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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Meet the Pres candidates
Date: Friday, September 24, 2021 at 7:32:43 AM
Author: NEAL LANGERMAN <neal**At_Symbol_Here**CHEMICAL-SAFETY.COM> 		Next by Date:
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Oct 4 ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 09:54:20 -0600
Author: Joseph DiVerdi

From: Monona Rossol <0000030664c37427-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Question for teaching and research university labs
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:59:08 +0000
Reply-To: Monona Rossol <actsnyc**At_Symbol_Here**cs.com>
Message-ID: 2090534966.1422985.1632488348907**At_Symbol_Here**mail.yahoo.com
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Great warning. And there are so many similar stories from women on stage or in rehearsal getting fingernails and hair on fire from magic tricks or special effects.  Pyro even set  Michael Jackson's hair on fire.  Lesson:  if you paint or spray a flammable product on some part of you, you are a kindling waiting for a match.

Monona


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From: Meg Osterby <megosterby**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM>
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU
Sent: Fri, Sep 24, 2021 5:00 am
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Question for teaching and research university labs

I was a bride's maid at my sister's wedding in 1979 and she paid for a manicure for me with my own nails and salon polish.  I smoked at that time and at the reception, sitting and smoking a cigarette after the dinner with my date next to me, I stubbed out the cigarette on the provided ash tray on out table, and the nail polish on my right (dominant hand) thumb caught fire. My date grabbed my thumb and dunked it in his pop and quickly put it out.  But, the manicurist had allowed polish to sleep around the side of the nail and polish the bottom side of the nail tip as well as the top, so the fire had spread to both sides in the 1 or 2 seconds it burned for.  When I took my thumb out of the iced pop, I found that the skin adjacent to the underside of the nail tip had second degree burns across the whole fingertip under the nail.  It was nasty and painful, but when I went to the doctor the next day, he said I had prevented serious damage by dunking it to put it out and then staying in the ice cold pop for a while until the skin was no longer hot to the touch.

Meg Osterby
"It's better to be careful 100 times than to be dead once." Mark Twain.

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021, 2:33 PM Alex Hagen <fischera**At_Symbol_Here**uw.edu> wrote:
This article may also be of use in the discussion:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5241193/
 
Regards,
ALEX HAGEN
Lab Safety Inspections Program Manager, Research & Occupational Safety
Environmental Health and Safety Department
University of Washington
 
From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU> On Behalf Of Monona Rossol
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 12:18 PM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Question for teaching and research university labs
 
No rules but search google for a video of a lab student accidentally setting fire to one of her nails with a Bunsen burner and shaking the burning blobs of plastic all over the place.  I've seen it several times, but don't have a link.   Might help in your PR.
 
Monona

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From: Shannon Nephew <millersc**At_Symbol_Here**PLATTSBURGH.EDU>
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU
Sent: Thu, Sep 23, 2021 2:41 pm
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Question for teaching and research university labs
Good afternoon.  
I have had inquiries about this from several of our teaching faculty as of late and after proposing it to the chemical hygiene committee on campus today, it was suggested that we reach out to larger universities to see how they handle these concerns. 
We have noticed an increase in the number of students with very, very long (often acrylic) fingernails.  This is a concern for many reasons in a lab, but particularly in regard to gloves.
Does anyone have a procedure or lab safety rules addressing this?
 
Thank you,
 
Shannon
SHANNON C. NEPHEW, 
MS, CSM, CCHO
Chemical Hygiene Officer, Hudson Hall Science Complex Building Manager
Science Programs and Facilities Support Professional
Hudson Hall 317
101 Broad Street
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