At the 2019, San Diego National Meeting CHAS hosted a symposium on Graduate Student Safety Education. The presentations from this symposium are provided below.
Tag Archives: Safety Culture
Working Alone in the Lab? Video Available
The ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety and Committee on Chemical Safety are please to share our second short safety video (2 minutes and 15 seconds) for the research laboratory community.
Developed in cooperation with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, it addresses an important issue in many research settings: What are the factors lab workers should consider when deciding what work can be conducted when they are alone in the laboratory?
You can view the video on Youtube here
You can also download the video file here for off line viewing
We appreciate any questions or comments you have on this video; please send them to membership@dchas.org
JCHAS Editor’s Spotlight: Engaging senior management to improve safety culture
The JCHAS Editor’s Spotlight for the July / October 2019 issue of the Journal of Chemical Health and Safety is shining on:
Engaging senior management to improve the safety culture of a chemical development organization thru the SPYDR (Safety as Part of Your Daily Routine) lab visit program
By Victor Rosso, Jeffery Simon, Matthew Hickey, Christina Risatti, Chris Sfouggatakis, Lydia Breckenridge, Sha Lou, Robert Forest, Grace Chiou, Jonathan Marshall, Jean Tom
All authors are affiliated with Chemical & Synthetic Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company,
You can download the article here:
- Failure to educate — Failure to train; Harry J. Elston
- Strategic opportunities in chemical safety education: A report on the 2019 ACS Safety Summit; Ralph Stuart
- Lessons learned – Mercury thermometer incident; Elizabeth Czornyj, Imke Schroeder, Nancy L. Wayne, Craig A. Merlic
- An immediate onsite chlorine leakage disaster management plan; Yehya Elsayed, Abdel-Qader Al-Ameri, Taj El-Sir Ahmed, Mohamed Idreese, Sofian Kanan
- Evaluation of the implementation of occupational health, safety, and environment management systems in higher education laboratories; Fatma Lestari, Anom Bowolaksono, Sri Yuniautami, Tia Retno Wulandari, Saraswati Andani
- Elements of experiment safety in the laboratory; Lee C. Cadwallader, Robert J. Pawelko
- Looking at the bigger picture: Evaluating responder risk in a tritium spill; Harry J. Elston, Daren Perrero
- A storage cabinet design for research chemicals for developing nations; Abdullah Hussein Kshash
- Efficacy of existing transient models for spill area forecasting; Raja S., Reddy T.L.P., Tauseef S.M., Tasneem Abbasi, S.A. Abbasi
CHAS members can access this issue at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-chemical-health-and-safety?dgcid=raven_sd_via_email
JCHAS Editor’s Spotlight: Impact of a pilot laboratory safety team workshop
The JCHAS Editor’s Spotlight for the May / June 2019 issue of the Journal of Chemical Health and Safety is shining on:
Impact of a pilot laboratory safety team workshop
by Kali A. Miller and Kaitlin I. Tyler
This issue includes several articles related to the 2018 CHAS Presidential Symposium on Safety in the Chemistry Laboratory, including a Foreword by 2018 ACS President Peter Dorhout. The table of contents for this issue is:
This issue includes several articles related to the 2018 CHAS Presidential Symposium on Safety in the Chemistry Laboratory, including a Foreword by 2018 ACS President Peter Dorhout. The table of contents for this issue is:
- Recognizing and understanding hazards — The key first step to safety by Robert H. Hill Jr.
- A step in the right direction by Dawn C. Mason
- Bringing Safety to Chemistry for Life by Ralph Stuart, Joseph M. Pickel
- Impact of a pilot laboratory safety team workshop by Kali A. Miller, Kaitlin I. Tyler
- Promoting safety culture: An overview of collaborative chemical safety information initiatives by Carmen I. Nitsche
CHAS members can access this issue at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-chemical-health-and-safety?dgcid=raven_sd_via_email
Presidential Symposium on Moving ACS’s Safety Goals Forward
Organizer: Dr. Peter Dorhout
Introductory Remarks. Dr. Dorhout
Safety in the Context of the ACS Strategic Plan. R. Stuart
Chemical Safety Information Opportunities. C. Nitsche
Communicating Chemical Safety K. Jeskie
Empowering ACS Members to Be Safety Leaders. K. Serrano
Industrial perspective on chemical safety – The Corporation Associates direction. D. Mason
Partnering to strengthen safety. J. Maclachlan
Developing an Education Path for all Chemists. D. Finster
Building a Chemical Safety Ecosystem. L. McEwen
Strategic connections between Chemical Safety and Green Chemistry. J. Wissinger
Learning Laboratory Safety through Storytelling
Enhancing the Culture of Safety through Good Storytelling.
M.B. Koza
How personal stories can support safety training.
D.M. Decker
What’s the point of your story?
K.P. Fivizzani
Playing with Fire.
S.B. Sigmann
An unknowing, unthinking, uncaring graduate student learns a lesson about safety.
R.H. Hill
The Genres of Science
R. Stuart
Turning safety observations into messages.
T.C. Gallagher, R. Brian, R. Stuart
From Storytelling to StoryMAKING.
R.M. Izzo
Preserving Institutional History of Chemical Incidents..
P.A. Reinhardt
Using Risk Management Techniques to Improve Situational Awareness and Accident Reduction.
R. Lippman
Chemical safety information in PubChem.
J. Zhang, P. Thiessen, A. Gindulyte, E. Bolton
Using the chemical inventory system to create research articles that include safety information.
R.N. Vernon, K.N. Lamb
Safety as an ACS Core Value
In December, 2016, the American Chemical Society’s Board of Directors adopted “Professionalism, Safety and Ethics” as a core value of the Society in its Strategic Plan.
In order to make this commitment more concrete, ACS’s 2018 President, Dr. Peter Dorhout (his twitter feed can be found here) convened an ACS “Safety Summit” in February, 2018. The report on the ACS Safety Summit can be downloaded here.C&EN’s report on the summit can be found here.
Ralph Stuart, the chair of the ACS Committee on Chemical Safety reported to the Committee on the summit and how the Society is planning on incorporating safety into its overall strategy to support its members, educators, decision-makers and the public. His presentation to the committee can be downloaded here.
Please feel free to share any questions and comments on this work with either Peter or Ralph.
Safety Presentations from the Atlantic Basin Conference on Chemistry
ACS Safety Initiatives: Impact On The Global Chemistry Enterprise
Neal Langerman
US safety initiatives as influences on global laboratory safety
Russ Phifer
Approaching research and scale-up safety through process-oriented solutions
Harry J. Elston, Ph.D., CIH
Social and Ethical Implications (SEI) of Nanotechnology
Larry Gibbs, CIH, FAIHA
Analyzing academic laboratory accidents to prevent accidents
Craig Merlic
Risk Perception in Academic Laboratories
Imke Schroeder, Ph.D.
SERMACS Lab Safety Stories Symposium
Learning Laboratory Safety Through Storytelling
The story of chemical safety in the 20th (and 21st) century. R. Stuart
Sharing Lab Ventilation Lessons Learned R. Stuart
How does an EHS professional engage their audience?. M.B. Koza
Using learning points to create a sound safety baseline. K.W. Kretchman
A series of unfortunate events: A personal story. S.B. Sigmann
Stories of laboratory incidents teach us lessons about safety. R.H. Hill
Safety Guidelines for the Chemistry Professional
Over the course of 2016 and 2017, representatives of the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Chemical Safety and Division of Chemical Health and Safety developed an ACS policy statement on chemical safety as well as document describing Safety Guidelines for the Chemistry Professional. These are designed to support chemists as they perform their daily work in safe and environmentally responsible way.