DCHAS-L Archives, Nov 14, 2024 - Re: [DCHAS-L] Graduate student Safety course

Brava, bravisimo, Amy. Just when I was about to give up the idea of a proper lab safety course at the university level, you came along and restored my faith that somewhere it is going right. I teach a 40-hour course to professionals in art and entertainment for the same reason. And to make sure it continues, I have attached an endowment to the course at the U of Delaware. It did this because I know the course would not continue after I'm gone. And we need a professional approach to safety in my industry, too.

It's wonderful that ASC and other institutes are providing safety courses, but it needs to be a REQUIREMENT to graduate in chemistry. Unless a graduate knows how to do their work safely and in compliance with regulations, their school, in my opinion, is committing a fraudulent act when they hand them that degree.

Monona

On Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 11:07:35 AM EST, Amy Lea Moore <000015f7fb7ee9f7-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**lists.princeton.edu> wrote:

Hi Debbie,

At The Ohio State University, I teach a 7-week graduate course on lab safety during the last half of the Autumn semester. It is required of all Chemistry and Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering graduate students. They are required to complete hands-on fire extinguisher training as part of the course. A few of the topics that I cover is: Waste disposal at OSU, Lab Std, responding to emergencies, fume hoods, spill control, GHS, SDSs, other OSHA standards, Hazard assessments, RAMP, PPE, Flammable liquids and some fire code, chemical incompatibles, chemical storage, pyrophorics, gloveboxes, Schlenk lines, Rotovap safety, oil bath/hot plate safety, compressed gases, cyro liquids, BioSafety, RAD safety, Ergonomics, Laser safety, X-ray safety, and lessons learned and corrective actions.

This is my 3 year teaching the course and I add more topics each year.

ALM

Amy L Moore

On Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at 02:08:15 PM EST, Wright, James <00000fa689fe8428-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**lists.princeton.edu> wrote:

Hi Debbie,
University of Chicago would have a daylong crash course in safety for all incoming chemistry graduate students with lectures in the morning and hands on activities (fire extinguisher, spill cleanup, eye wash and safety shower, and one other “station” that I’m drawing a blank on) in the afternoon. Graduate Teaching Assistants then completed an Advanced Training Course detailed in https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00578. I helped take over the safety lecture in 2016 and discussed more advanced risk assessments that built on the previous crash course instead of the compressed gas safety that the publication mentions and added a careers in safety lecture.

Jim Wright

Research Operations Manager | MCCS

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Debbie,

In our department, I teach a five-part series with four of them in the laboratory with hands-on activities. They have materials to look over before they attend each session. It’s not an official class but part of our required seminar series and grade the first semester of graduate school.

Regards,

Tammy

Tammy Rechtin, Ph.D.

Chemical Engineering Safety Coordinator

Ralph E. Martin, Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Arkansas

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Hi Debbie,

I'm a grad student at The Ohio State University. We have a safety class for graduate students.

You might want to contact the Chemistry and Biochemistry department safety coordinator for more information. She teaches and coordinates the class.

Name: Amy Moore

Email: moore.2212**At_Symbol_Here**osu.edu

Best,

Yetunde

On Thu, Nov 7, 2024, 6:52 PM Debbie Decker <debbie.m.decker**At_Symbol_Here**gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all

Who has been able to include a safety course for graduate students at their institution?

Required? Hands-on? How much time/units?

Thanks

D-

Debbie M. Decker (she/her/hers), ACS Fellow
Chemical and Laboratory Safety Manager (ret.)
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