Teaching Safely, Teaching Safety

 Peaks to Praries Pollution Prevention 

Information and Tools

Laboratory Self-Audit: Setting Up Your Audit
Classrooms and laboratories practicing pollution prevention are safer for students and in most cases easier on the school budget besides being fairly easy to implement. However, changes in thinking must occur to make the initial effort a success. Lay the groundwork for change before using the Self-Audit Checklists included in this resource. Start with some basic grassroots organizing using these suggestions or some of the many community development resources available. The result will be a program that works for your school community.  Read more

Checklists

• Art Teachers Checklist
• Family & Consumer Science (Home Economics) Checklist
• Vocational Education (Shop, Ag Ed, etc.) Checklist

Posters

• Green Clean poster
• Chemicals at School poster
• Clean Air poster
• Hazardous Chemicals poster
• Integrated Pest Management poster
• Save Energy at School poster
• Top 10 Things You Can Do to Green Your School
• Waste Reduction poster

Safety in the Undergraduate Classroom

A CHED/CHAS symposium on “Safety in the Undergraduate Classroom” is scheduled for the national American Chemical Society meeting in Anaheim in March 2011.    

The symposium description is:  “In 2008 the ACS Committee on Professional Training published the revised Guidelines for Bachelor’s Degree Programs which affirm that undergraduate chemistry programs must include safety education ‘as an integral part of the chemistry curriculum’ and that ‘throughout their studies students must experience safety procedures and processes.’  This symposium will include presentations of how different colleges and universities design and implement safety instruction in chemistry courses, both in individual courses and in curriculum-wide programs.  By sharing successful programs, we can all improve what we do on our home campuses and better educate our students for their future careers as safe scientists.”

Abstracts submission opened on August 23 and will close on November 1.  Abstracts may be submitted at: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_id=432&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=4a6243b7-7507-41ab-a43d-ab47cee2ab78

Previous similar symposia at the ACS meeting in San Francisco (March 2010) and the BCCE (August 2010) offered many useful ideas about academic safety programs to attendees.

Interim queries may be directed to me.

Thanks. 

Dave

David C. Finster
Professor of Chemistry
University Chemical Hygiene Officer
Department of Chemistry
Wittenberg University
dfinster@wittenberg.edu