Top tips to maintain chemicals in storage cabinet

It’s not enough to just have a chemical storage cabinet, your cabinet must be regularly maintained to ensure that it is doing its job correctly. Allocating a clean dry space to have your cabinet is the start to having a safe workplace. Here are there four important things to remember for maintaining your chemical storage cabinet.

Store chemicals immediately
It goes without saying that when purchasing your chemicals and aerosols that they should be stored correctly immediately. Your chemical storage cabinet is there for a reason and is a safe haven for all your chemical requirements. Chemicals should be stored carefully and so that you can maximise shelf space and so the doors can close properly. Stock inside the cabinet should be inspected regularly to check if they have any signs of corrosion, damage, or deterioration. Remember this is a chemical storage cabinet not a general storage area, make sure that you treat it as such.

Keep cabinet clean and dry

It’s important that you keep the cabinet clean and dry. That includes the contents of the cabinet as well. After using chemicals, you need to ensure that the containers are wiped clean and dry and that there is no remaining residue left on them. Excess packaging should be removed as they pose a combustible threat and increase the chance of a fire hazard. Your chemical storage cabinet should be a clean space and free of anything unrelated to the chemicals.

Don’t mix any chemicals on cabinet

The chemical storage cabinet should be used only as that, it’s not a place where you should be pouring or mixing chemicals. You should have a designated spill compound away from your cabinet to perform all pouring and mixing required. You may have many different chemicals that don’t play well together so keeping containers secured in the area is important. Save playing scientist for the scientists and only mix chemicals as per instructions.

Regular Inspections

You should make regular inspections of your cabinet to ensure that it is in perfect working order. Checking the cages, hinges, and latches to confirm there is no deterioration is important in the maintenance of your chemical storage cabinet.