Division of Chemical Health and Safety
American Chemical Society

Message from the Chair

Welcome to the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Health and Safety (CHAS) web site. CHAS provides expertise in laboratory safety and chemical management and safe chemical work practices to the Society and the general public. To accomplish this mission, the Division:

maintains an online listserv for CHAS members to promote discussion and information sharing.

Check out the "News and Upcoming Events" section to see the Division's activities. The 2008 CHAS Annual Report is also available to review (in PDF format).

If you are just learning about CHAS, please review our membership benefits and information about the Journal of Chemical Health & Safety.

We are regularly updating the site, so please check back to see what is new. We welcome your comments.

Sincerely,

Russ Phifer, Chair (2009)
ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety

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Information About Who We Are

Division Officers

Committees and Liaisons

Divisional Awards

Administrative Archives

Technical Archives

Membership Application

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Executive Committee Reference Materials

(These documents are in PDF format.)

The Divisional Administrative Manual

The Divisional Annual Report to ACS

The Executive Committee Meeting Minutes for the Philadelphia National Meeting (pdf format)

The Executive Committee Meeting Agenda and attachments for the Salt Lake City National Meeting (pdf format)

Information collected at the divisional Strategic Planning workshop is updated by using the CHAS wiki at http://esf.uvm.edu/chas_wiki

News and Upcoming Events

CHAS at a Glance for DC

The complete schedule of CHAS related activities at the Washington DC ACS meeting in August is downloadable here in PDF format.

Organolithium Compound Safety

Information about Safe Handling of Organolithium Compounds in the Laboratory (in PDF format) can be found in this article from the Journal of Chemical Health and Safety's archives. In addition, reports from the California Department of Public Health to the public and to NIOSH on UCLA pyrophoric incident are now available, also in PDF format.

CHAS Workshops Schedule

CHAS will be offering a variety of workshops are regional meetings this summer. The schedule for these Workshops is now available on our registration page. Abstracts of these are available here.

CHAS Logo Wear Available As of June, 2008, CHAS members can purchase clothing from Land's End on line store with the new divisional logo embroidered on it at http://ces.landsend.com/chas

Think Safety Bracelets Now Available The ACS Committee on Chemical Safety has developed a "Think Safety" bracelet which is now available from the ACS on line web store. Packages of 10 are $12.50.

Related Organizations :

ACS Committee on Chemical Safety: Their web site includes access to basic chemical safety publications on chemical safety and links to other Laboratory Safety web sites.

AIChE Safety & Health Division provides a quarterly newsletter of chemical safety interest through their web site.

Laboratory Safety Institute: provides additional Laboratory Safety training opportunities nationally. Their schedule is available on their web site

Oxford University Press: ACS Members Receive a 30% Discount on ACS books from Oxford University Press! The catalog with member prices is available at http://www.oup.com/us/acs

C&E News: safety letters to the editor at http://pubs.acs.org/cen/safety/index.html