| About This Archive | | DCHAS-L 2014 Index | | DCHAS-L Yearly Index | |
Check out Safety Emporium for your N95, N99, and face shield needs.
|
Previous by Date: Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Occupational handling of nickel nanoparticles: A case report Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 9:02:34 PM Author: Monona Rossol <actsnyc**At_Symbol_Here**cs.com> |
Next by Date: Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Occupational handling of nickel nanoparticles: A case report Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 15:20:39 +0000 Author: "Alnajjar, Mikhail S" |
Chemical Safety Headlines
A service of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
Connecting Chemistry and Safety at http://www.dchas.org
Tweets available on our ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety (DCHAS) Facebook Page
Tagged Article summaries are available at http://pinboard.in/u:dchas
Table of Contents (8 articles)
EXCLUSIVE: CDC SLAMS UH BIOLAB
Tags: us_HI, laboratory, follow-up, environmental
APARTMENT COMPLEX EXPLOSION LEADS CORTLAND POLICE TO METH LAB
Tags: us_NY, public, explosion, injury, meth_lab
DEP PLANS TO START CHEMICAL TANK REGISTRATION SOON
Tags: us_WV, industrial, follow-up, environmental, other_chemical
BUSINESS BRIEFS: CHEMICAL PLANT OVERSIGHT FAULTED
Tags: us_IA, industrial, follow-up, environmental, ag_chems, ammonium_nitrate
CHEMICAL SPILL LAST WEEK IN MORGANTON
Tags: us_NC, laboratory, release, injury, corrosives, nitric_acid
HAZMAT TEAM RESPONDS TO CHEMICAL EXPOSURE AT FLEET SERVICES
Tags: us_TX, transportation, release, response, pesticides
UPDATED: BOY, 11, BURNED AFTER CHEMICAL BOMB THROWN AT LOWELL SCHOOL
Tags: us_MA, education, release, injury, bomb
PROS AND CONS OF OPEN-PLAN SCIENCE
Tags: laboratory, discovery, response
---------------------------------------------
EXCLUSIVE: CDC SLAMS UH BIOLAB
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/25559714/exclusive-cdc-slams-uh-biolab
Tags: us_HI, laboratory, follow-up, environmental
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -
The Center for Disease Control is threatening to suspend the University of Hawaii medical school's ability to conduct research on highly contagious diseases.
A recent CDC inspection uncovered 30 safety infractions. The Atlanta-based center also found that infighting among staffers undermined the UH biosafety lab's readiness in case of a real bioterror attack.
"This is a lack of management and lack of leadership. It's got to be changed," said state Sen. Sam Slom, R-Hawaii Kai, who was part of the Senate Special Investigative Committee that looked into UH mismanagement.
"This is the same lab that's been shutdown before. It's had continuing problems."
That shutdown occurred in 2012 when the lab had to make improvements to retain its certification.
The CDC, which conducted a site visit in March and issued its findings last Monday, said the UH failed to implement a number of new safety regulations that the CDC began requiring a year ago.
"There are 30 specific demands that have to be met in a week but I don't know if the university is capable of doing that," said Slom.
UH officials say they are addressing the CDC's concerns and that they plan to formally respond by the May 26 deadline.
---------------------------------------------
APARTMENT COMPLEX EXPLOSION LEADS CORTLAND POLICE TO METH LAB
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/05/apartment_complex_explosion_leads_cortland_police_to_meth_lab.html
Tags: us_NY, public, explosion, injury, meth_lab
At around 2:05 p.m., the Cortland police and fire departments were called to an explosion at 132 Main St.
Several apartments were occupied and people were walking in the hallways when emergency crews arrived. The fire department evacuated the building and began an investigation.
They discovered that the explosion came from apartment No. 12, where they found minor damage to the bathroom and hallway ceilings. They also smelled a chemical odor.
Once they determined the apartment was safe enough, city police and a state police crew specializing in contaminated crime scenes secured the apartment.
At 8:15 p.m. investigators found multiple products and equipment used in the manufacturing of methamphetamine. They also found finished meth and confiscated it.
They determined that three people who were inside the complex during the explosion were exposed to the chemicals. These three people were treated and released from Cortland Regional Medical Center.
---------------------------------------------
DEP PLANS TO START CHEMICAL TANK REGISTRATION SOON
http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20140520/GZ01/140529927/1101
Tags: us_WV, industrial, follow-up, environmental, other_chemical
CHARLESTON, W.Va. ? West Virginia regulators are planning an early start to the process of registering above-ground chemical storage tanks under legislation passed in the wake of January?s chemical leak into the Elk River.
The state Department of Environmental Protection expects to begin accepting online tank registrations soon after June 6, the effective date of SB 373, the law that requires DEP to begin a new program aimed at avoiding a repeat of the Freedom Industries leak that contaminated the drinking water supply of 300,000 West Virginians.
Scott Mandirola, director of the DEP Division of Water and Waste Management, told lawmakers Tuesday that the registration data is important to help the agency as it crafts new rules aimed at implementing the rest of the above-ground storage tank law.
?That information gained from the registration is critical for us to understand how to proceed with the rules,? Mandirola told the Joint Legislative Oversight Commission on State Water Resources, which met during interim meetings in Charleston.
Mandirola said the DEP hasn?t come up with a proposed figure for the tank registration fee that lawmakers created to fund the new regulatory program.
---------------------------------------------
BUSINESS BRIEFS: CHEMICAL PLANT OVERSIGHT FAULTED
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2014/05/21/chemical-plant-oversight-faulted/2303252/
Tags: us_IA, industrial, follow-up, environmental, ag_chems, ammonium_nitrate
The government has no way of fully knowing which U.S. chemical facilities stock ammonium nitrate, the substance that exploded last year at a Texas fertilizer plant and killed 14 people, congressional investigators said.
Outdated federal policies, poor information sharing with states and a raft of industry exemptions point to scant federal oversight, said a report obtained by the Associated Press.
The report found regulatory gaps in environmental and worker protections and urged broad changes to U.S. safety rules. President Barack Obama pledged to stiffen enforcement following the explosion on April 17, 2013, in West, Texas.
Without improved monitoring, federal regulators ?will not know the extent to which dangerous conditions at some facilities may continue to exist,? concluded the report by the Government Accountability Office.
The GAO found that the Homeland Security Department?s database captured only a small fraction of the ammonium nitrate storage facilities in the U.S.
---------------------------------------------
CHEMICAL SPILL LAST WEEK IN MORGANTON
http://www.whky.com/archive/item/1864-chemical-spill-last-week-in-morganton#.U3s3ktJdWE0
Tags: us_NC, laboratory, release, injury, corrosives, nitric_acid
Shortly after 8:40 last Thursday (May 16) evening, the Morganton Department of Public Safety was called to Sypris Technologies at 105 Wamsutta Mill Road for a reported chemical spill. The first units arrived on the scene to find that one employee had already been taken to CMC Morganton for chemical burns.
First responders on the scene verified that the plant was evacuated and determined that the spill was contained to the plant?s lab area. The spill was reported to be an acid of some type, which was later identified by HazMat personnel as Nitric Acid. The spill started a reaction with materials it contacted, including a synthetic floor mat. Employees in the area immediately left the area to get away from the fumes and corrosive material.
---------------------------------------------
HAZMAT TEAM RESPONDS TO CHEMICAL EXPOSURE AT FLEET SERVICES
http://www.ktre.com/story/25554156/lubbock-fire-rescue-hazmat-team-responds-to-lubbock-fleet-services
Tags: us_TX, transportation, release, response, pesticides
LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) -
The Lubbock Fire Rescue team is on the scene at the City of Lubbock Fleet Services where a city sanitation operator has suffered chemical exposure.
Officials say the operator was exposed when he accessed the hopper area of a trash truck in attempt to correct a mechanical problem.
The Hazmat team discovered pesticides and herbicides in the hopper area of the sanitation truck. The material has been removed and the sanitation truck sent to the landfill to empty the hopper and further decontaminate the truck.
LFR representatives tell us the chemicals were disposed of illegally and there is an investigation in progress to determine who disposed of them and where the chemicals came from. They say there will be citations issued once the responsible parties are located.
---------------------------------------------
UPDATED: BOY, 11, BURNED AFTER CHEMICAL BOMB THROWN AT LOWELL SCHOOL
http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/ci_25793748/explosion-at-lowell-school-injures-child
Tags: us_MA, education, release, injury, bomb
LOWELL - An 11-year-old boy suffered minor burns and got chemicals in his eyes when another boy threw a chemical reaction bomb, also known as a "soda bomb" outside of the Cardinal O'Connell Alternative School in Lowell on Monday afternoon.
Police said the boy who allegedly threw the device will be charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, unlawful possession of an explosive device, and trespassing after notice. Police did not release that boy's age.
The injured boy, 11-year-old Nicholas Desanogueira, is a student at the Butler Middle School who walks past the O'Connell on his way home each afternoon, according to his sister, Simone Leite, a 16-year-old girl who spoke with her father's permission.
---------------------------------------------
PROS AND CONS OF OPEN-PLAN SCIENCE
http://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i20/Pros-Cons-Open-Plan-Science.html
Tags: laboratory, discovery, response
Collaboration-boosting open-plan labs and buildings are becoming the norm, but many chemists say they are both a hindrance and potential danger
There is plenty of evidence, however, that open-space research is much less of a cultural fit in chemistry than it is in information technology. A significant number of chemical and drug researchers, including C&EN readers responding to an online query, say they find working in open-plan labs and buildings to be a noisy and distracting experience. Some feel that sharing labs, equipment, and chemicals with researchers from other teams poses a significant safety risk. Many express a certain dread at the prospect of the open lab becoming the norm in corporate research workspaces.
Of a dozen or so C&EN readers who offered their opinions, most are critical of the open environment. Imke Schršder, research project manager at the University of California Center for Laboratory Safety and adjunct associate professor for microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics at UCLA, criticizes the trend for open-plan buildings in university campuses across the U.S. In association with colleagues, Schršder undertook a straw poll of views from among several faculty; students; research staff; and environment, health, and safety staff about their perspectives on open-plan buildings.
---------------------------------------------
Previous post | Top of Page | Next post