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Schroeder, Imke <ischroeder**At_Symbol_Here**EHS.UCLA.EDU>
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Re: [DCHAS-L] Respect in Safety
Date:
Dec 15, 2022 03:31 UTC
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I think respect also includes addressing issues without blame. We respect that we and others are human and can make mistakes. I think we are still struggling too much with biases letting our emotions about
what we experience or investigate override a rational response.
My best,
Imke
From:
ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU> on behalf of Daniel Kuespert <000015c5a28e7459-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 1:47 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Respect in Safety
I’m presiding over a panel on Respect in Safety at the Indianapolis Annual Meeting in spring.
I need a bit of help from the CHAS community—you don’t even need to attend! Read on…
Respect refers to one’s treatment of another as a person of equal status, deserving of consideration and politeness in discourse. This is particularly so when that
discourse involves disagreement—respectful people can ‘agree to disagree.’ Providing health & safety advice, especially when issues of enforcement are involved, can create situations prone to displays of disrespect. The panel members will discuss representative
lived experiences of this effect and will engage with the audience in active brainstorming on ways to avoid and defuse such situations.
The panel has representatives from CHAS, the Committee on Chemical Safety (which is co-sponsoring), the Committee on Ethics, and possibly one other division (if they get back to me…), as well as the VPP director
for Indiana OSHA. So we’ve got a wide variety of perspectives; it should be a great session.
There’s just one thing: We need stories to talk about.
The way we’d like to run this panel is to have several stories of disrespect, whether on the part of safety personnel or those we’re trying to protect, and to have a dialogue with the audience about them.
(We won’t be taking stories directly from the audience—the panelists would like some time to think about the case studies.)
The objective will be to find constructive ways to avoid or move beyond the situations discussed.
We’d be interested in your stories of disrespect. Email me your stories at
dkuespert**At_Symbol_Here**pm.me; names and other obvious identifying information will be removed immediately (please try to sanitize your story so that individual characters, companies, etc. aren’t
recognizable). We’ll choose the best 5-10 of them to discuss at case studies at the panel (tentatively scheduled 4-5pm Monday, March 27, 2023, following the “EHS Leadership and Diversity” symposium).
Thanks so much for your assistance!
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Daniel Kuespert, PhD, CSP
Member, American Chemical Society (ACS)
Member, ACS Division of Chemical Health & Safety (CHAS)
Associate, CCS, 2021-2022
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