Safety in Academic Chemistry

Committee on Chemical Safety (1995) Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories, 6th edn. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 70 pp. 

SAFETY in Academic Chemistry Laboratories, 1990 by the American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. This excellent booklet on safety is available from the American Chemical Society. To obtain a copy, call 1-800- 227-5558 and ask Sales and Distribution for further information. 

General laboratory safety information particularly applicable to this organic chemistry laboratory course is presented in this chapter. It is not comprehensive. Throughout this text you will find specific cautions and safety information presented as margin notes printed in red. For a relatively brief and more thorough discussion of all of the topics in this chapter you should read the first 35 pages of Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., 1990. 

This experiment, if properly executed, follows the guidelines found in an American Chemical Society publication (Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories) which state that fume hoods, eyewash stations, and safety showers should be tested regularly for proper operation and that students should know how to operate these devices. It also serves to help bring safety issues to the forefront in the students study of chemistry. 

Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories, 4th ed., American Chemical... 

Safety materials produced by ACS and its committees and divisions are available in English and sometimes in other languages. For example, the publication Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories (SACL) is used widely abroad the Spanish translation is used in South and Central America. The CCS also has several members who have engaged in safety training... 

I. Prudent Practices in the Laboratory II. Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories ni. NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards... 

Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories Volume 1 — Accident Prevention for College and University Student, 7th edition... 

Similar statements are found in Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories ( 7). Academic institutions have a moral and professional responsibility to train. students in safe laboratory practices." p. 41. 

Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories (7) should be required for all students taking college and university general chemistry courses. Reference should be made to this booklet as part of the laboratory safety training. Its use should be reinforced in other chemistry laboratory courses. Students who take only general chemistry should be advised to keep the book as a reference in other laboratories they may take where chemicals are used. They should also be advised that the book represents basic laboratory safety practices that are also applicable to employment in chemically related laboratory jobs. 

A set of these recommendations about CH S topics, terms, and concepts that should be incorporated into undergraduate courses and textbooks should be published in J. Chem. Ed. and Chem. Health and Safety. Alternatively, a booklet similar to Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories could be published. 

We needed an unimpeachable outside reference source for safety plans to convince our colleagues that there was a better way to do business. We found this in "Prudent Practices" the two volumes developed by Blue Ribbon panels of scientists with unimpeachable reputations who took the time to develop better ways to deal with chemicals in the laboratory." We also studied and then adopted "SAFETY in Academic Chemistry Laboratories" (SACL), a manual we had been giving to Chemistry graduate students for some time, as an inexpensive source of sound safety advice, that we could distribute widely across campus. ... 

The OSHA Savvy chemist must know how to find, use, and adapt information from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs). Therefore, there should be no argument that education related to MSDSs is appropriate for chemistry students. Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories (2) states that information from them should be incorporated as part of all laboratory procedures. The National Research Council committee that prepared Prudent Practices (1) recommends that students in laboratory classes be included in the safety education appropriate for all other laboratory workers, and that this education, which includes the use of MSDSs, cannot be assumed to be optional. However, an instructor is faced with several problems when considering the introduction of safety related topics in undergraduate chemistry courses. These include the matter of appropriateness, when and where in the curriculum to introduce such material, and accessible... 

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