Last Revised: April 22, 2025
The full PDF version can be accessed here; individual sections of the manual are referenced below.
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BioRAFT ChemTracker Module Introduction Introduction, contact information for the chemical inventory team, and EHRS customer service links. |
3/2025 | |
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What Must Be Tracked in the Inventory? Hazardous chemicals, tracking hazardous gases, and exempt chemicals. |
3/2025 | |
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Viewing and Editing Your Chemical Inventory Viewing all containers, searching for chemicals outside of your lab, and viewing total inventories. |
3/2025 | |
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Adding New Inventory Chemical look-up, chemicals not found in database, required fields, specifying container size (amount and units), unique container ID (6-digit barcode number), using a barcode scanner, creating multiple new containers, and adding additional details. |
3/2025 | |
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Disposing of Chemical Inventory Disposing of a single container, disposing of multiple containers (and bulk edit), ChemTracker barcode scanout sign, and reactivating deleted records. |
3/2025 | |
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Managing High-Turnover Containers Instructions on requesting and managing "High-Turnover" containers; this is an alternative to barcode labels when a lab consumes and re-purchases a chemical with high frequency. Note: Not available in all buildings. |
3/2025 | |
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Lab Moves/Reconciling Your Inventory Instructions on notifying EHRS about your lab move. Guidance on reconciling your ChemTracker inventory if records are profoundly outdated. |
3/2025 | |
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Reference Chart: Common Gas Cylinder Volumes/Weight Information to help convert cylinder "sizes" to volumes, weights of gas. |
3/2025 |