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The Safety “Use Case”: Co-Developing Chemical Information Management and Laboratory Safety Skills
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posted on 2015-11-17, 00:00 authored by Ralph B. Stuart, Leah R. McEwenThe 2015 edition of the American
Chemical Society’s Guidelines and Evaluation Procedures
for Bachelor’s Degree
Programs identifies six skill sets that undergraduate chemistry
programs should instill in their students. In our roles as support
staff for chemistry departments at two different institutions (one
a Primarily Undergraduate Institution, the other a research intensive
university), we have been collaboratively studying these requirements
and have found significant synergies between two in particular: “Chemical
Literature and Information Management Skills” and “Laboratory
Safety Skills”. We believe that by integrating emerging tools
in the laboratory safety field into information literacy frameworks,
a strong foundation can be established for the development of all
the skills called out by the ACS. This article describes this strategy
and provides examples of how these concepts can be implemented in
both the chemistry teaching and research laboratory settings.