What Points You Should Look into While Purchasing Safety Cabinets?

There are different safety issues that arise in a working place that needs to be taken care of and given priority to. The people and doctors who are working in different laboratories are prone to a lot of accidents that happen due to fires & other emergencies.  

So, it very important to store the flammable & hazardous materials in a safe manner. The risk of accidents can be minimized if the hazardous liquids are properly stored inside specially designed cabinets & safes so that there is no major incident occurring in the lab.

The institutes that have a laboratory facility should see to that their laboratories are well equipped with safes and safety cabinets so that all the fire catching fluid and hazardous liquid is stored in a proper manner.

The cabinet should be made of such a material that in case there is a fire or an emergency the liquids and substance that are stored inside them are not affected by the fire.

The Safety Cabinet Should Be Made According to The Regulatory Standards:

At the time of purchasing or making a safety cabinet one must be very careful about the regulatory standards that has been implemented by any other National Testing Laboratory or agency. One must inspect the making, volume & structure of the safety cabinet.

If you are interested in making a safe or a safety cabinet then there are certain things that you need to keep in mind:

Firstly, you must know how much quantity of the liquids can the cabinet store, for class 1 & class 2 liquid it can store up to 227 liters, for class 3 liquids it can store up to 454 liters.

Secondly, the cabinet should not catch fire when a fire test is being conducted, the inside temperature of the cabinet should be around 162⁰ C. All the panels & joints should be tight & closed properly.

Thirdly, there should be proper marking on the cabinets, which indicate that there is hazardous or flammable substance inside them fire should be kept away from them.

Types & Sizes of Jars & Bottles & Liquids to be kept in the Cabinets:

When you are going to make or purchase a safe or a safety cabinet for your Laboratory then you must think about what type and size of jars & bottles will be stored inside them. There are many types of jars & bottles cans, dispenser, aerosol, drums.

The size of your cabinet is going to depend on the type of jar or container you are going to store in them. If you are going to keep cans, dispenser & aerosol then you are going to need small size cabinets, but if you are going to store drums then you are going to need big size cabinets.

Different Door Styles of Your Cabinet:

There are different types of door styles that you can choose from for your safety cabinet or laboratory safe. The different door styles are as follows: Manual closing doors that needs to be closed with manual power, the next type of door style is Bi-Fold closing doors these types of doors close automatically if there is a fire in the lab, the final type of door style is Self-closing doors these doors close automatically & it can be opened with a flush.

Final Words:

Thus, from the above article it is clear about the basic requirements of purchasing and making a safety cabinet for the laboratories of different medical & pharmaceutical companies. We can also know about the different type of doors that the safety cabinets can have.