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From: Sheila M. Kennedy <smk**At_Symbol_Here**CHEM.UCSD.EDU>
Subject: Re: Safety course material
Date: Mar 16, 2004 20:32 UTC
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3 cheers for good sense! Keifer.Leonard**At_Symbol_Here**EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV wrote: > While I think it's wonderful that a course in chemical safety has been > prepared and will be offered on-line I question the prerequisite of > general and organic chemistry. It seems to me that the people taking > their first chemistry courses are the very ones who need the safety > training the most. > > How many of us could have avoided a dangerous or potentially dangerous > incident in those first two years of chemistry if we had had a basic > class in chemical safety? -- Sheila M. Kennedy, CHO Chemistry & Biochemistry Undergraduate Teaching Labs University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093-0303 (858) 534-0221