Annex 5: Criteria for expert laboratory design under consideration of occupational safety and health and environmental protection
Tools for sustainable planning
- Operation and safety plan
- Purpose and significance for planning and construction
- Integrated safety planning
- Anticipation of future operation
- Life cycle perspective
- Documented technical safety
- Purpose and significance for operation
- Optimal intrinsic safety
- Operational scenarios for safe operation
- Documented safety technology
- Transition from construction to operation
- Contribution to the sustainability of laboratory buildings
- Enhanced adaptability if modifications are needed
- Hazard-dependent and economical structural safety
- Scope of the operational and safety plan
- Part of sustainable laboratory building design
- Necessary prerequisite for sustainable operation
- Transparent planning decisions for safety
- Risk minimisation for planners, operators and users
- Safety expertise as a professional planning contract
- Synchronisation: operational and safety planning
- Continuous improvement process
- Integration into the planning process
- Significance for planning
- Life cycle orientation of the design
- Communication paths of the safety targets
- Integral planning and planning team
- Certification
Basic principles for planning a laboratory building
- Safety and the protection of health as an integral part of sustainability (definitions, terms, compatibility with ecological and economic targets)
- Historical development of requirements for laboratory buildings
- Contents of certification systems and interaction with occupational health and safety
- Fundamental requirements and application of the DGUV Information 213-850 "Working Safely in Laboratories“ Basic Principles and Guidelines“, in particular section 6
- For biological laboratories, see also DGUV Information 213-086 "Sichere Biotechnologie – Laboratorien – Ausstattung und organisatorische Maßnahmen"
- Regulations
- EU law (EU regulations and directives)
- German federal rules and regulations (laws, ordinances and technical rules)
- Rules and regulations of German Social Accident Insurance Institutions (accident prevention regulations (Unfallverhütungsvorschriften), DGUV guidelines, DGUV rules and DGUV information)
- Standards
- in particular on the topics
- Occupational safety and health legislation
- Workplace legislation
- Hazardous substances legislation
- Biological agents and genetic engineering legislation
- Radiation protection legislation
- State of the art
- Terms and definitions
- Protection strategies laid out in occupational safety and health legislation (Hazardous Substances Ordinance (GefStoffV), Biological Agents Ordinance (BioStoffV), etc.)
- The laboratory as a work system
- Interface conditions in the laboratory
Building and structural requirements
- Typology and parameters of a building (fields: biology, genetic engineering, chemistry, physics, radiochemistry, ...; building grids, floors ...)
- Functional zoning of spaces
- Flow of people and materials
- Building life cycle
- User requirements
General laboratory profiles
- Intended purpose
- Type of use
- Scientific discipline
- Activities
- Working methods
- Spatial structure
- Special requirements
Use profiles
- Room book
- Compilation criteria
- Ventilation plan
- Plan for access arrangements
- Supply and disposal plans
- Special areas
Hazards and protective measures
- Hazards in the laboratory: involvement of users, points in time, documentation and impact on planning
- “Hard and soft“ risk and stress factors
- Hazardous substances
- Biological agents
- Radioactive substances
- Genetically modified organisms
- Radiation
- Ambient climate
- Temperature and relative humidity
- Light and lighting
- Sound and acoustics
- .....
- Protection targets
- Intrinsic safety concept of the DGUV Information 213-850 “Working Safely in Laboratories – Basic Principles and Guidelines“
- Risk assessment and evaluation during the planning process
- Consideration of planning uncertainties
- Flexibilities of use
- Development of statutory guidelines
- Anticipation of future tolerable risk
- Priorities of protective measures
- Plans for employing people with disabilities
- Transfer of responsibility during the planning process
Technical protective measures specific to the building and field
- Procedure
- General conditions for working safely
- Operational and circulation areas
- Technical Ventilation
- Electrotechnical safety
- Technical safety referring to media
- Equipping the laboratory with regard to safety
- Safety markings and alarms
- Emergency Equipment
- Emergency and escape routes
- Assessment of effectiveness
- Fire and explosion protection
- Physicochemical fundamentals
- Hierarchy of explosion protection measures
- Explosion hazards in the laboratory
- Significance of suction and air exchange rates
- Ignition sources in the laboratory
- Explosion protection zones
- Equipment categories in Ex-protection zones
- Documentation
- Containment
- Ventilation safety devices
- Measures dependent on the risk factor
Modification options with minimized potential of malfunction and hazards
- Variability during operation
- Reaction to new scientific requirements
- Reaction to regulatory changes that are ineligible for grandfathering
Bill of quantities and planning for approval
- Contents
- Statutory guidelines and references
- Sustainability criteria
- Normative references
Building process
- Parties involved in the building process
- Coordination of the main process owners
- Service phases according to the Official Scale of Fees for Services by Architects and Engineers (Honorarordnung für Architekten und Ingenieure, HOAI) including those involved in the project
- Reaction to new scientific requirements
- Reaction to statutory changes that are ineligible for grandfathering
Building handover
- Prerequisites for the handover of the building to the owner or operator
- Documentation requirements
- Prerequisites for use and operation
- Delimitation of responsibilities between owner, operator and user
- Legal aspects of as-built documents
Passage of risk to operators and users
- Complete building documentation
- Instructions on maintenance, inspections, operation and care
- Plan documents and calculated inspection and approval status
- User/operator manual and introductory training
- Significance for later statutory responsibilities of operators/users
- Significance for the positions of planners and clients