This is wonderful news! Congratulations to Marta, Rachel, Mary Beth, and everyone involved in the process of making ACS Chemical Health & Safety a diamond access journal. The article Chemical Safety Ecosystem of the American Chemical Society: A Primer is excellent.

We have come a long way since convincing the Committee on Professional Training, and other ACS organizations, that safety should be a significant topic in the education of chemists.

Well done everyone!

Ken Fivizzani

CHAS Past Chair

CCS Past Chair

   

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Subject: [DCHAS-L] New ACS CHAS Papers

Marta and Rachel have been wrangling some of us into the new Safety Network (https://www.acs.org/about/governance/committees/chemical-safety/acs-safety-network.html) and one of the first outputs from it is this editorial, Chemical Safety Ecosystem of the American Chemical Society: A Primer (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00201). I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I did collaborating on it. Personally, I never fully understood the differences between CCS and DCHAS before this effort and I enjoyed learning about the history of DCHAS. 

The other editorial I want to point out is the announcement that ACS converted ACS Chemical Health & Safety to a diamond access journal, meaning that ACS CHAS is free to publish open access in and free to read, with all editorial and publishing costs being covered by the American Chemical Society,  American Chemical Society (ACS), Leader in Chemistry, Leader in Safety: Most Trusted. Most Cited. Most Read... Most Accessible (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00226). One of the notes we make in the editorial is the top ten most accessed articles this year, of which at least 6 are authored by DCHAS folks (this is just based on my own name recognition, so there could be more):

1.          The Piper Alpha Disaster: A Personal Perspective with Transferrable Lessons on the Long-Term Moral Impact of Safety Failures

2.          Education and Collaboration to Manage the Risks of High Energy Materials in Research and Development

3.          Beyond the Visual: Achieving Accessibility in Scientific Figures  (DCHAS author(s))

4.          Challenges of Legacy Chemicals (2025) (DCHAS author(s))

5.          A Safety Guidance Document for Lithium Aluminum Hydride (LAH) Reduction: A Resource for Developing Specific SOPs on LAH Manipulations (DCHAS author(s))

6.          Lessons Learned─Explosion and Fires Resulting from Quenching Lithium, Lithium Nitride, and Sodium (DCHAS author(s))

7.          Practical Guidelines for the Safe Use of Fluorine Gas Employing Continuous Flow Technology 

8.          How to Review a Paper

9.          Lessons Learned from a Short-Term Exposure to DMF  (DCHAS author(s))

10.        Safety Piranhas: A Review of Methods and Protocols (DCHAS author(s))

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