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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

Moore, Kate (2017) The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. https://www.amazon.com/Radium-Girls-Story-Americas-Shining/dp/149264935X

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

Miralles, J. C., Negro, J. M., Alonso, J. M., García, M., Sánchez-Gascón, F., & Soriano, J. (2003). Occupational rhinitis and bronchial asthma due to TBTU and HBTU sensitization. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12968399/

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ACS Webinar: 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 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

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Miller, A.J.M.; Tonks, I.A. (2018) Let’s Talk About Safety: Open Communication for Safety Laboratories https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00627

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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The Lab Safety Institute (accessed 2026-02-04) https://www.labsafety.org/

Provan, D.J.; Woods, D.D.; Dekker, S.W.A.,Rae, A.J. (2020) Safety II professionals: How resilience engineering can transform safety practice https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0951832018309864

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Have you run drills with your experts? If you haven’t, what is stopping you from doing so?

Have you incorporated the concept of Guided Adaptability into how you approach safety in labs?

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For more information about ACS Spring 2026, visit https://acs.digitellinc.com/live/36/page/1270

Organizers for the symposium featured in this episode:

• Becca Powers: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/becca-powers-2a99ba236/⁠
• Leah Kosovsky: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-kosovsky-954111194/⁠
• Devon Leimkuhl: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/devonleimkuhl/⁠
• James Sappington
• Kyra Tripp: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyra-tripp-932b031b5/⁠
• Amanda Chung: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-chung-phd-a83694235/
• Kendra Denlinger: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendra-denlinger-b06874b0/⁠

Select speakers for the symposium featured in this episode:

• Amanda Pitt: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandapitt520/⁠
• Penny Antoniou: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/panayiota-antoniou/⁠
• Dan Scungio: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-scungio-mls-ascp-sls-cqa-asq-chop-a7ba3a16/⁠
• Jason Nagy: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-nagy-ph-d-mls-ascp-qls-8991b071/⁠

Sponsoring Divisions for the symposium featured in this episode:

• ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety: https://dchas.org/
• ACS Division of Chemical Toxicology: https://www.acschemtox.org/

Sponsoring Committees for the symposium featured in this episode:

• ACS Committee on Chemical Safety: https://www.acs.org/about/governance/committees/chemical-safety.html
• ACS Committee on Corporation Associates: https://www.acs.org/about/governance/committees/corporation-associates.html

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