Operating Information; Safety Notes - Sartorius Stedim Biotech CERTOMAT Tplus Bedienungsanleitung

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Operating Information

3.1

Safety Notes

Media used with incubation shakers like the
CERTOMAT® Tplus can be hazardous. This is especially
true for caustic, inflammable or infectious media, for
instance. Since the risks and the correlated safety
requirements depend on the media, they cannot be
discussed herein. Your company must issue applicable
safety guidelines, distribute them to the laboratory staff
and ensure that they are strictly followed.
The following safety instructions must be observed:
When hazardous agents are to be used only authorized
personnel should have access to the laboratory or to the
working area, respectively, and be allowed to operate
the CERTOMAT® Tplus. It must be guaranteed that
unauthorized persons do not have access to the unit.
Operators should wear adequate working clothes and
personal protection, such as gloves, protective goggles,
or breath protection, for instance.
Only equipment and accessories must be used which
Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH has released for the
Tplus. Before starting operation all parts should be
checked for damages, especially the glass parts. You
must not use any damaged or defective equipment.
Do not start the shaking drive without a tray installed.
Always switch-off the shaking drive before mounting or
removing the tray or any of the containers to be
incubated.
Properly fasten the tray and all mountings and holders
to prevent that the containers can loosen during
operation. When loading the tray, evenly distribute the
containers on the tray (i.e. balanced arrangement) and
ensure that they cannot hit against each other.
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Reduce the shaking speed as far as necessary, if
resonance effects occur and vibrations are transmitted
to the working place or neighbouring equipment or if
the stack arrangement becomes unstable.
Critical conditions are possible even during normal
operation. At specific shaking speeds and depending on
the load the action of the shaking drive can cause
vibrations due to „self-resonance" effects. Such
vibrations cannot be fully compensated by the internal
balance weights of the tray support and will be
transmitted to the Tplus and the working place.
If media are incubated in open containers you should
lower the shaking speed as far as possible, to avoid
unintended spillage of the media. If the media are
released unintentionally, i.e. due to breaking of glass
vessels, for instance, you should clean the spill tray and
incubation chamber. Remove broken glass and any
foreign materials as soon as possible and prevent those
parts from entering the gap between the tray support
and the spill tray or from being introduced into the
drive unit. Further information is given in chapter 11.3
Maintenance and Trouble-Shooting.
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