Facilities Management

Refrigerators/Freezers Procedures:

1. Provide freezers/refrigerators with proper spacing (2-3 inches minimum clearance from walls or obstructions) and defrost freezers at least once per year.
2. Clean freezer/refrigerator filters and coils every six months.
3. Eliminate unnecessary freezers/refrigerators by getting rid of unnecessary items and combining contents into fewer freezers/refrigerators.
4. Instead of buying a freezer/refrigerator for additional space, eliminate old samples, solutions etc. from existing freezers/refrigerators.
5. Keep refrigerators and freezers organized (give each person a section) so that clean up/removal of old samples is easier. Before a person moves on from a lab, ask them to get rid of unnecessary samples and condense their items into the smallest space possible.