Membership in the Division of Chemical Heath and Safety is a powerful tool for chemical health and safety professionals in industry, academia and government.
Membership benefits include:
- paper copies of and on line access to the Journal of Chemical Health and Safety.
- a subscription to the divisional e-mail list DCHAS-L,
- discounts to Division of Chemical Health and Safety professional workshops,
- notice of papers to be presented and social events at National Meetings.
Please join us in the work of this exciting, multi-disciplinary, and practical Division of the ACS.
Read more...CHASwear is available!
For the convenience of its members, CHAS has created a store front with Lands' End that allows you to purchase Lands' End products with the CHAS Logo.
To order items with the CHAS logo, go to Lands' End using this link: http://ces.landsend.com/chas and use the drop down menus at the top of the page to find the product you're interested in.
Welcome to the American Chemical Society's Division of Chemical Health and Safety (CHAS) web site.
Welcome to our division website. The various tabs and links you'll find here provide information about our current and past activities. If you click on "Sitemap" under Information Resources, you will see an organized list of our activities and structure.
Our main contributions to the field of chemical health and safety are our journal and our technical presentations at ACS National and Regional meetings. In addition, our e-mail discussion list, DCHAS-L, hosts active exchanges of chemical safety information. We welcome your comments and invite you to participate in our activities. Click on the Contact Us tab to send us your questions and comments.
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Sincerely, Kim Jeskie, Chair (2012) |
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CHAS Highlights of the San Diego national meeting included:
- A discussion of the Escondido House: How to Safely Blow Up a House - see the press conference athttp://www.ustream.tv/recorded/21384110
- A discussion of supporting laboratory research in the commercial, academic and government sectors
- Presentations about laboratory design issues
- A presentation about developing laboratory safety videos: see this example from UC San Diego on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TqQT9Pfh_Q
Many of the presentation files from the technical sessions can be found at http://tinyurl.com/sd-chas-12
Make plans to attend the Philadelphia meeting this August. We hope to see you there!
Chemical Health and Safety News feeds maintained by the division include:
- A collection of hazmat event headlines from google at the Divisional pinboard site: http://pinboard.in/u:dchas
- Archives of the divisional e-mail list
- A Twitter feed of laboratory based chemical incidents at: @acsdchas
