanix.com/How-To-Spot-a-Cylon-Poster_p_2-20.html erm... no. no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 I don't see how your lab can be safe from Cylon interlopers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Well, I ended up buying equipment for my lab out of my pocket several times already because I did not want to spend 500$ on something that I could get for 30$ (+ some soldering). Do you have some method to get reimbursed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharonY Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 In theory yes. Though apparently there is rumored to be a list of good shops, where you get reimbursed fairly quickly whereas if you bought them from someplace else you may have to wait until you retire or get tenured, whatever happens first. I have the feeling that I shopped from one of the latter ones. I think that in truth the administration has just started the rumor so they can have some fun with the researchers, though. Over time I have accumulated quite a selection of cheapish stuff that I bought for various labs (including boxes, various tools, glass plates, PSUs and so on) now for which I did not got reimbursed while I was working at the respective institute. I could safe quite some money just by staying at one place for a little longer, methinks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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