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Previous by Date: Subject: [DCHAS-L] Operating Experience Level 3 2020-02: New Chemical Accident Reporting Requirements Date: Monday, May 11, 2020 at 9:10:33 AM Author: Ralph Stuart <ralph**At_Symbol_Here**rstuartcih.org> |
Next by Date: Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] A Safe Return (after Covid) Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 09:38:56 -0400 Author: David Roberts |
FYI, there's a good editorial, excerpted below, in the ACS journal Inorganic Chemistry at
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01253
about rethinking the way we approach lab safety as activity in academic organizations picks up again. In my opinion, it's worth sharing widely in the chemistry community.
- Ralph
A Safe Return
One of the difficult aspects of sheltered life during the coronavirus pandemic has been our inability to make plans. It is hard to plan when there is so much we just do not know, such as when we can next travel on a plane, when we can start seeing friends and extended family in person again, and if and when an event still on the calendar will occur. We also do not know yet when we can restart research in our laboratories.
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In developing these plans, we are thinking hard about the way the laboratories operate, how people work, how they navigate and travel to and from the buildings, etc., and we are being purposeful about designing plans that will enable research to be performed and, at the same time, ensure everyone‰??s health and well-being. As we do this, it struck me: This is the perfect time and opportunity for all PIs to take a careful look at how they operate their laboratory and to ask, is this the safest way? Might not this, the key moment when a careful process of laboratory reopening is being developed to deal with the pandemic, be the best opportunity to improve the broader culture of safety in our laboratories?
Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO
Chair
American Chemical Society Committee on Chemical Safety
ralph**At_Symbol_Here**rstuartcih.org
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