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From: Samuella Sigmann <sigmannsb**At_Symbol_Here**appstate.edu>
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Thank You for an Amazing Year!
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:22:49 -0500
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
Message-ID: b6d0183a-e141-213b-da60-32a7d6f94fb9**At_Symbol_Here**appstate.edu
As 2019 winds down, I
just wanted to take a minute and send out a note to CHAS
members and express my gratitude to the community for their
support this year.
The year has passed unbelievably fast and as I start to organize
my thoughts for our annual report to the ACS, I am amazed at all
that has come to fruition this year. The items below highlight
just some of the member contributions and Division accomplishments
this year:
- Our
leadership successfully negotiated and transferred the Journal
of Chemical Health & Safety to ACS Publications. The
journal will now be published as ACS Chemical Health &
Safety with CHAS members Mary Beth Mulcahy as
Editor-in-Chief and Kali Miller as Development Editor.
A special thanks to Harry
Elston and the Editorial Board for the their hard work
growing the journal over the last 20 years.
- Joe
Pickel lead a successful update of our Division Bylaws
(last updated in 2006). The revised bylaws were voted on
by members and certified by Committee on Constitution and
Bylaws in August.
- Leadership
obtained $12,500 from the ACS to help support a Strategic Planning
Retreat in 2020 ($7,500 from our IPG Grant and
$5,000 from the Leadership Advisory Board for a facilitator).
- CHAS
celebrated our 40th Anniversary this year! To commemorate the
occasion, Robin Izzo, Mary Beth Koza, and I
designed candy bars. Robin took care of all the logistics and
made sure the bars arrived un-melted in SF!� 200 bars were
purchased using monies from MPPG for following the SF theme in
programing and were distributed (and very well received) in
San Francisco.
- In SF, Frankie
Wood-Black received the Helen M. Free Award for Public
Outreach at the ChemLuminary ceremony.� Additionally, were
recognized for outstanding divisional work with two
ChemLuminary Awards.
- Committee
on Divisional Activities, Most Unique Project as Funded by
a Division Innovative Project Grant, Ralph Stuart
- Committee
on International Activities, Global Engagement Award for
Technical Divisions, Brandon Chance
- Robin
Izzo conceived and produced the "Elements of Safety"
periodic table using her resources at Princeton. Hundreds of
posters celebrating the International Year of the Periodic
Table and promoting RAMP and chemical safety were printed (at
no cost to CHAS) and distributed at the National Meetings.�
- Continuing
work begun by Neal Langerman and Harry Elston
to get safety statements into ACS journals, Leah McEwen
and myself successfully petitioned the Editors of the 2020
Style Guide (now ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication) to
include a chapter on safety summaries for publications. The
chapter, authored by Leah and myself, will launch in January
2020 online.
- Our
Programing Chairs, Debbie Decker & Joe Pickel, put
together two amazing National Meeting programs. We had 50+
abstracts in CHAS and full programing in the CANN Subdivision
as well.� CHAS programing had co-sponsorships with CCS, CHED,
CINF, PROF, and HIS. We were able to expand impact by
working to include safety symposia in other divisional
programming (ANAL, CHED, and I&EC) and
Presidential symposia (PRES) with CHAS as a co-sponsor.
- Building
on our efforts to integrate safety in regional meetings (Mark
Lassiter, Regional Committee Chair) we had a presence at
several Regional meetings (*supported in part by CHAS). Please let me know
if I missed any Regional or Local Section activities so
that they get included in our annual report!
- Great
Lakes Regional Meeting (GLRM)�?? Symposium �??Laboratory Safety�??
(Ken Fivizzani, Presenting)
- *Midwest
Regional Meeting (MWRM) �?? Workshop �??Safety Education
Workshop�?? (Dave Finster) and Chemical Management
Workshop�?? (Susan McCoy)
- Central
Regional Meeting (CERM) �?? Symposium �??Safety in the
Undergraduate Curriculum�??. This is listed in C&EN, but
I am not sure if it was presented. If it did,
someone please let me know.
- *Southeastern
Regional Meeting (SERMACS) �?? Symposium �??Teaching, Creating
& Sustaining a Safety Culture�?? (Mary Beth Koza,
Organizing, Presiding, & Presenting)
- In 2018,
Doug Walters mentored Kimi Brown to take over as
the Awards Committee Chair. Kimi and the committee have done
an outstanding job this year organizing the application
process and updating the issuances for the Administrative
Manual. Additionally, an new award has been created,
"Laboratory Safety Institute Graduate Research Faculty Safety
Award" (sponsored by LSI, Jim Kaufman)
- Members
(numerous) worked on projects in collaboration with the CCS
and CHED (Video Evaluation Rubric and 2019 Chemical Safety
Exam).
- Dan
Kuespert, Kirk Hunter, and myself have worked in
collaboration with ACS Safety (Marta Gmurczyk) on the
ACS Online Learning Safety Course slated to be completed in
2020. Additionally, Marta as established another small group
to work on creating a set of short educational videos for
undergraduates.
My apologies for the
length of this communication, but I am very proud of our
accomplishments this year. I am sure more will come to mind
after I send this, but you get the idea!
I sincerely thank you for
entrusting the Division helm to me for 2019 and I leave you in
Robin's very capable hands!
Have a safe 2020.
Sammye
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We, the willing,
led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the
ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so
little, we are now qualified to do everything with
nothing. Teresa Arnold paraphrased from
Konstantin Josef Jire�?ek (1854 �?? 1918)
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Samuella B. Sigmann, MS, NRCC-CHO
Chair, ACS
Division of Chemical Health & Safety, 2019
Senior Lecturer/Safety Committee
Chair/Director of Stockroom
Chemistry
Appalachian State University
525 Rivers Street
Boone, NC 28608
Phone: 828 262 2755
Fax: 828 262 6558
Email: sigmannsb**At_Symbol_Here**appstate.edu
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