The 2019 ACS National Meeting was held in Orlando, FL from March 31 to April 3. Our thanks to the authors who agreed to share their technical presentations below.
Nanotechnology: Where is it Today and is EHS a Part of Successful Commercialization.
C. Geraci
Back from the future: What nanotechnology can teach us about chemical safety today.
K. Kulinowski
Looking forward: Fifty years experience in chemical safety.
N. Langerman
Zooming out: The future of chemical-research health and safety through a wide-angle lens.
K. Brown
Innovation transforming lives through the power of clean water.
D. Schmidt
Yale’s Safety Advisor Model for Supporting and Integrating Safety into Research. P. Reinhardt
Dow Lab Safety Academy: Lessons Learned & Future Opportunities.
L. Seiler
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
You can download CHAS at a glance – Boston Fall 2018 for the Boston ACS National Meeting at this page. The DCHAS Agenda Book 2018 Fall for the meeting is available here. Below is the information in a columnar format for easy scanning on a mobile device.
The Editor’s Spotlight for the May / June 2018 issue of the Journal of Chemical Health and Safety is shining on:
Chemical safety education for the 21st century — Fostering safety information competency in chemists by
Samuella Sigmann
The abstract for this article is:
During the education process, each person strives to acquire the necessary skill set or set of competencies needed to be successful in their selected career. For example, a job listing for a bench chemist might state that the successful applicant should have a BS in chemistry, (knowledge), be familiar with common laboratory operations (skills), and be a contributing member of a team (attitude). It is our job as curriculum designers and educators to give our students the competencies they will need to be successful. The chemistry curriculum must include those competencies needed for working safely in a chemistry research laboratory.
This can be accomplished by weaving the knowledge component of competencies spirally into the chemistry major’s curriculum. We cannot assume that a student who has successfully completed a bachelor’s degree in chemistry has acquired the necessary competencies to perform a risk assessment or read a safety data sheet (SDS). Skill-based laboratory activity is valuable and can be specifically transferred to the next task, but knowledge and attitudes assist future learning in a nonspecific transfer and must be taught as ideas and principles. This work looks at the competencies required to be a chemist from an historical point and suggests ways that chemical safety information can be infused into the twenty-first century chemistry curriculum using embedded safety professionals, risk assessment, and SDSs to broaden and deepen safety knowledge.
This article and the rest of the issue can be found at ScienceDirect site
Also included in this issue of JCHAS are:
Chemical safety information in the 21st century
Ralph Stuart
Collecting reaction incident information: Engaging the community in sharing safety learnings
Carmen I. Nitsche, Gabrielle Whittick, Mark Manfredi
Baseline survey of academic chemical safety information practices
Leah McEwen, Ralph Stuart, Ellen Sweet, Robin Izzo
The chemical safety gateway: Beyond Google’s limitations
Abe Lederman, Sol Lederman
ACS’s Hazard Assessment in Research Laboratories website: An important safety culture tool
Kendra Leahy Denlinger
The Editor’s Spotlight for the March / April 2018 issue of the Journal of Chemical Health and Safety is shining on:
Chemical suicides: Hazards and how to manage them by
Michael Logan and Christina Baxter
Michael Logan is affiliated with Research and Scientific Branch, Queensland Fire and Emergency Services, GPO BOX 1425, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia.
Christina Baxter is affiliated with Emergency Response TIPS, LLC, Woodbridge, Virginia 22191, USA.
The abstract for this article is:
Emergency response to chemical suicides has become more common place in recent years. In order to address the operational implications of these events, it is first important to understand the methodologies which are commonly used, the locations where the events often occur, the concentrations of material generated, and how those concentration relates to exposure standards and flammability. Using hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, and phosphine as examples, guidance is offered about risk control measures including personal protective equipment and decontamination strategies to effectively and safely mitigate the incidents.
This article and the rest of the issue can be found at ScienceDirect site
Also included in this issue of JCHAS are:
Expanding our Boarders: Safety at ABCChem 2018
Anatomy of an incident—Multiple failure of safety systems under stress
Hugo Schmidt
Make safety a habit!
Robert H. Hill
The state of the arts: Chemical safety — 1937 to 2017
Monona Rossol
Contamination control monitoring at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Plutonium Facility
Michael E. Cournoyer
In the 21st century, chemistry research is more varied and expansive than ever before, the rules that keep one lab safe will not adequately address the possible risks in others. Rather than having a universal set of rules, a more adaptive system is needed for both academic and industry labs. Ralph Stuart, Chemical Hygiene Officer at Keene State College, and Samuella Sigmann, Senior Lecturer at Appalachian State University, propose a new way of thinking that builds a dynamic safety system based on your own needs and conditions as well as provides resources on how such programs can be developed.
You can download a PDF of the presentation here.
The webinar was attended by over 850 people, who asked many more interesting questions than we were able to answer during the webinar. We built a web page to answer questions we didn’t get to and provide our initial answers. Some of these questions have many possible answers. Let us know if you have comments or questions on what we’ve said or ask an additional question on the web page.
In case you’re curious, you can see what some of the comments from those who attended in the 2018-03-08 Safety Webinar Speaker Feedback infographic.
The Editor’s Spotlight for the January / February 2018 issue of the Journal of Chemical Health and Safety is shining on:
A methodology on how to create a real-life relevant risk profile for a given nanomaterial
by Christa Schimpel, Susanne Resch, Guillaume Flament, David Carlander, and Izaskun Bustero
The abstract for this Open access article is:
With large amounts of nanotoxicology studies delivering contradicting results and a complex, moving regulatory framework, potential risks surrounding nanotechnology appear complex and confusing. Many researchers and workers in different sectors are dealing with nanomaterials on a day-to-day basis, and have a requirement to define their assessment/management needs.
This paper describes an industry-tailored strategy for risk assessment of nanomaterials and nano-enabled products, which builds on recent research outcomes. The approach focuses on the creation of a risk profile for a given nanomaterial (e.g., determine which materials and/or process operation pose greater risk, where these risks occur in the lifecycle, and the impact of these risks on society), using state-of-the-art safety assessment approaches/tools (ECETOC TRA, Stoffenmanager Nano and ISO/TS 12901-2:2014).
The developed nanosafety strategy takes into account cross-sectoral industrial needs and includes:
This article and the rest of the issue can be found at ScienceDirect site
Also included in this issue of JCHAS are:
Don’t ever tell me…
Harry J. Elston
Photocatalytic degradation of phenol solution using Zinc Oxide/UV
Original research article
H. Dewidar, S.A. Nosier, A.H. El-Shazly
A methodology on how to create a real-life relevant risk profile for a given nanomaterial
Open access – Original research article
Christa Schimpel, Susanne Resch, Guillaume Flament, David Carlander, and Izaskun Bustero
A case history of legacy chemical cleanup in the lab
Original research article
L.C. Cadwallader, R.J. Pawelko
Development of custom calibration factors for respirable silica using standard methods compared to photometric monitoring data
Pages 27-35
Leon F. Pahler, Danielle D. McKenzie-Smith, Rodney G. Handy, Darrah K. Sleeth
Engineering intervention to reduce API dust exposure during milling operation
Original research article
Vivek Kanjiyangat, Manikandan Hareendran
UPCOMING EVENTS
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.
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
