The 253rd ACS National Meeting starts on Sunday in San Francisco. 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 1125.
Note: I did not have time to proofread this after putting it together. If there’s something that you want to see, double-check the time and location with the actual program!
SUNDAY, April 2
Morning
Afternoon
- High School Program; 1:00-4:25 pm; SF Marriott Marquis, Golden Gate C2 room (CHED, WCC)
- Establishing a culture of laboratory safety in secondary education
- Sex, drugs, and the high school chemistry curriculum
- Best Practices in Selecting & Presenting Safety Training Content; 1:30-3:20 pm; Park Central, Olympic room (CHAS, CCS, PRES)
- Connecting safety culture to the educational mission
- Preliminary results of the chemical safety information and education survey
- Building safety culture through targeted training
- Flipped classroom techniques in safety training
- Relevant content, positive attitude, and memorable presentation
- Ask Dr. Safety: Chemical & Occupational Safety in the Cannabis Industry; 3:35-5:15 pm; Park Central, Olympic room (CHAS, CCS)
- Sensible approach to workplace drug testing for cannabis
- Chemical and occupational safety in the cannabis industry
MONDAY, April 3
Morning
- Committee on Chemical Safety meeting; 7:00-11:30 am; Hilton SF Union, Continental Ballroom 6
- Textbooks & the Practice of Science: Before, During & After Gutenberg; 8:45-11:25 am; Park Central, Metropolitan III room (CINF, CHED, HIST)
- Supporting transmission of knowledge for chemical safety education: An information workflow supplement to the laboratory textbook
- Cannabis: Emerging Challenges in Regulations, Product Analysis & Processing; 9:00-11:25 am; Park Central, Olympic room (CHAS, CCS, SCHB)
- Cannabis analysis: An overview of testing requirements and challenges in a rapidly emerging industry
- Quality control analysis of contaminants in the medical cannabis market in California: Pesticide, plant growth regulators, residual solvents, and microbiological
contaminants in cannabis, cannabis extracts, and cannabis infused products - States as cannabis laboratories: The far-reaching implications of federal non-recognition in the regulation of marijuana contaminants
- Assessing regulatory compliance at medical cannabis operations in the United States for patient focused certification
- Challenges cannabis laboratories face in product analysis representative samples
- Hemp as a nutritional supplement: Ensuring potency, safety, and regulatory compliance in manufacturing cannabis-derived health products
- Teaching Laboratory Safety in the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum, exhibitor workshop by Flinn Scientific; 9:30 am-noon; Moscone Center room 250
Afternoon
- Undergraduate Research Posters; noon-2:00 pm; Moscone Center, Hall D (CHED)
- Chemical safety and chemical disposal
- Cannabis: Emerging Challenges in Regulations, Product Analysis & Processing; 1:30-4:05 pm; Park Central, Olympic room (CHAS, CCS, SCHB)
- Residual solvent contaminants in cannabis concentrates
- Cannabis grow facilities: Identification and handling of hazardous wastes, a problem for environmental health departments
- Thermal decomposition of THC on preparation of a distilled hash oil: A case study
- THCA and CBDA: More than simply inactive precursors
- Emerging challenges in cannabis regulations
- CANN History: The first year as a subdivision at the ACS
Evening
- Social Hour; 6:00-8:00 pm; Jillian’s at Metreon, corner of 4th and Howard (CHAS, CHAL)
- Sci-Mix; 8:00-10:00 pm; Moscone Center, Hall D
- Perception of risk in a quantitative analytical teaching laboratory
- Absence of safety education in chemistry curriculum, and normalization of deviance
- Revisiting and revising the safety ethic
- Assessing risk for undergraduate research and demonstrations
- Division of Chemical Health & Safety information poster
- Cannabis analysis: A complex job under complex circumstances
- Implementing sustainable practices in hands-off academic research labs
- Safety as a core value of a student chapter
- Improving the safety culture of the University of California, Irvine through a graduate safety fellowship
- Assessing secondhand marijuana smoke using biological markers
TUESDAY, April 4
Morning
- Information Flow in Environmental Health & Safety; 9:00 am-12:05 pm; Park Central, Olympic room (CHAS, CCS, CINF)
- Chemical safety requires a system, not a solution
- Chemical information necessary to establish laboratory ventilation control bands
- Reaction safety information: Engaging the community in collecting and sharing of safety learnings
- Chemical management applications for the University of California
- Comparing GHS hazard statements between different sources
- Talking chemical safety: Terminologies and keywords in various information sources
Afternoon
- Information Flow in Environmental Health & Safety; 1:30-4:20 pm; Park Central, Olympic room (CHAS, CCS, CINF)
- Consult the SDS
- Graduate student perspective on the ACS online tool Hazard Assessment in Research Laboratories
- Unique one-stop access to a multitude of chemical safety resources
- EPA CompTox chemistry dashboard: An online resource for environmental chemists
- Exposure driven risk assessment of nanoparticles: Towards a re-equilibration of the traditional risk = hazard x exposure equation
- Assessing the activity and toxicity profile of small molecules using freely accessible software and data: The contributions of chemical ontologies, metabolism prediction, and spectra prediction
WEDNESDAY, April 5
Morning
- What Have We Learned & Where Are We Going: Post-Settlement in the University of California; 9:00-11:30 am; Park Central, Olympic room (CHAS, CCS, PRES)
- Moving from compliance to safety in UC laboratories
- 2700 Miles and a big step forward: The UC settlement and Princeton University
- Beyond compliance: Building safety culture at UCLA
- Moving on after the settlement – the approach of a small University of California campus
- Continuous improvement opportunities in the UC system post-settlement agreement
Afternoon
- What Have We Learned & Where Are We Going: Post-Settlement in the University of California; 1:30-4:00 pm; Park Central, Olympic room (CHAS, CCS, PRES)
- Establishing a student-enforced safety culture in academic research labs
- Successfully implementing a positive safety culture in an R1 research laboratory as a graduate safety officer
- Heavy lifting of compliance: A graduate student perspective
- UC-Davis: SOP task force committee
- Continuing to promote careful chemistry in the post-settlement era
- Communicating Science in the Twenty-First Century to Diversified Audiences; 1:30-4:55pm; SF Marriott Marquis, Salons 3/4 (CHED, CPRC, CWD, PRES)
- Signaling safety in the chemistry classroom
THURSDAY, April 6
Morning
- Current Best Practices for Chemistry REU Programs; 8:00-10:45 am; SF Marriott Marquis, Sierra B room (CHED, PRES)
- Providing laboratory safety education to REU audiences