The Fall 2024 ACS hosted a Division of Chemical Health and Safety symposium titled Raising Safety in Research. Links to the powerpoint files are listed below.

Session 1 – Engaging Graduate Students in Laboratory Safety: Opportunities for Empowerment, Collaboration and Professional Development

Empowering Student Safety: Integrating Hands-On Demonstrations, Audits, and Community Moments for Enhanced Laboratory Safety Awareness at the University of Arkansas with Graduate and Undergraduate Engagement. Anelisse Claros

Creating a Collaborative Safety Culture: Incorporating EH&S into Safety Initiatives and Departmental Discourse. Rena Kramer

Student lead Safety Initiatives: Good for Students, Good for Institutions, Good for Science. Anna M. SantaMaria

Developing The Safety Culture at Michigan State University. Josalyne Beringer & Trenton Vogt

ExxonMobil PALS: Strengthening Academic Lab Safety Culture. Sam Tallury

Session 2 – Scaling Up Safety in Individual Research Projects

Shifting Safety Culture from Rules to Risk-Based at a Research-Focused Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI). Krysti L. Knoche Gupta

Advances in Student-Led Safety at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Emily Robinson

Safety and regulatory concerns in Psychedelic research.Elliott Hulley & Veronica Shuger

Implementation of Lab Safety Teams at Colorado State University to increase graduate student participation in developing a safety culture. Drew M Schlink

The Importance of Fire Extinguisher Training Among Graduate Student Laboratory Teaching Assistants: A General Chemistry Laboratory Fire Incident. Casandra “Clover” Moisanu

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Our safety culture and practices. Donivan Porterfield

Safety in an Undergraduate/Graduate Laboratory, Working at the Interface of Biological Chemistry. Vincent Conrad Oppenheimer & Vi Tho Vy Nguyen

Safety improvements for the synthesis of menaquinone derivatives. Skyler A. Markham