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Subject: [DCHAS-L] How It's Made
Date: Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 3:50:17 PM
Author: Heather Mann <heather.mann**At_Symbol_Here**STONYBROOK.EDU>
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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] How It's Made
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:57:52 +0000
Author: James Saccardo
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From: Denise Beautreau <deb313**At_Symbol_Here**LEHIGH.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] How It's Made
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:35:27 -0400
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
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Heather,
I think that is a great suggestion. It isn't silly at all. Often times I have students who are doing independent study projects or research with questions about conducting experiments and far too often they do not take into account the safety and quit frankly the chemistry
chemistryof their proposed experiments. I use that opportunity to instill further the idea of always doing thorough analysis of the project and include a safety risk assessment.
I would certainly sign the petition if it came to fruition.
Regards,
Denise
Hi.
A lot of my Gen Z students who are interested in industrial careers, or any kind of engineering, tell me they were inspired by the show How It's Made.
It's a good show, and what I'm about to describe occurs in just a handful of episodes, but I think it presents an opportunity to exert a degree of influence toward promoting the culture of safety.
There are a lot of details glossed over for proprietary reasons. Once in a while they talk about formulation development then yadayadayada over scale-up.
I was wondering if there would be interested among us to send a petition to the show encouraging them to add a comment to such segments addressing that scale-up itself is more involved than, say, multiply by 1000 and go.
What do we think? It might be silly, but I thought it was at least worth considering and discussing.
So...?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
-Heather
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