Health and safety questionnaire
Procedure for returning products and instruments
Before you return your equipement for maintenance.
The equipment will be dismantled and cleaned by a technician from our Service Center. In compliance with European Community's L360 directives, LABTECH requires the Health and Safety Questionnaire to be completed to assess the potential health risk to its service personnel that can occur when receiving, disassembling, or repairing potentially contaminated products.
Equipment must be drained of fluids and residue, securely packaged and shipped prepaid. Concerning the closing of the ports (inlet & outlets of the product), metallic airtight blank flanges should be used if toxic or copper gases have been pumped.
Please fill in the Health and Safety Questionnaire, print it and attach it to the product before shipping to the service-repair office closest to you.
We wish to draw your attention to the following points:
The risk may be of the following nature:
- Chemical: Danger to health, risks of explosion, fire, risks for the environment. Please indicate the chemical formula and name of the gases or substances that have been in contact with the equipment.
- Biological: Pathogenic germs, micro-organisms (bacteria, viruses, etc.) classes 1 to 4 and group E. We are currently unable to deal with contamination of this sort without risk to the safety of our staff. If your equipment has been contaminated in this way, contact us so that we can try to find a solution together.
- Radioactive: Do not ship the product prior to contact us.
- Copper contamination: Copper based products formed in sputtering or etching processes are considered as contamination in some semi-conductor processes . If following inspection and quotation, the customer decides not to proceed with the repair, he will be subject to a service fee to cover product decontamination, disassembly, cleaning and evaluation costs.