From: "Brown, Kimberly Jean" <kimibush**At_Symbol_Here**EHRS.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Safety Consultant Needed - Pacific Northwest
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:05:32 +0000
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
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Natalie:

Your colleague at Edmonds may well find an expert to evaluate their program.. The more sustainable and effective solution; however, will be for the instructor to educate themself on the principles of risk assessment and control and then develop or adopt a framework for how all experiments will be reviewed, and how all hazards will be managed in the course. 

Incorporating risk assessment into the curriculum itself is another way of improving safe practices now and in the students' futures. 

ACS offers many free resources for students and educators: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education.html

As an aside, I wish I would have had the opportunity to take a "Chemistry and Art" class!

I hope that the course can continue and that their only accidents will be artistic "happy accidents"!


Kimi Brown, ARM, NRCC-CHO, CSP

(she, her, hers)

Sr. Lab Safety Specialist/Chemical Hygiene Officer

215-746-6549 (Office)

215-651-0557 (Mobile/text)


What I'm reading/listening to right now (brain ingredients): Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Adam Grant, Wharton School)


EHRS is continuing to provide essential services with limited on-campus staff.  Those of us who are not on campus are working remotely to continue much of our normal operations.

From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU> on behalf of Natalie Merrill <namerrill**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2021 3:18 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Safety Consultant Needed - Pacific Northwest
 
Hello DCHAS Friends and Colleagues,
I received the following message from a chemistry instructor at Edmonds Community College:

At Edmonds, they are giving us some difficulty with our "Chemistry and Art" class. Apparently, they think there are some safety concerns. This is a long story and is I think driven by a small accident we had last year. Anyway, one idea we had is to ask for an outside expert to evaluate the course for its safety hazards. Do you think there is someone with the ACS we could hire to do that? I'm not sure they will even go for it, but I don't want to present the option unless there is actually somebody who could do this. 

I wondered if anyone here may have suggestions, or referrals to any option available that may be suitable to address the safety concerns and evaluation of the safety issues within the Chemistry and Art class.


Your replies and consideration are appreciated.


Natalie

Natalie Merrill, PSS-ACS Executive Committee Chair; Fifth Alternate Councilor; Safety & Sustainability Committee(s) Chair; Diversity Inclusion and Respect Committee Member, Mentoring Activity Co-Chair
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