Working in a lab is safe most of the time, “except when it isn’t, and that’s when being alone compounds the danger,” says a new lab safety video about working alone. You can watch it on YouTube or download it for offline viewing from the American Chemical Society’s Division of Chemical Health and Safety website. The video is the second produced by the division in collaboration with the ACS Committee on Chemical Health and Safety and the University of Bristol. The first video focused on risk assessment and why you should do it before every experiment–just as you always look both ways before stepping into a road you’ve crossed many times before. It’s also available on YouTube and can be...
Here’s what’s planned for chemical and laboratory safety at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego, which starts on Sunday. You can also take advantage of the Division of Chemical Health & Safety’s printer-friendly CHAS-At-A-Glance. Sunday, Aug. 25 Committee on Chemical Safety Open and Executive Subcommittee Meeting, 7:00–10:00 am, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Marina Ballroom Salon GDivision of Chemical Health and Safety Executive Committee Meeting (agenda book here), 10:30 a.m.–1:30 pm, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Marina Ballroom Salon G Division of Chemical Health and Safety Awards, 1:30 p.m.–4:45 p.m., Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Rancho Santa Fe 3 (CHAS, PROF)Workshop: Developing Graduate Student Leadership Skills in Laboratory Safety, 3:00-6:00 p.m., Hilton San Diego Bayfront, Aqua 313Division of Chemical Education Safety Committee Meeting, 5:15-6:45 p.m., Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Del Mar Monday, Aug. 26 Connecting Professionalism, Safety and Ethics: Opportunities and Challenges, 8:30-11:30 a.m., Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Rancho Santa Fe 3 (CHAS, CINF)Academic Lab Safety, 8:30 a.m.-12:10 p.m., Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Carlsbad (CHED, CCS, CHAS)Connecting Professionalism, Safety and Ethics: Opportunities and Challenges, 1:30-3:15 p.m., Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Rancho Santa Fe 3 (CHAS, CINF)Academic Lab Safety, 1:30-4:40 p.m., Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Carlsbad (CHED, CCS, CHAS)Division of Chemical Health and Safety 40th Anniversary Symposium, 3:30-5:15 p.m., Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Rancho Santa Fe 3 (CHAS)Social hour networking reception, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Hilton San Diego Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom AE (cosponsored by Industry Member Programs, the Division of Chemical Health and Safety, Corporation...
Combining sodium hydride with some solvents can be a bad idea, as a group of researchers from Corteva Agriscience and Dow Chemical remind the chemistry community in Organic Process Research & Development ,(2025, DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.9b00276). An intact calorimetry cell (left) and a ruptured cell the authors used to study the explosive risk of NaH in DMSO. These cells typically rupture at pressures in excess of 1,000 bar. Credit: Org. Process Res. Dev. Reports of...
Credit: Shutterstock Via @sarahdcady on Twitter, some liquid nitrogen stories from 2006. One wasn’t quite a calamity–but it easily could have been. Down the stairs at the University of California, Berkeley: Yesterday the LeConte elevator was out of order, which for most of us would have meant taking the long way around. However, one undergrad, tasked with transporting a full 230 L dewar, simply decided to take the stairs.At about 80% the density of...
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