From: Zabel Panosyan <panosyan**At_Symbol_Here**IIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Distance Undergraduate Lab Classes
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 13:16:13 -0500
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
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Hello,
Is it possible to have some guidelines from ACS and also James Kaufman's insight on the topic of sending chemistry kits to freshmen college students taking a general chemistry course?It looks like we need some regulations...
Thank you.
Zabel.

Zabel Panosyan
Lecturer, Chemistry
Laboratory and Course Coordinator
Departmental Safety Officer
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chemistry Department
3101 South Dearborn Street
Room 160 PS
Chicago, Il 60616
Phone: 312-567-3442



On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:01 PM mwilhelm <mwilhelm**At_Symbol_Here**umich.edu> wrote:
The NAOSMM group has been discussing this issue. James Kaufman of LSI had some insight. You may want to reach out to him.



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From: Jennifer Mattler <jmattler**At_Symbol_Here**STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 4/9/20 12:52 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Distance Undergraduate Lab Classes

Hi all,

Many institutions, including Stanford University, are conducting all classes online for the foreseeable future. We're quickly seeing a spike in questions around sending chemicals, adhesives, etc.. to students' homes to facilitate distance teaching lab classes. This presents a lot of thorny issues around safety, hazardous materials shipping, hazardous waste, safety culture, and equitable learning (i.e., some materials may only be available or able to be shipped domestically, leaving international students out).

How have other institutions tackled this? Are you completely banning it, providing a list of acceptable chemicals/work practices, reviewing each experiment, or totally out of the conversation?

Thank you all!

Jennifer

Jennifer Mattler, CIH, M.S., M.S.
Industrial Hygienist/Chemical Hygiene Officer
Environmental Health and Safety
Stanford University
650.723.0183

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