From: Ralph Stuart <Ralph.Stuart**At_Symbol_Here**keene.edu>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Chemical safety communication challenges
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:12:00 +0000
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
Message-ID: B6FBEC82-4CF3-49A8-A28F-E773565C0ED0**At_Symbol_Here**keene.edu
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> I‰??ve been saying since about 1995 we need a set of interdisciplinary dictionaries that will allow folks in one discipline to understand terms within their frameworks. Perhaps something as simple as browser plugin that lets you control-click a word for info in the context you‰??ve selected.
>
Or perhaps a SDS Demystifier such as
http://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/demystify.html

> >And even within a discipline, I have also been wondering equally as long why nobody has ever come up with a search engine that lets you search in the context of your experience level.

There is a version of this feature on the American Association of Chemistry Teachers web site at
https://teachchemistry.org
where you get to identify the kinds of materials for which audience you can search for.

We have a team of CHAS members who are beginning to look at implementing something similar for the CHAS web site and it‰??s 300+ items in the web sites archives. The project is an interesting mix of chemical safety expertise and information science...

- Ralph

Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO
Environmental Safety Manager
Keene State College
603 358-2859

ralph.stuart**At_Symbol_Here**keene.edu

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