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OTHM Level 3 Technical Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety. https://othm.org.uk/qualification/othm-level-3-technical-certificate-in-occupational-health-and-safety

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If there is something happening in your laboratory, institution, profession, or country that you think the research safety community should be talking about, tell me.

If your organization approaches a familiar safety problem in a way that you think others could learn from, I want to hear about it.

And if there is something we all seem to accept as normal in research safety that you think deserves a much closer look those are often the questions that resonate most with the chemical researcher that still lives inside of me.

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If someone in your laboratory got HF on their hand today, what would actually happen next?

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Huising, R.; Silbey, S..S. (2013) Constructing Consequences for Noncompliance: The Case of Academic Laboratories. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716213492633

ISO 45001:2018: Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements with guidance for use. https://www.iso.org/standard/63787.html

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I’d love to hear from you all some initial reflections, not just on the day-to-day differences, but also on authority, responsibility,scope, and money when it comes to maintaining safe laboratory environments.

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What topic are you hoping gets discussed in Season 2?

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What was your favorite episode in Season 1?

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Curie, Eve (1937) Madame Curie, A Biography. https://www.amazon.com/Madame-Curie-Biography-Eve/dp/0306810387

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McKnelly, K.J.; Sokol, W.; Nowick, J.S. (2019) Anaphylaxis Induced by Peptide Coupling Agents: Lessons Learned from Repeated Exposure to HATU, HBTU, and HCTU. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.joc.9b03280

Graham, J.C.; Trejo-Martin, A.; Chilton, M.L.; Kostal, J.; Bercu, J.; Beutner, G.L.; Bruen, U.S.; Dolan, D.G.; Gomez, S.; Hillegass, J.; Nicolette, J.; Schmitz, M. (2022) An Evaluation of the Occupational Health Hazards of Peptide Couplers. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrestox.2c00031

ACS Webinar (2025): Bonding with Caution: Understanding the Hazards of Peptide Couplers https://www.acs.org/acs-webinars/library/hazards-of-peptide-couplers.html

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Have you ever dismissed signals that you later discovered were critical?

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McKnelly, K.J.; Sokol, W.; Nowick, J.S. (2019) Anaphylaxis Induced by Peptide Coupling Agents: Lessons Learned from Repeated Exposure to HATU, HBTU, and HCTU. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.joc.9b03280

Graham, J.C.; Trejo-Martin, A.; Chilton, M.L.; Kostal, J.; Bercu, J.; Beutner, G.L.; Bruen, U.S.; Dolan, D.G.; Gomez, S.; Hillegass, J.; Nicolette, J.; Schmitz, M. (2022) An Evaluation of the Occupational Health Hazards of Peptide Couplers. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrestox.2c00031

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Have you worked through challenges of working with chemical sensitizers with a lab group?

If not, has this episode inspired you to start asking more questions about chemical sensitizer use in your labs?

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ACS CHAS Peer-Led Workshops (accessed 2026-03-30): https://dchas.org/2023/08/22/history-of-the-chas-lst-workshop-2/

Hensley, M.S.; Martin, J.A.; Miller, K.A.; Hungwe, K.N. (2024) Laboratory Safety Teams as an Evolving Community of Practice: Exploring the How and Why https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00702

Feldon, D.F.; Litson, K.L.; Jeong, S.; Roksa, J. (2019) Postdocs’ lab engagement predicts trajectories of PhD students’ skill development https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1912488116

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Martin, J.A.; Miller, K.; Nyansa (now Hensley), M.; Zinn, S.; Stuart, R. (2021) Enhancing Research Productivity through Student-Led Laboratory Safety Teams https://www.acs.org/acs-webinars/library/student-led-safety.html

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To try to see things from the graduate student researcher perspective, consider how work inside of labs at your institution gets done. At this point, refrain from assigning blame or jumping directly into who should be responsible. Instead, just think about the situations that these early career people are walking into and what they are seeing.

● Are lab workers working around a mess that existed before them?

● Are they trying to find space in the lab for their own work by moving aside work that no longer belongs to anyone working in this lab?

● Are they trying to address inspection items that they know little about?

● Are they being required to engage with systems that don’t help them do their research better? For example, dysfunctional chemical inventory systems, poorly defined hazardous waste procedures, challenges with space.

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