Responsibility: Recommendations

Give the users documents that he should read and sign.

Rules, guidelines

State the rules of the facility, give guidelines. Explain about CF procedures, communication, safety, pricing. Give information about data management (data naming (e.g. 201108-imk-catwalk [datum]-[3-letter user acronym]-[free text], saving, transferring, long-term storage) Also state the duties of the users.

Responsibilities

Define responsibilities precisely. Who will be responsible (the CF, the user, the PI or another scientist) regarding the experimental design, sample preparation, data acquisition, data storage, data analysis, documentation and publication? The ones who carry the responsibility for doing or supervising/checking each step must be clearly defined before starting any experiments (as well as shared responsibilities). This will prevent that suboptimal results/procedure are not identified and go on as if they were fine. Discuss it all together at a meeting and fill up a responsibility table.

Make sure that the designated responsible party is qualified to do so. “Neither the researchers, inclusively the PI's are in a place to take responsibility for work with technologies that they do not understand.”