White powder

[oldrope]

Hi if you find white powder what is the method for dealing with it?

[eric the viking]

White lines don't do it.

[spiderj]

In a mail centre or do,tell a manager asap.
It will probably be harmless/inert but it could be
Coke/speed/mephedrone/ or some of the chemical nasties.

Also depends on where found

[baldrick]

You put the packet down and tell a manager. We had one of those during the Ricin scares. The area was evacuated and cordoned off, and the police called. We had half a dozen police cars and vans, about 20 police, an ambulance, and a bio-chemical hazard unit with investigators in protective clothing arrive to check it and the person who found it. After about an hour and a half they decided it was harmless. Just as well as it was next to open doors to loading bays, with wind blowing through, and if it had been dangerous it would probably have been blown through the whole floor.

On another occasion a manager got into trouble when he sent a sorter whose arms were itching after handling a packet leaking white powder to the A&E at Whitechapel Hospital, with the packet. The whole hospital had to be quarantined for a couple of hours until they established it was an allergic reaction to a cheap cosmetic, and they weren't too happy.

[glenfiddich]

I had one the other day leaking blue powder smelt real nice came from lush so I didn't think it worthwhile shutting down the office

[ballsup]

Once had a manager walk through our MC carrying a packet leaking white powder to show the shift manager and ask him what to do with it lol, we went outside, phoned health and safety rep and left them to it

[hans solo]

give it a sniff

[Lounge Lizard]

Hi if you find white powder what is the method for dealing with it?

Politely suggest that the DOM's more careful with the sugar when making the coffee.