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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:40:57 -0400
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From: List Moderator <ecgrants**At_Symbol_Here**UVM.EDU>
Subject: Re: High School Lab Safety
On another e-mail list I follow someone asked the question:
What's the best source of information (links, texts, etc.) for high
school chemical safety?
And
Are there any prohibited chemicals? (recommended, regulatory, or
otherwise).
I thought that DCHAS-L might be interested in some of the answers...
- Ralph
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Subject: Re: High School Lab Safety
From: "Harry J. Elston"
There are a number of resources for secondary school chemical safety.
As with most things, some are better than others.
NIOSH "Safe Lab: School Chemistry Laboratory Safety Guide" (available
here: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2007-107/pdfs/2007-107.pdf) is not
bad but it does have some issues.
Linda Stoud's group, Science and Safety Consulting Group, has put
together a good work for the secondary schools. Information is
available here: http://www.sciencesafetyconsulting.com/products/index.html
. Products are not free.
The American Chemical Society's Committee on Chemical Safety has
written a series of safety guides for secondary schools, "Chemical
Safety for Teachers and Their Supervisors, Grades 7-12." That is a
publication by CCS. You can get a single free copy by asking,
multiple copies are $2.50 each. The publication is NOT available for
download. Information is available here: http://membership.acs.org/C/CCS/publications.htm
Additionally, the CCS has issued a number of small documents regarding
specific issues for secondary school chemical safety. These are PDF
files, free, and are available here: http://membership.acs.org/C/CCS/default.htm
The Journal of Chemical Education often has safety information in it,
especially in the form of "CLIPs" "Chemical Laborartory Information
Profiles" - These are similar to the Laboratory Chemical Safety
Summary (LCSS) found in Prudent Practices in that they are one-two
page summaries, but, in my opinion, are more concisely written from a
risk management perspective. They are very readable and
understandable to anyone that has had general/organic chemistry. Some
of these are also available on the CCS front page (above).
Regarding "banned chemicals." There are no "banned" chemicals in
secondary school laboratories. However there are a number of
chemicals that pose significant risk to students and faculty who are
not well versed in handling hazardous materials. The CCS has issued a
guidance document regarding these chemicals, "Reducing Risks to
Students and Educators from Hazardous Chemicals in a Secondary School
Chemical Inventory" which is one of the guidance documents that is
located on the CCS front page. This document was prepared from the
risk managment perspective with the knowledge that many secondary
school educators are not well versed in handling hazardous chemicals.
Additionally, the NIOSH document that was mentioned above also
contains a listing of chemicals that have limited use in the secondary
school, pages 33 and following.
Harry
Harry J. Elston, Ph.D., CIH
Editor, Journal of Chemical Safety
Chair, Safe Practices Subcommittee, CCS
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From: Terri Prichard
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:30:21 -0700
If you are in California, there is a document called The Science
Safety Handbook for California Public Schools (1999 Edition) available
at:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ca/sc/documents/scisafebk.pdf
It doesn't exactly ban chemicals, but it does list chemicals "not
recommended".
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Subject: Re: High School Lab Safety
From: Ron Yovich
Colorado has a pretty extensive list of prohibited and restricted
amount chemicals that the State has incorporated into the regulations
for schools. See the link below:
http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/regulations/consumer/101006schools.pdf
The State has conducted inspections and cleanouts at most of the
secondary schools in the larger metropolitan areas over the past few
years. Most of the prohibited materials have been removed and
disposed of through the proper channels.
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