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Subject: [DCHAS-L] National Risk Index
Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 1:16:37 PM
Author: Craig Merlic <merlic**At_Symbol_Here**CHEM.UCLA.EDU> 		Next by Date:
Subject: [DCHAS-L] ADV - Lab Safety Courses and Webinars
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 16:35:35 -0500
Author: James Kaufman

From: Janet Baum <baum.janet**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] National Risk Index
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 15:20:37 -0500
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
Message-ID: CAAgNRJi5W4jtctkHFK8UxTgAxea8js+u0XuLikHi6FgnRZ+k6w**At_Symbol_Here**mail.gmail.com
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Dear Craig, This is an impressive risk assessment tool. It is formulated on an enormous database from multiple agency sources and assembled by FEMA on a national geolocation format. It is an interesting prototype to consider to address chemical health and safety in laboratories. The issue is resources to develop an effective tool to identify hazards and evaluate risk.

ACS, specifically DCHAS, doesn't have such a comprehensive database from which to formulate an appropriate and parallel risk assessment based on geolocation parameters for chemical health and safety. Much of the data I have seen on chemical health safety is generated by functional entities, specifically industrial and academic organizations. Some databases have been generated by these sources with regard to chemical hazard incidents and consequences to identify hazards, but not as risk assessments. This would be a significant effort on the part of ACS, even if ACS would even be interested in it. Thank you for introducing DCHAS members with this information.
Best regards, Janet Baum, Program Co-Director, Instructor, Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:27 PM Craig Merlic <merlic**At_Symbol_Here**chem.ucla.edu> wrote:

Colleagues,

We all agree that teaching about hazard identification and risk assessment is critical, but it can also be challenging to teach. The excellent website below is not about laboratory hazards and risks, but could be useful in a more general sense to discuss concepts using natural hazards and risks across the US. A connection to laboratories and production plants risks could then be made by mapping locations of those to the natural hazards and risks.

https://hazards.geoplatform.gov/portal/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=ddf915a24fb24dc8863eed96bc3345f8&fbclid=IwAR296qPjcSPdfEdDf-yMhhVGnQ3u82Lahfa_YSHY-BB5jmGD1f6pzsoeuDg

Best,

Craig Merlic

Professor of Chemistry, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Executive Director, UC Center for Laboratory Safety

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569

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