Chemsafety programming at ACSSanDiego

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)

o We better watch out: Prevention beats reparation

o Digging deep: The response to cultural issues

o 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

o Developing a chemical safety program from lessons learned

o Developing standard operating procedures (SOPs): A tale of a really fun project (really!)

o 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)

o 20 years of the presidential green chemistry challenge awards: A perspective on chemistry innovation

o Safety by design: Integration of safety / toxicology considerations into the early research process

o Only the best is good enough: The LEGO group’s journey to leave a positive impact

o Framework to guide selection of chemical alternatives

o 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