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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines (11 articles)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 08:15:32 -0400
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Monday, August 27, 2018 at 8:15:14 AM
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Table of Contents (11 articles)
POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS & A SAFER CLASSROOM
Tags: education, discovery, environmental
KEROSENE EXPLOSION KILLS SIBLINGS, INJURES TWO OTHERS
Tags: Nigeria, public, explosion, death, kerosene
FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO POSSIBLE HAZMAT SITUATION IN TOWN OF TONAWANDA
Tags: us_NY, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
LATE NIGHT CHEMICAL SPILL POSES MINOR HAZARD
Tags: us_AZ, industrial, release, response, ag_chems, nitric_acid
ETHICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT USING RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY WERE UNAVOIDABLE AT ASILOMAR•ÈÀ•ÈÀ
Tags: public, discovery, environmental
CHEMICAL SAFETY TRAINING FOR SCIENCE TEACHERS
Tags: laboratory, discovery, environmental
PROTOCOL EASES SEARCH FOR MIXTURE TOXICITY DATA
Tags: Europe, public, discovery, environmental, toxics
CREWS FIGHT LARGE CHEMICAL FIRE AT ADVANCED PLATING IN NASHVILLE
Tags: us_tn, industrial, fire, response, metals
HAZMAT TEAM CALLED FOR 'MINOR' CHEMICAL SPILL IN MONUMENT HIGH SCIENCE LAB
Tags: us_MA, laboratory, release, response, ammonium_hydroxide, corrosives
FIRE BREAKS OUT AFTER CONSTRUCTION CREW HITS GAS LINE IN LOGAN SQUARE
Tags: us_IL, public, fire, injury, other_chemical
HAZMAT SPILL SHUTS DOWN CALIFORNIA FREEWAY
Tags: us_CA, transportation, release, response, nitric_acid, sulfuric_acid
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POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS & A SAFER CLASSROOM
https://www.chemedx.org/blog/positive-relationships-safer-classroom
Tags: education, discovery, environmental
A blog posting on developing a educational atmosphere in a high school chemistry class includes safety instruction.
I would like to share my thoughts about positive relationships as well as some of the activities that I do on the first day of school to make connections with my students. If your school year has already begun, remember that it‰??s never too late to reflect on ways to improve classroom climate. A teacher can hold a class meeting at any point during the year to talk with students about what‰??s working and what isn‰??t.
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KEROSENE EXPLOSION KILLS SIBLINGS, INJURES TWO OTHERS
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/281347-kerosene-explosion-kills-siblings-injures-two-others.html
Tags: Nigeria, public, explosion, death, kerosene
Two siblings have died while two others sustained severe burns as a result of two kerosene explosions in Umuebe village, Ezzamgbo community in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
The incident occurred on Monday, but police have just confirmed it.
PREMIUM TIMES reliably gathered that the victims purchased the adulterated fuel from the same filling station at Ezzamgbo junction.
The explosions happened at two different locations in the area, it was learnt.
The names of the deceased children are Joy Ituma, six, and her four-year old brother, Joshua Ituma.
The two children and their uncle were rushed to the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (FETHA) were they died.
Thirty four-year old Christiana Idenyi and 17-year old Uchenna Idoko, an uncle of the kids are the other two victims.
Mrs Idenyi, who said incident happened last Monday evening, lamented that the explosion occurred immediately she struck the matches to light her lantern. She said it gave her serious burns which affected her two legs.
‰??I went to the filling station and bought the kerosene. I poured it into the lamp immediately I returned. So, immediately I struck the matches, it exploded. As you can see, my legs, hands, and other parts of my body were burnt,‰?? Mrs Idenyi narrated.
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FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO POSSIBLE HAZMAT SITUATION IN TOWN OF TONAWANDA
https://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/firefighters-respond-to-possible-hazmat-situation-in-town-of-tonawanda/1396898077
Tags: us_NY, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) - Firefighters in the town of Tonawanda responded early Sunday morning to a possible hazmat situation at a chemical plant on Sawyer Road.
We're told there was a fire on the fourth floor of the Peroxy-Chem plant, which produces different types of acid.
Workers were able to put that fire out.
At this point, there is no word about what caused the fire at the plant.
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LATE NIGHT CHEMICAL SPILL POSES MINOR HAZARD
https://www.willcoxrangenews.com/news/article_af732efc-a9c3-11e8-b507-8790025d1b5e.html
Tags: us_AZ, industrial, release, response, ag_chems, nitric_acid
Hazmat crews were called out late Sunday night to clean up a nitric acid chemical spill that leaked 28,000 gallons from the Fertizona fertilizer plant on East Maley Street in Willcox.
City manager Caleb Blaschke issued the following press release:
"At 8:19 p.m., City dispatch received notice of a chemical spill on Rex Allen Jr. Drive. City of Willcox Police and Fire were dispatched accordingly with Arizona Department of Public Safety HAZMAT Unit. The chemical identified was Nitric Acid and spilled from a Fertizona holding tank.
Hazmat officials have notified the City that there is not a threat to public safety and health. The spill has been contained to the west side of Rex Allen Jr. Drive and Grants Street and is being mitigated.
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ETHICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT USING RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY WERE UNAVOIDABLE AT ASILOMAR•ÈÀ•ÈÀ
https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/biotechnology/Ethical-questions-using-recombinant-DNA/96/i34
Tags: public, discovery, environmental
The 1975 International Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules held at the Asilomar Conference Center in California has cast a long shadow. Groundbreaking at the time, the meeting of scientists to develop guidelines on DNA research remains the template for forums on the safe and ethical use of biotechnology.
‰??We wanted at Asilomar to bring together largely the science community because we were not planning to deal with some of the bigger issues that come up around genetic modification,‰?? such as defense security and social justice, says biologist David Baltimore, former president of California Institute of Technology and one of the meeting organizers.
‰??We really were looking at safety issues, and we felt the community with the expertise to do that was the scientific community,‰?? Baltimore says. His partner in organizing the meeting was Paul Berg, professor emeritus of biochemistry at Stanford University. The meeting was sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine.
Baltimore and Berg continue to be involved in similar conferences, notably the National Academies‰?? 2015 summit on genome-engineering ethics, a gathering where the focus was on ethical deployment of the technology and where social scientists, ethicists, and others were represented as well as genomics researchers. The spirit of that summit and other recent meetings, Baltimore and Berg say, has been the spirit of 1975.
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CHEMICAL SAFETY TRAINING FOR SCIENCE TEACHERS
http://nstacommunities.org/blog/2018/08/23/chemical-safety-training-for-science-teachers/
Tags: laboratory, discovery, environmental
Academic science laboratories can be unsafe places for teaching and learning due to risks associated with biological, chemical, and physical hazards The OSHA laboratory standard (29 CFR 1910.1450) requires all employees working in laboratory settings (including special education teachers and paraprofessionals) to undergo safety training before they enter the lab. This is to ensure employees are cognizant of and know how to work with chemical hazards in the work area.
According to the standard, safety training must take place at the time of the initial work assignment and prior to assignments involving new chemical exposure situations. Laboratory workers must be provided with information and training relevant to the physical, biological, and chemical hazards present in their laboratory.
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PROTOCOL EASES SEARCH FOR MIXTURE TOXICITY DATA
https://cen.acs.org/environment/pollution/Protocol-eases-search-mixture-toxicity/96/i34
Tags: Europe, public, discovery, environmental, toxics
protocol to address the thorny problem of predicting how different chemicals and environmental pollutants combine to increase or decrease toxicity has been published by a team of researchers from the U.K. and the European Commission (EC). Chemicals‰?? toxicity is often simply added to predict the overall toxicity of a mixture. But to better support regulatory efforts, EC‰??s Joint Research Centre (JRC) wanted to know how often this additive method is correct and how often overall toxicology deviated from the assumption. Olwenn Viviane Martin at Brunel University London and her colleagues, along with JRC experts, developed their protocol to review 10 years of research on how different toxic chemicals might interact and alter toxicity when present in the same environment (Zenodo 2018, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1319759). The search strategy they developed has 65 search terms. ‰??Vocabulary around mixture toxicology is fiendishly unspecific,‰?? Martin says. The protocol has revealed m!
ore papers reporting toxicity studies of mixtures than Martin and her colleagues expected, she says.
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CREWS FIGHT LARGE CHEMICAL FIRE AT ADVANCED PLATING IN NASHVILLE
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/08/25/nashville-fire-chemical-advanced-plating/1099452002/
Tags: us_tn, industrial, fire, response, metals
Crews responded to a chemical fire at an auto-chrome plating shop in East Nashville on Saturday afternoon.
Firefighters were called to the 2-alarm fire at Advanced Plating in the 1400 block of Cowan Court, shortly before 1:30 p.m., according to the Nashville Fire Department.
No injuries were reported.
Five nearby buildings were evacuated as crews worked to get the fire under control by 3 p.m.
Nashville Fire said crews were working to check that none of the hazardous chemicals entered the nearby Cumberland River.
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HAZMAT TEAM CALLED FOR 'MINOR' CHEMICAL SPILL IN MONUMENT HIGH SCIENCE LAB
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/hazmat-team-called-for-minor-chemical-spill-in-monument-high-science-lab,548538
Tags: us_MA, laboratory, release, response, ammonium_hydroxide, corrosives
GREAT BARRINGTON ‰?? A minor chemical spill in a science lab at Monument Mountain Regional High School on Thursday prompted a response by firefighters a hazardous materials team and an evacuation of the building.
A science teacher who was preparing her lab for the new school year at around 7 p.m. accidentally knocked over a 2-liter bottle of ammonium hydroxide, which spilled onto the floor, the town's spokesman said in a statement.
The teacher, who was exposed to the solution, was evaluated and declined further treatment, the spokesman said. Several people in the building were evacuated.
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FIRE BREAKS OUT AFTER CONSTRUCTION CREW HITS GAS LINE IN LOGAN SQUARE
https://wgntv.com/2018/08/24/fire-breaks-out-after-construction-crew-hits-gas-line-in-logan-square/
Tags: us_IL, public, fire, injury, other_chemical
CHICAGO ‰?? Emergency crews responded to a fire in Logan Square on Friday afternoon.
Construction workers hit a gas line while working in the 2000 block of North Milwaukee Avenue. Two workers were hurt, but their injuries were not severe.
Fire officials designated the scene Level 1 Hazmat.
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HAZMAT SPILL SHUTS DOWN CALIFORNIA FREEWAY
https://kobi5.com/news/hazmat-spill-shuts-down-california-freeway-84498/
Tags: us_CA, transportation, release, response, nitric_acid, sulfuric_acid
HAYWARD, Calif. (KNTV/NBC) ‰?? A northern California freeway was partly shut down Friday afternoon when a truck began leaking acid.
The California Highway Patrol said the truck was leaking 300 gallons of a blend of sulfuric acid and nitric acid.
As a result, authorities closed the southbound lanes of Interstate 880.
The Southland Mall nearby was also evacuated as a precaution.
Smoke was pouring from the truck and the leak was investigated as a possible hazardous material incident.
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