Chemical safety is chemical safety. There’s no room for cultural differences. A few years back I had a Safety Committee in China under my responsibilities … I had to insist that the committee recognized that this wasn’t an opportunity to experiment with democracy 😱😱😱. India knows the importance of chemical safety after the Bhopal methyl isocyanate disaster … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster considered to be the world’s worst. 

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On Aug 30, 2022, at 5:51 AM, Schroeder, Imke <ischroeder**At_Symbol_Here**ehs.ucla.edu> wrote:



Dear all,

while I agree with you, please be mindful of cultural differences.  The author is from India and clearly well-meaning. The issue, in this case, is with the review process of the paper that should have guided the author in the right direction.

My best,

Imke

 

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Jack

A thorough rebuttal to this is warranted. The authors sound more medically oriented than chemically. The N90 is really troublesome as is the implied expectation that an SDS will address their specific use.

 

I look forward to your rebuttal and would be happy to review it before (or after) you submit it.

 

Neal

 

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 2:49 PM Jack Reidy <jreidy2**At_Symbol_Here**stanford.edu> wrote:

Chris,

 

My colleagues and I have been discussing the same thing. We plan to write a thorough analysis. Suffice to say that we do not agree with some of the methods and recommendations contained within the paper.

 

Sincerely,

 

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That acryloyl chloride paper is the first one I’ve seen for the upcoming special issue on sharing incidents. I hope it’s intended to showcase the very beginning of the journey from ”blame to gain” because, after bemoaning the propensity for investigations to blame the victim and fail to identify underlying causes it seems to conclude that the incident occurred because the victim failed to wear their PPE (when none of the indicated PPE seems appropriate for protecting against inhalation of acryloyl chloride, assuming there was even any acryloyl chloride remaining in the reaction mixture when the exposure occurred)…

 

Chris

 

 

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