Abstract
The term "laboratory" can refer to a wide range of indoor and outdoor spaces used to perform various laboratory tasks. These laboratory tasks can generally be referred to as specific activities (SA). To safely perform the required SA, the standard operating procedure (SOP) is necessary. The SOP must also include a description of safety measures (DSM) to enable the laboratory technician to perform the required SAs successfully. However, in research and academic laboratories, new SAs are often planned for which SOPs and therefore DSMs do not yet exist. If you have a large number of laboratories in your environment with a wide variety of SAs, each with a different level of risk to their surroundings, you need a practical approach to identifying DSMs. The chosen approach ranks the risk of SA and the required level of DSM into several classes. The ranking must be user-friendly and straightforward. Our approach uses color-coded results, which is why it's called "color-ranking-based laboratory safety." The result is a ranking of SA into five color-coded risk classes. Our plan is that, for each color class, a requirement will be defined that specifies the possible procedures for creating a DSM. The paper shows the principle of creating color classes and a real example from the first test.
