Badges/Name Tag Policy

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Everyone should have a badge that meets the following criteria. If you do not please contact LNF staff at info@LNF.umich.edu to obtain one.  If you do not have a badge you will be asked to leave the lab and obtain one.

Reason for Policy

• To help identify everyone in the lab and facilitate communication between users in the lab.

Policy

• Everyone in the lab will have a name badge.
• The information on the badge will be easy to read.
• The badge will have the following information:
  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Group Associated with
  • Month/Year of first entry to the LNF
• Badge Colors are determined by last names as follows

BLUE	A -- E	Updated November 2024
BLACK	F -- K	Updated October 2022
RED	L -- M	Updated October 2022
WHITE	N -- S
GREEN	T -- Z
ORANGE	LNF Staff
BROWN	Senior User
YELLOW	Temporary

• You should have two badges (one for wearing in the lab and one to stay on your gowning room bag / storage compartment while you are in the lab).
• All gowning bags (cleanroom) and storage niche (ROBIN) with garments in them must have a badge attached to the bag or coat hanger or storage niche.
• If you do not have a badge or need a new one, you may request a new one by creating a general Helpdesk ticket or stopping by the LNF store. In the meantime, please use a temporary bade (yellow holder and complete the template cards found in the lower-right storage bin).

Tri-annual name badge purges

• Name badges and after-hours suit tags are purged on the same tri-annual cycle as private chemicals and files on the server (January, May and September).
• Name badges will be removed for users who have not entered that lab space during the past 4 months. If you are about to re-enter the LNF after a long interruption, please create a Helpdesk ticket to ask LNF staff to reprint new name badges.