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Chemical Demonstrations Safety

Resources for Planning and Performing Chemical Demonstration Safely –

–ACS Chem Comm on Safety – Safety Rubric for Assessing Chemical Demonstration Videos

–ACS Center for Lab Safety – Safer Experiments & Demonstrations

–ACS Student Magazine – Five Key Questions for Safe Research and Demos

–ACS – Safety in Outreach Settings

–C&EN article – How to Make Chemistry Classroom Demonstrations and Experiments Safer

–ACS Chem Ed Div – Safety Guidelines for Chemical Demonstrations

Rainbow Demonstration Safety –

ACS Center for Lab Safety: The Rainbow Demonstration
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/about/governance/committees/chemicalsafety/safety-alert-rainbow-demonstration.html

National Science Teachers Association: https://www.nsta.org/safety-alert-do-not-use-methanol-based-flame-tests-open-laboratory-desks

The Chemical Safety Board (CSB)  video showing consequences of the methanol-related experiments:
https://www.csb.gov/key-lessons-for-preventing-incidents-from-flammable-chemicals-in-educational-demonstrations/

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