{"id":2901,"date":"2023-05-25T11:40:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T18:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2023-05-25T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T18:40:48","slug":"appeal-neo500-let-us-keep-the-house-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/2023\/05\/appeal-neo500-let-us-keep-the-house-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"APPEAL – NEO500 : LET US KEEP THE HOUSE CLEAN !"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear NEO Users<\/p>\n

Appeal 1 : the problem of “Orphaned NMR Tubes”<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Please take a moment to behold the ‘status quo’\u00a0 of samples near the instrument that I recorded yesterday. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, this is over and above all the holder positions of the sample Carousel being completely occupied during the time of the picture snapping. <\/strong><\/p>\n

With the ease of simply walking up to the instrument and loading your sample in the queue comes an inevitable cost.\u00a0 You can inadvertently clog up the pipeline pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

Given the fact that, even with\u00a0 “one sample at a time” operations on all the other instruments, users simply abandon their NMR sample tubes for Adrienne and I to deal with, I am not surprised that NEO500 is being afflicted with this pattern.<\/em><\/p>\n

But we MUST mend our ways, and URGENTLY.\u00a0 We got quite a bit of flak from the recent EH&S inspections about abandoned NMR tubes, with liquids of varying characters without any clue as to what those chemicals are ! We are on the watch list such that when the next inspection occurs, they don’t want to see this again. <\/strong><\/p>\n

I am not a deciding authority, but if EH&S concludes that the NMR facility is in constant violation on this front, whatever consequence that follows won’t be pleasant to any of you and your research goals.<\/h2>\n

You have been told about the following during NEO500 training and orientation :<\/p>\n