The 249th ACS National Meeting starts on Sunday in Denver. Here's what's planned for chemical and laboratory safety; the Division of Chemical Health & Safety has its usual CHAS-At-A-Glance ready for printing. You can also find CHAS and the Committee on Chemical Safety in the Expo at booth 425.
SUNDAY
- Division of Chemical Health & Safety Executive Committee breakfast meeting, agenda book here; 8:30-11:30 AM,Embassy Suites Denver, Silverton Ballroom 3
- Nanotechnology: Delivering on the Promise: Research & Development, 1:30-5:15 PM, Colorado Convention Center, Mile High Ballroom 3A
- Nanotechnology: Delivering the promise - R&D
- NSF: Building foundational knowledge and infrastructure for nanotechnology
- NIH: The impact of nanotechnology in biology and medicine
- Nanoscience and technology for energy
- Nanomaterials and nanomanufacturing with an emphasis on national security
MONDAY
- Nanotechnology: Delivering on the Promise: Opportunities and Challenges for Health, Safety, and the Environment; 8:30-11:35 AM, Colorado Convention Center, Mile High Ballroom 3A
- Innovation trends, policies, and practices
- The regulatory void
- Adaptive governance
- Sustainability and life cycle issues
- What is responsible development of nanotechnology?
- Legalized Marijuana & Health & Safety; 1:30-5:30 PM, Embassy Suites Denver, Silverton Ballroom 1
- Taking care of Mary Jane's workers
- Safety considerations in the development of sensible workplace drug testing policies for legalized marijuana
- Marijuana health and safety for licensed and regulated businesses
- State mandated testing of retail marijuana in Colorado
- Safety and health standard of cannabis extractions with an emphasis on C02
- Recent improvements in chromatography: Advancing chromatographic data quality to make a safer Cannabis product
- GC methods for Cannabis safety and potency testing
- Social Hour hosted by CHAS and the Division of Chemistry & the Law, open to all ACS members; 5:00-8:00 PM, Grand Hyatt Denver, Capital Peak
- Sci-Mix; 8:00-10:00 PM, Colorado Convention Center, Hall C
- Lessons learned from a hood fire and deflagration event
- Increasing sample throughput of Cannabis analyses on any LC system
- Potency and contaminant testing of retail marijuana in Colorado
TUESDAY
- Ask Dr. Safety: EH&S Support of Nanotechnology R&D; 9:00-11:00 AM, Embassy Suites Denver, Silverton Ballroom 1
- How hazardous can nanostructured titanium dioxide be to humans in a water purification application?
- Ask Dr. Safety
- Safety in Undergraduate Teaching; 1:30-5:20 PM, Embassy Suites Denver, Silverton Ballroom 1
- Moving from a danger culture to a safety culture
- Teaching basic technique: A view into preparing for a safer educational and work environment
- Using traditional safety rules to teach more advanced concepts in chemical hygiene
- Talk dirty to me: Teaching undergraduate students the importance of good hygiene in the teaching laboratory
- Risk hazard assessment in the general chemistry laboratory
- Developing a safety synergy in the chemistry department at Stanford University
- Safety Friday: Do in-class safety presentations impact student behavior and perceptions of laboratory safety?
- Student view of safety in the undergraduate laboratory
- Case study: Impact of chemical safety training in undergraduate teaching
- Nitric acid acts upon trousers: Learning about hazardous chemicals
