Have an upcoming decommissioning project? Check out these slides for methods and best practices to executing a successful laboratory move, renovation or closure. Our expert, Craig Sasse, shares his experience managing multiple decommissioning projects.

1. Laboratory
Decommissioning
Is your laboratory liable?
This webinar will educate attendees on liability
drivers and lessons learned from
decommissioning projects.

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3. Meet Your Presenter
• Craig Sasse, LSP
• Technical Manager
• csasse@triumvirate.com
• Craig Sasse has been employed at
Triumvirate for over 6 years and has
worked as an environment consultant
for over 19 years. He currently
specializes in performing environmental
consulting to assess and manage
environmental liability.

4. Our Key Message
Thoughtful
decommissioning can
manage potential
liability.

5. How many of you have upcoming
plans for a laboratory move,
closure, or renovation?

6. What Will You Learn?
What are your
decommissioning
requirements?
Our experiences
decommissioning
laboratories.
Information to plan and
manage your laboratory
decommissioning.

7. This will help manage…
• Relocations
• Internal moves
• Renovations
• Closure

8. Where to start?
Determine
closure
obligations.
Prepare a plan.
- Review lease
- Assemble team
- Compile information
Key events.
- Stop research
- Permits & license termination
- Move chemicals & equipment
- Last day of occupancy
Allow time to
assess/decontaminate…
Notify landlord,
vendors,
employees, etc.

9. Considering Lease Obligations
• No regulation or regulatory guide.
• Termination obligations are case-by-case.
• Lease obligations can be ambiguous.
• The Lessee/Lessor meaning of “clean” can be
different.

10. Considering Corporate Liability
• Organizational real estate divestiture policy – if any
• Legacy issues
• Risk tolerance and cost constraints
• Industry

11. The American National
Standard/AIHAZ9.11–2008
• Useful framework and process for
effectively performing laboratory
decommissioning.
• Methods are scalable and applicable from
initial planning through reporting.
• Presents methods to document and verify
decommissioning by characterizing
acceptable risk.
• Consistent with industry real estate
practices.
Managing Risk

12. Decommissioning Process
Areport limits potential liability when occupying, leasing or leaving space.
Due Diligence Schedule Decommissioning Reporting

13. Due Diligence
• Inspection
• Interviews
• Permits and Licenses
• Chemical Inventory
• Landlord/Tenant Records
• Incident Reports
• Waste Management
• Flammable Storage Permit
• DEA Controlled Substances Permits
• RCRA Generator Information
• Radioactive Materials License
• Ionizing Radiation Source Registration
• Wastewater Discharge Permit
• Laboratory Animal Use Permits
• rDNA Permits
• Biological Agents Permits
• Potent Compounds

14. Scheduling
• Coordinate the end of occupancy,
• Determine last date of occupancy and research
• Researchers responsibilities
• Equipment – vendors, decontamination and special handling
• Systems – vendors, contractors, landlord, etc.
• Licensing and permits termination and securing at
new location - radioactive materials can be up to 45
days for processing.

15. Decommissioning
• Bench Tops, Drawers, Cabinets
• Floors and Walls
• Chemical Storage Areas
• Cold Rooms
• Animal Care Area
• Rad. Use Areas
• Biosafety Levels
• Wastewater System
• Fume Hood Ductwork
• Lab Equipment – BSCs

16. Persistent Contaminants
• Consider possibility of deviations
• Hg, metals, EtBr, azides, radioactive, HF, perchlorates, pH,
potent compounds, etc.
• Decontamination procedures are clear and appropriate
• Discovery of hidden collection of chemicals
• Secure entry pre- and post-decontamination
• Mark decontaminated rooms and equipment

17. Remediation
• Lab ventilation - local exhaust and
fume hoods
• BSCs – certified
• Sink p-traps
• Wastewater systems – last step
• Decontamination waste

18. Reporting
• Visual inspections and photographic documentation
• Document the cleaning protocols
• Assessment sampling documentation with COCs
• Waste disposal documents
• Review of plan requirements, deviations, and QA/QC
• Statement of “Acceptable Level of Risk”
• Signed by “Qualified Individual”

19. Our Key Message
Thoughtful
decommissioning can
manage potential
liability.

20. Action Plan
Start with the end in mind.
The schedule drives many
activities.
Define lease and corporate
decommissioning obligations.
Research, license, equipment,
wastes, debris management…

21. QUESTIONS?

22. Thank You For Attending!
You will receive:
• A recording of this presentation
and copy of this presentation
• A link to a short survey
• A gift to help you get started with
your decommissioning project
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