Jyllian Kemsley posted: "The 250th ACS National Meeting starts on Sunday in Boston. 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 o" New post on The Safety Zone #Chemsafety programming at #ACSBoston by Jyllian Kemsley The 250th ACS National Meeting starts on Sunday in Boston. 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 425. SUNDAY Morning Division of Chemical Health & Safety Executive Committee meeting; here's the agenda book; breakfast at 8:00 AM, meeting 8:30-11:30 AM, Seaport Hotel, Seaport Ballroom A Designing Safer Chemicals; 8:00-11:35 AM, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, St. James Room (ENVR) On the design of safer commercial chemicals: Past, present, and future perspectives Predicting cytotoxity based on EPA ToxCast data and designing safer chemicals Framework to guide selection of chemical alternatives Designing safer chemicals: Application of the principles of green chemistry in a chemical company Predictive tools for bioavailability and oxidative stress based on spectroscopic data Exploiting enhanced non-testing approaches to meet the needs for sustainable chemistry Advancing safety assessments of chemicals through biological read across using multidimensional in vitro toxicity testing Need for safer chemicals and rapid screening tools: The 2014 Freedom Industries chemical spill, West Virginia, USA No substitutes allowed: Chemical processes that have thus far eluded a green alternative Toxicology and Environmental Impact in the Chemistry Curriculum: Science and Strategies for Educators - State of the Art Symposium; 8:30 AM-12:05 PM, Convention Center, Room 253B (CHED) Opportunities to incorporate toxicology into the chemistry curriculum: Report from the field Toxicology of "low doses": Understanding endocrine disrupting chemicals Designing safer chemicals: Environmental attributes in chemical design Combining Scientific Evidence for Health Policy and Regulation; 8:50-11:50 AM, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Arlington Room (AGRO) Accounts table, a tool for structuring the integration and interpretation of evidence regarding causation of toxic effects from chemical exposure Integration of mechanistic and epidemiologic evidence in the identification and classification of human carcinogens Weight of evidence and quantitative data integration using multicriteria decision analysis New model to track strawberry harvester activity and predict pesticide exposure Consideration of the weight of evidence in local antipesticide initiatives: The Montgomery County, Maryland experience Pesticide use on medical marijuana: An emerging crop that has no EPA-registered plant protection agents Afternoon Lab Safety 25 Years After Promulgation of the OSHA Laboratory Standard; 1:30-4:15 PM, Seaport Hotel, Waterfront 1A/1B (CHAS) University laboratory safety in 2015: Was it the lab standard or what? Enhancing safety culture through collaborative development of laboratory specific chemical hygiene plan (LSCHP) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) What constitutes a laboratory? Princeton laboratory safety programs today and beyond From accident analysis to accident prevention at UCLA Impact of the OSHA Laboratory Standard on basic laboratory safety education for undergraduates Where are we with lab safety education: Who, what, when, where, and how? Should science departments have their own safety departments? An assessment of a centralized approach 21st Century Chemistry Education: Formal and Informal; 1:30-5:00 PM, Convention Center, Room 158 (PRES) A community for teachers of chemistry by teachers of chemistry Young chemists in action: The benefits of informal chemistry education Promoting excellence in chemistry teaching through in-service professional development Making connections: Mentoring, networking, and presenting makes a difference for us and others as educators Teacher-tested, but student-blackbox online professional development for chemistry teachers Engaging researchers and students as partners in education and outreach Toxicology and Environmental Impact in the Chemistry Curriculum: Science and Strategies for Educators - State of the Art Symposium; 1:30-5:25 PM, Convention Center, Room 253B (CHED) How training chemist in 21st century toxicology contributes to the design of lower toxicity products Evolution of structure-activity relationship (SAR) methodology in 21st century toxicity prediction Harnessing toxicity testing in the 21st century to help train chemists Designing Safer Chemicals; 1:30-5:25 PM, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, St. James Room (ENVR) Alerts about toxicity alerts Chemical design process at the crossroads of product efficacy and risk assessment Use of computational toxicology for evaluating potential endocrine bioactivity and exposure Assessing the accuracy of software predictions of mammalian and microbial metabolites Quantitative structure-functional ingredient relationships (qFIRs): Development of a data-driven workflow for alternatives ingredient assessments for in silico molecular repurposing Quantitative structure-activity relationships for predicting toxicity and biodegradability of biosynthetic and bio-inspired glycolipid surfactants Screening/prioritization of chemicals and QSAR "Benign by Design" approach: The cumulative PBT index model in QSARINS Analysis of xenobiotic properties leading to electrophilic or radical activation of Nrf2-keep1 pathway in ToxCast Quantum chemistry blueprints for greener chelating agents Coupling the power of high throughput zebrafish screening and synthetic chemistry to design safer chemicals Division of Chemical Education Safety Committee Meeting; 7:00-5:30 PM, Seaport Hotel, Cambridge 1 MONDAY Morning Committee on Chemical Safety Executive Meeting; 8:30 AM-12:00 pm, Sheraton Boston Hotel, Back Bay C Toxicology and Environmental Impact in the Chemistry Curriculum: Science and Strategies for Educators - State of the Art Symposium; 8:30-11:25 AM, Convention Center, Room 253B (CHED) Infusing toxicology throughout the chemistry curriculum at South Dakota State University Teaching toxicology and environmental impact: A toxicology course for chemistry majors at Simmons College Teaching toxicology through a laboratory safety program Integrating toxicology and green chemistry into a single course? Yes, it can be done Incorporating principles of toxicology and environmental health into the chemistry curriculum at UC Berkeley Introducing chemical toxicology in the organic chemistry curriculum Lab Safety 25 Years After Promulgation of the OSHA Laboratory Standard; 8:30-11:35 AM, Seaport Hotel, Waterfront 1A/1B (CHAS) Reflections of an OSHA regulator on the Laboratory Standard Meandering towards OSHA's lab standard compliance "Compliance" does not mean "safe" Developing a model for chemical safety literacy in the lab Chemical hygiene plans: The vision and the reality DOE Energy Innovation Hub's effort to influence laboratory safety among its funded researchers UMMS: Multiphase laboratory relocation and 3-2-1 process Laboratory safety: Engaging 600+ research groups Afternoon Chemical Health & Safety Awards; 1:30-4:25 PM, Seaport Hotel, Waterfront 1A/1B (CHAS) Musings of a founder of the Chemical Health and Safety Division Laboratory safety in the 21st century 12,000 thoughts on laboratory safety in 20 minutes or less SafetyStratus Collegiate Safety Award From the safety beat: The UCLA fatality and beyond (by yours truly) Science, safety, and human suffering Citizens First: Using Real-World Contexts for Engaging Students in Learning Chemistry; 1:30-4:55 pm, Convention Center, Room 253C (CHED) Ethics and spirituality: What are they doing in my science textbook? Making water personal Using the climate debate to teach general chemistry Experiential learning through course development and implementation of green general chemistry labs Application based service learning in the first year chemistry sequence Community-based learning in environmental chemistry: Arsenic testing in rural Maine Development of laboratory experiences that build a foundation in chemistry for pre-health students: Using context, pedagogy, and chemical principles Fighting with food: Battling chemical toxicity with good nutrition Spreading the industrial safety culture into classrooms: The role of corporate volunteer programs TUESDAY Morning Transforming University-Industry Partnerships for an Innovative Future; 8:15-12:10 PM, Westin Boston Waterfront, Burroughs (PRES) Future of industrial - academic partnerships Spectrum of engagement for research, collaboration, and innovation Making the most of university-industry alliances Alignment, development, and sustainment of the strategic research partnership Role of the federal government Current Topics in Chemical Safety Information; 9:00-11:30 AM, Seaport Hotel, Waterfront 1A/1B (CHAS) Organizing chemical information to support lab safety Keeping your kids away from poisonous chemicals: Chemical safety in the household Updating NFPA 45: Fire protection for laboratories using chemicals Blueprint for successful chemical management at Yale's West Campus Chemistry lab safety information resources for academic user Teaching future chemists how to create meaningful risk assessment tools Afternoon Transforming University-Industry Partnerships for an Innovative Future; 1:30-5:00 PM, Westin Boston Waterfront, Burroughs (PRES) Creating structures for fruitful university- industrial research partnerships National network for manufacturing innovation Building a co-creation system for focused innovation Engaging Value Chain members to improve new product launch success Balancing the university's overarching policy for openness and dissemination of information with industry=E2=80™s need for confidentiality for translational R University of Cincinnati Simulation Center: A UC Engineering and P&G collaboration Current Topics in Chemical Safety Information; 1:30-5:00 PM, Seaport Hotel, Waterfront 1A/1B (CHAS) Designing a hazard and risk assessment protocol for undergraduate instruction and use Experience with data handling in large chemical databases Ensuring that lessons learned are not forgotten: Leveraging ELN to transform the safety paradigm Encoding reactive chemical hazards and incompatibilities in an alerting system Biological and ecological toxicity of engineered nanomaterials eNanoMapper: A database and ontology framework for nanomaterials design and safety assessment Data, data everywhere, nor any bit processable: Opportunities for amalgamating and opening up chemical data and information relevant to hazard recognition and safety planning It's all in how you do it: Annotating process conditions in laboratory chemical hazard recognition and risk management Jyllian Kemsley | August 12, 2015 at 7:30 am | Categories: ACS National Meeting, Featured | URL: http://wp.me/pRCdG-rrt