RULES OF THE IPGG TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM
1- Opening hours
- The technological platform is opened from 8:30 am to 7:30 pm from Monday to Friday. After 6 pm the technical support can not be insured.
- For external people, IPGG is accessible from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. It is no longer possible to enter or reenter the building after this hour.
- Experimentations outside opening hours can be performed in the cell culture room and the imaging room after authorization given by the service prévention hygiène et sécurité de l’ESPCI (https://rt.espci.fr/index.html).
2- Administrative frame
Everyone willing to have access to the platform has to define its needs with the engineer team of the technological platform then to formalize its needs (access frequency, use of particular machines or specific use of any instruments…).
Anyone not belonging to an IPGG research team has to sign an access contract (free or controlled access) with the IPGG administration. This contract needs to be signed prior any entry at the platform by the user’s administration.
3- Access rights
To access the facilities and equipments, it is necessary to:
- Attend this mandatory session organized by the IPGG engineers to discuss the rules of the platform every Monday at 2:00 pm.
- Register to HighFiveLabs.org
- Preferentially, use professional email
- Read and accept the internal rules of the platform
- Join a team (if you cannot find it, email plateforme-ipgg@psl.eu )
- When you know what are the equipment or process you will be using, request a training by a super-user of your entity. If you don’t know who your super user is or if the super user is non-existent, emailplateforme-ipgg@psl.eu.
- When you do not know, emailplateforme-ipgg@psl.eu
- Follow the rules regarding the access and use for each equipment or areas
- Consult the equipment’s availability using the online booking system org
Note : HighFiveLabs.org is a home-made tool (still under-development).
⚠ It is necessary to warn the platform team for cancellation of booking 24 hours ahead of the planned time by email at plateforme-ipgg@psl.eu.
4- Safety and security
The following rules must always be followed in all of the platform’s rooms:
- Follow the specific dress code and entrance procedure in cleanroom and greyroom respecting the ISO norms. Please always ask a super-user or a platform engineer the first entering time.
- Work in accordance with the safety rules of the platform by using individual and collective protective equipment (as defined by the French “Code du Travail”).
- Work in accordance with the rules defined in the user manuals for each equipment.
- Discuss any “non-standard” procedure with an IPGG engineer before starting, especially if using chemicals labelled with a danger pictogram or mechanical, optical or electrical equipment which can harm the user.
- Fill in the equipment form for the facilities which have one.
- Tell one of the engineers about malfunctions or if something is broken.
- Leave the lab perfectly clean for the next users.
- Dispose of the waste in the bins and cans present in each room and take out the trash when necessary (in accordance with the rules set by the company in charge of waste disposal).
- Do not take any product or equipment in or out of rooms without authorization.
- Do not drink or eat in any of the lab spaces.
- Participate regularly in the platform’s monthly cleaning sessions, which are held the last Thursday of each month between 10 am and 12 pm.
Failure to observe these rules may result in the exclusion of the user.
5- Papers
Any paper referring to studies realized on the platform or using platform equipment must systematically quote the EQUIPEX in the Acknowledgments:
“This work benefited from the technical contribution of the joint service unit CNRS UAR 3750. The authors would like to thank the engineers of this unit (and in particular Mr or Mrs XX YY) for their advice during the development of the experiments.”
Any study or research leading to a publication (conference paper, poster, classic publication) in which, the platform engineers have an active participation and exceeding “service” activities will name the platform engineer as an author.
Considered “Service” activities are the following: training on a new equipment/technic, helping to use a new equipment/to follow a classic protocol, fixing an equipment.
Creation of objects such as Photolithographic molds, microelectrodes, brass molds, glass chips are not considered “Service” activities.
6- Intellectual property
Knowledge, know-hows hold by the user prior any activity on the platform remains to the sole property of the user.
Knowledge, know-hows hold by the platform engineers prior any activity on the platform remains to the sole property of the platform.
For the realized activities, property and confidentiality rules are precised in the contract signed with the user (cf. paragraphe 2- Administrative frame).
7- Entrance fees
Price catalogue is up to date connected to the website HighFiveLabs.org. The booking fee is informative, and specific consumables are not included.
Every booking for any equipment or area on the booking system will be considered for billing.
Additional cost will be applied depending on the process.
Pricing catalogue for non IPGG user is available online:
- In case of free access contract, trimestral billings will be performed.
- In case of controlled access contract, the number of hours will be discounted along the way.
Details on rates on request (Those are specified on the signed contract or accepted quotation)
8- In the event of an accident
- Fire: use the fire extinguishers, press the alarm, keep down close to the ground, call the firemen (018 from an IPGG phone or 112 from a cell phone), warn the reception desk (9 from an IPGG phone or 01 40 79 59 00 from a cell phone), exit the building by the safety exits. In the case of an alarm, stop all experiments, close the windows and the doors and leave the building using the staircase (not the elevator).
- Spilling of chemicals: warn the supervisors (5936 or 5937 from an IPGG phone) who will tell you what to do
- Faintness: protect the person, call the SAMU (015 from an IPGG phone or 112 from a cell phone), warn the security referent (5936 from an IPGG phone) and the reception desk (9 from an IPGG phone or 01 40 79 59 00 from a cell phone).
In case of a heart attack, if the person doesn’t breathe, use the defibrillator located at the reception desk and follow the audio instructions.