Items requiring approval from EH&S prior to release of the Purchase Requisition to the vendor
- Above-ground storage tanks for petroleum products, hazardous waste and hazardous materials
- Asbestos-containing materials (Asbestos Management Program - Operations and Maintenance Plan)
- Biological safety cabinets
- Canopy hoods, stationary/portable extractor (arm and nozzle) systems
- Carcinogenic chemicals
- Confined space entry equipment: body harness, tripod, winch, air monitoring equipment (for example, oxygen/VOC/multigas, LEL/flammable gas detectors). (Confined Space Entry)
- Controlled substances (such as, narcotics and other drugs)
- Dust or gas masks, respiratory equipment (Respiratory Protection Program)
- Equipment emitting any air pollutant (for example, combustion sources—boilers, furnaces, heaters, incinerators, kilns)
- Equipment with internal combustion engines, using gasoline, diesel, propane or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), including, but not limited to: generators, fork lifts, tractors, mowers, trenchers, loaders, wood chippers, landscaping equipment (excluding automobiles)
- Explosives and blasting materials
- Fall protection equipment: safety belts, safety ropes or harnesses, scaffolds, platforms, window cleaning safety devices, ladders, hoist and descent control devices
- Fume hoods /fume extraction devices; ducted/ductless fume hoods and laminar flow hoods
- Lasers and masers
- Motorized Carts & Low Speed Vehicles
- Noise monitoring equipment: sound level meters or octave band analyzers
- Nuclear particle accelerators
- Pesticides, fungicides and herbicides, including over the counter products that carry an EPA Registration Number
- Pressure vessels (except gas cylinders)
- Pyrotechnics
- Radioactive materials, or devices which contain radioactive material
- Reactor vessels
- Restricted-use materials
- Select agents (virus, bacteria, fungi, rickettsiae)
- Toxic gases
- X-Ray diffraction/fluorescence machines, X-Ray machines and UV lamp fixtures.
Return to Sec. 707-10: Purchasing Procedures