The 251st ACS National Meeting starts on Sunday in San Diego. Here’s what’s planned for chemical and laboratory safety; the Division of Chemical Health & Safety has its usual CHAS-At-A-Glance ready for printing. You can also find CHAS and the Committee on Chemical Safety in the Expo at booth 1128.
SUNDAY
Morning
- Division of Chemical Health & Safety Executive Committee Meeting (agenda book); 8:30-11:00 am, Hilton Gaslamp, Santa Rosa Room
- The Two Year Guidelines: What’s New; 8:30-11:50 am, Manchester Grand Hyatt, Promenade B (CHED)
- Chemistry-based technology programs in the 2015 ACS Guidelines for Chemistry in Two-Year College Programs
- Importance of partnerships in two-year college chemistry programs
- Safety in the 2015 two-year guidelines
- Student skills in the 2015 two-year guidelines
- Importance of student mentoring in the chemical sciences at the community college
- Student transfer and the guidelines for chemistry in two-year college programs
- Emerging trends in the two year college landscape
Afternoon
- Safety Begins in the Classroom: Demonstrations, Awareness & Pre-Lab Planning; 1:30-3:40 pm, Hilton Gaslamp, Marina Room (CHAS)
- Wild, wild west to GHS: Reflections on my first year as a general chemistry laboratory coordinator
- Safety education for early lab students: How do they learn it before they need it?
- Chemical demonstrations: The good, the bad, the ugly
- Development of demonstrations – a collaborative project between the safety office and teaching assistants
- Ask Dr. Safety: About Incident Reporting; 3:50-5:15 pm, Hilton Gaslamp, Marina Room (CHAS)
- Anatomy of an incident report
- When things go wrong … Incident reporting
- Fall 2015 InterCollegiate Cheminformatics Course; 1:30-4:30 pm, Manchester Grand Hyatt, Mission Beach A/B (CHED)
- Future intercollegiate course management systems: Under the hood of the Cheminformatics OLCC
- Future intercollegiate course management systems: Part 2 – An extensible nodal network of TLOs (Teaching and Learning Objects)
- Better data habits for better science: Chemical information literacy in the digital era
- Talking about cheminformatics to undergraduate chemistry majors
- Facilitators perspective on teaching chemical informatics as part of the Online Collaborative Chemistry (OLCC) course
- Cheminformatics directed study with OLCC
- Reviewing PubChem laboratory chemical safety summaries for different user types
- Division of Chemical Education Safety Committee Meeting; 4:00-5:30 pm, Embassy Suites San Diego Downtown Bay, Mariposa
MONDAY
Morning
- Committee on Chemical Safety and Executive Meeting; 7:30 am-12:30 pm, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, Sapphire Ballroom E/F
Afternoon
- How Texas Tech & UCLA Have Affected Laboratory Safety Nationwide; 1:30-5:00 pm, Hilton Gaslamp, Marina Room (CHAS)
- We better watch out: Prevention beats reparation
- Digging deep: The response to cultural issues
- Changing a culture: The accident at Texas Tech; what happened in the next five years, and why you should develop a culture of safety: Thoughts from the department chair at the time
- Developing a chemical safety program from lessons learned
- Developing standard operating procedures (SOPs): A tale of a really fun project (really!)
- Improving safety performance and compliance through web-based tools
- Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical Research Management: Symposium in honor of Henry E. Bryndza; 1:30-4:15 pm, Convention Center, Room 32B (INOR)
- 20 years of the presidential green chemistry challenge awards: A perspective on chemistry innovation
- Safety by design: Integration of safety / toxicology considerations into the early research process
- Only the best is good enough: The LEGO group’s journey to leave a positive impact
- Framework to guide selection of chemical alternatives
- Role of the EPA in deploying safer chemicals in both products and manufacturing processes
Evening
- Social Hour hosted by CHAS, PROF, SCHB, and BGMT; 5:30-7:30 pm, Café Sevilla, 353 Fifth Ave
- Sci-Mix; 8:00-10:00 pm, Convention Center, Halls D/E
- Division of Chemical Health and Safety Information Poster
- Safety in pictures: What message are you sending?
- Lessons learned in photos
- Lessons learned in photos: What went right
- iRAMP: A web-based model for laboratory chemical risk assessment
- Explosions and hazardous chemicals: Studying disaster preparedness with FEMA
TUESDAY
Morning
- Developing, Implementing & Teaching Hazard Assessment Tools; 8:30 am-12:20pm, Hilton Gaslamp, Marina Room (CHAS)
- Creating a culture of safety: APLU recommendations and tools for universities and colleges
- Parsing the chemical risk assessment process for the laboratory
- Incorporating hazard assessment into laboratory curricula: One pathway to growing a sustainable safety culture
- Risk analysis and crisis management in a research lab
- Software tools to assist and promote laboratory safety
- Using case studies and receiving ancillary benefits through instruction and use of what-if hazard reviews in an academic research environment
- System to identify, analyze and control the hazards of laboratory researcher at Argonne National Laboratory
- Hazard review and approval system at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Development of a database for hazard assessment and work approval in the Material Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Cannabis: Exploring the Chemistry, History & Future; 8:00 am-12:00 pm, Marriot Marquis San Diego Marina, Santa Rosa room (SCHB)
- Servicing the cannabis extraction market
- Patient advocacy for cannabis standards creates jobs in industry
- Findings on blending hemp with thermal coal for power generation
- Report from a Colorado private laboratory on regional cannabis potency from using UPLC analysis
- Rapid quantitative chemical analysis of cannabinoids in seized cannabis using heated headspace solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry
- Analytical testing for the cannabis industry: Consumer safety vs. regulatory requirements
Afternoon
- Developing, Implementing & Teaching Hazard Assessment Tools; 2:00-5:30 pm, Hilton Gaslamp, Marina Room (CHAS)
- Introduction to bowtie methodology for a laboratory setting
- Application of barrier-based approach to enhance incident investigation
WEDNESDAY
Morning
- Chemical, Sample & Asset Management Tools; 9:00 am-12:05 pm, Hilton Gaslamp, Marina Room (CHAS)
- Chemical inventories: What are they good for?
- How UNHCEMS® has evolved from a chemical inventory tracking system to an environmental management tool
- Use of RFID and scanning technologies for managing large chemical Inventories
- Developing a cloud based chemical inventory application for the University of California system (UC Chemicals)
- Using a chemical inventory system to optimize safe laboratory research
- Chemical stockroom management: Lessons learned ten years in
Afternoon
- Chemical, Sample & Asset Management Tools; 1:30-4:35 pm, Hilton Gaslamp, Marina Room (CHAS)
- UC safety: An integrated approach to your chemical management needs
- Targeted safety assessments through technology
- PubChem’s laboratory chemical safety summary (LCSS)
- Socio-legal issues in the application of semantic web technology to chemical safety
- Pre-competitive collaboration to advance laboratory safety
- Chemistry of Peace; 1:00-4:00 pm, Convention Center, Room 22 (CHAL)
- Chemical and explosives terrorism: Domestic and international implications
- Countering terrorism and attaining peace: Chemistry of peace
- Chemistry and human rights: Hand in hand for peace and stability
