Are you a student looking to dive into chemical practise or expand your lab knowledge? This is a great place to get started. The following resources will help you brush your basics while guiding you to get comfortable and SAFE in a lab!
This self-guided, online course offers education on chemical safety concepts for undergraduates who have completed two semesters of general chemistry and one semester of organic chemistry, including labs. Students will learn to:
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These guidelines are intended to assist faculty and staff as they develop, enhance and assess the safety education of their students. The goal of these guidelines is to enable students to develop an understanding of the principles of chemical safety and apply them when working in a lab.
ACS guide offering suggestions, and recommendations that can help strengthen the safety culture in two- and four-year undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral programs. The guide focuses the best elements and best practices of a good safety culture.
Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) invited ACS to participate in creating the roadmap for a university-wide effort to strengthen a culture of research safety. This guide has action steps, resources and recommendations to help navigate the challenge of promoting safety culture in institutions.
The report examines the culture of safety in research institutions and makes recommendations for university leadership, laboratory researchers, environmental health and safety professionals to support safety as a core value of their institutions.
This guide was developed by the Hazard Identification and Evaluation Task Force of the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Chemical Safety (CCS) and provides techniques to ensure hazard information is gathered and analyzed:
This guide is applicable for researchers of all levels—undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, instructors, principal investigators (PIs), technicians, or department chairs—who have varied approaches to learning and experimental design and who may require different kinds of assessment tools.
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Engage with other members of the chemical safety community. Membership provides networking opportunities, access to career advancement tools, meeting discounts, and more.
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