IELTS LISTENING – Equipment Floor Plan S66T2

Welcome everybody to browning smith laboratories, I’ll be giving you a short tour around your new working environment and pointing out several key features. It’s very much state of the art as I’m sure you’ll see, please now look at the plan of the laboratory building I gave you earlier. At the moment we’re standing in the large storage room it’s right there positioned at the top on your plans and roughly in the middle, we’ve just come through the entrance door indicated and that’s now behind us okay so got your bearings, all know where we are?

The next entrance off to your left however is the wet lab which if you’ll look on your plan is adjacent to the large storage area but can only be reached by this entrance. Let’s pass on by this lab and the clean lab adjacent to it and make our way to the small storage area, it’s the first room through these doors ahead of us now please hold the door open for the person behind you as we file through. Good I think that’s everyone here now this is the small storage area and now we are at this end of the building there remains for me to show you only one other room, you can see two doors leading off this room the one ahead is an exit which will take you outside the building the other leads to the _Q14 walk-in cooler (F). Oh, there is one more area I need to mention that’s the _Q15 walk-in freezer (G) it can only be accessed by leaving the building entirely either through the exit, I just pointed out or the first entrance we came in. I hope that’s all clear now but you will soon become more familiar with the general layout of the laboratory building.

Now I’d just like to refer to health and safety procedure, _Q16 this is essentially to fulfill basic health and safety requirements since I know that you are not unfamiliar with such procedures and must know them off by memory. Okay so firstly I’d like to say that if you are undertaking any project whether supervised or not all of you will be required to _Q17 discuss it first with your health and safety coordinator. In certain cases, written approval is required the health and safety coordinator has the final decision in situations where formal approval is needed. Everyone undertaking a project will have to first submit a form of a written standard operating procedure to the health and safety coordinator outlining the steps and justifications for the experimental process to be carried out. Should the undertaking of a project not be granted initially plans for the project if satisfactorily amended _Q18 can be represented to the health and safety coordinator for approval at a later date. Assuming acceptance of the undertaking of a project strict laboratory procedures must be adhered to. Overalls and non-hazardous equipment can be kept in the large storage room, on no account can either laboratory clothing or samples be removed from the building itself. Obviously the same goes for equipment that is portable this way we can ensure that no cross-contamination can occur with _Q19 samples or specimens kept in the laboratories. Finally and this goes without saying when hazardous materials are being handled full protective equipment should be worn, safety goggles, and protective overalls are kept in the small storage room for this purpose. If using sharp contaminated objects such as needles these can be temporarily stored in clearly marked containers on your laboratory work surface. However, _Q20 they must be disposed of by the end of the day in the waste disposal bins clearly indicated outside the laboratory building. These bins are to be found just outside the exit by the small storage room. In the event of fire, please make your way immediately to the nearest of the two exits either by the small storage or large storage room that I pointed out earlier. All that remains for me to do is to welcome you all to the company and wish you good luck.