General Safety
Guidelines
General Safety guidelines for EHS at the University of Utah.
Categories
Arts Safety – Ceramics
Ceramic art and pottery have a wide variety of hazards. The specific hazards and precautions are divided into four areas: Working with clay, glazing and coloring, firing in a kiln, and potential leaching of finished ware.
Read MoreArts Safety – Black-and-White Photographic Processing
A wide variety of chemicals are used in black and white photographic processing. Film developing is usually done in closed canisters. Print processing uses tray processing, with successive developing baths, stop baths, fixing baths, and rinse steps. Other treatments include use of hardeners, intensifiers, reducers, toners, and hypo eliminators.
Read MoreArts Safety – Chemicals for Lithography and Relief Printing
Inks Intaglio, lithography and relief inks consist of pigments suspended in either linseed oil or water as a vehicle. There can be additional hazardous binders or preservatives, etc.
Read MoreArts Safety – Collagraph Safety
Collagraphs are prints produced by using a collage of different materials glued onto a rigid support. A wide variety of materials and adhesives can be used in making collagraphs.
Read MoreArts Safety – Color Photo Processing
Color processing is much more complicated than black-and-white processing, and there is a wide variation in processes used. Color processing can be either done in trays or in automatic processors. Color Developing Baths The first developer of color transparency processing usually contains monomethyl-p-aminophenol sulfate, hydroquinone, and other normal black-and-white developer components. Color developers contain various chemicals including color coupling agents, penetrating solvents (such as benzyl alcohol, ethylene glycol, and ethoxydiglycol), amines, and others.
Read MoreArts Safety – Intaglio
Intaglio is a printmaking process in which ink is pressed into depressed areas of the plate and then transferred to paper. These depressed areas can be produced by a variety of techniques, including acid etching, dry point, engraving and mezzotint.
Read MoreArts Safety – Lithography Safety
Lithography uses either zinc and aluminum metal plates or stones for printing. It involves use of a variety of chemicals to make the image ink-receptive and non-image areas receptive to water and ink-repellent.
Read MoreArts Safety – Photo Printmaking
Photo printmaking involves exposing a light-sensitive emulsion or film to ultraviolet light through a transparent support containing an opaque image to transfer the image to a plate. The transparency through which the photo emulsions are developed can include drawings on a transparent support such as Mylar or acetate, or photographic images processed on graphic arts film to yield a positive image. Several photo printmaking methods are discussed below.
Read MoreArts Safety – Relief Printing
Relief printing techniques include woodcuts, linoleum cuts and acrylic plates for plaster relief. These techniques involve the cutting away of plate areas that are not to be printed. Relief inks can be oil-based or water-based.
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