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Creating Safety Cultures In Academic Institutions
Teaching laboratory and chemical safety: All chemists need an in-depth knowledge of laboratory and chemical safety. They should acquire this safety knowledge and training continually throughout their years of education. The report suggests some 80 safety topics that should be taught, and it emphasizes teaching critical thinking skills in laboratory and chemical safety. Strong safety attitudes, awareness, and ethics: Strong, positive attitudes about safety require long-term efforts through continuous emphasis on safety. Teaching safety is an ethical responsibility. The concept of a “safety ethic” reflects the proper attitude of valuing safety. Learning from laboratory incidents: Studies of incidents capture interest and teach lessons about safety.
by Robert H. Hill Jr. | June 11, 2012
RAMPing up safety education: The time is now
Although these are important components of chemical safety, they promote a culture of compliance rather than one of safety. Effective safety education must become an integral part of chemistry curricula at all levels. The Committee on Chemical Safety (CCS) has been leading an effort to strengthen the culture of safety in educational institutions.
by Bettyann Howson, Chair, ACS Committee on Chemical Safety | May 02, 2016
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Lessons from the safety summits
For this reason, then-ACS President Peter Dorhout asked the Committee on Chemical Safety to partner with the Division of Chemical Health and Safety and the newly created ACS safety program to organize an ACS Safety Summit in 2018. The goal of this summit was to help the society connect its safety stakeholders and translate the core value of safety into an action plan that helps the society and its members bring this value to life. Since then, annual safety summits have become an integral part of implementing the society’s core value of “professionalism, safety, and ethics.” The follow-up summits addressed chemical safety education and chemical safety communication, which had been identified as ACS strategic directions for safety programs at the first summit.
by Ralph Stuart, Chair, Committee on Chemical Safety | July 06, 2020
Supporting collaborations for chemical safety
—Supporting collaborations for chemical safety “” The core values of the American Chemical Society include “professionalism, safety, and ethics.” Energy and attention directed to safety have been growing in support of this core value. In 2019, I am happy to support several efforts related to safety, including the second ACS Safety Summit and programming at national meetings.
by Bonnie A. Charpentier, ACS President | April 12, 2019
The ACS’s Role in Safety
In 2012, the Safety Culture Task Force of the ACS Committee on Chemical Safety issued the report “Creating Safety Cultures in Academic Institutions,” which provides guidance, suggestions, examples, and recommendations to help strengthen the safety culture in two- and four-year undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral programs.
by Thomas Connelly, ACS Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer | June 27, 2016
Corporation Associates: Industrial safety and the society
The following are recent activities of the committee. ▸ Organizing the 2018 Safety Summit. Safety has been an important theme of recent ACS presidential initiatives. ACS President Peter Dorhout started his presidential year with a 2018 ACS Safety Summit. Leaders from Corporation Associates, the Division of Chemical Health & Safety (CHAS), and the Committee on Chemical Safety(CCS) helped organize the event.
by Diane Grob Schmidt, Chair, Committee on Corporation Associates | April 09, 2018
Building laboratory safety skills critical to undergraduate education
Building a safety-conscious culture requires constant reinforcement of safety in all laboratory processes. If academic institutions would incorporate safety throughout the entire undergraduate curriculum, bringing up safety at each and every laboratory session over the four years of study, then they would begin to build stronger safety cultures. This in turn requires that faculty and staff become strong leaders and proponents of safety, not just in words but by their actions, demonstrating that safety is a critical and important component of all chemistry. Realizing that many would not know what an undergraduate student should learn about safety, Dave Finster and I wrote an undergraduate textbook, “Laboratory Safety for Chemistry Students.”
by Jyllian Kemsley | June 13, 2011
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Leading the chemical safety landscape
—Leading the chemical safety landscape “” The American Chemical Society has long advocated for best practices for laboratory chemical safety in academic institutions. Since its creation in 1963, the ACS Committee on Chemical Safety (CCS) has served as a resource to other ACS units on matters related to chemical safety and health.
by Ralph Stuart, Chair, ACS Committee on Chemical Safety | July 08, 2018
Collaborations advance ACS chemical safety programs
—Collaborations advance ACS chemical safety programs “” Many of us in the safety community say, “Safety is no accident,” and, “Safety is an active verb.” The members of the American Chemical Society Committee on Chemical Safety (CCS) and the Division of Chemical Health and Safety (CHAS) are exemplars of the commitment to the core ACS value of safety. We are passionate about safety. We care and want everyone to care about safety as much as we do. This cadre of dedicated safety professionals, chemistry educators, researchers, and ACS staff has been actively collaborating, developing, and producing authoritative safety resources for the community.
by Kirk P. Hunter, chair, ACS Committee on Chemical Safety | October 30, 2021
Comment: ACS chemical safety—Many faces, one voice
Attending an in-person short course called Laboratory Safety and Health was my first experience with safety in ACS. That course led me to realize that memorizing a list of rules was not chemical safety education, and I was inspired to advocate for teaching and assessing knowledge of chemical safety in my department.
by Samuella Sigmann, chair, ACS Committee on Chemical Safety | November 13, 2022