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Recent Journal Highlights

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Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 1-68 (January-February 2010)

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.

The Journal of Chemical Health and Safety

The Journal of Chemical Health & Safety (JCHAS) includes peer reviewed technical articles, regular columns, news, and ideas relating to issues and advances in chemical health and safety. It's real-world information that chemical hygiene officers and others responsible for the safety of their workplaces can put to use right away...identifying potential and developing safety concerns before they do harm.

Co-published bimonthly by Elsevier Science. Inc. and the Division of Chemical Health and Safety of the American Chemical Society, Inc.

Editor: Harry J. Elston
Founding Editor: Warren K. Kingsley (pictured at right)

You can review the Journal's Table of Contents as well as read (if you're a member) or purchase articles at the Journal's site. You can also review the process for submitting an article for editoral review at our author's page.

2010 Chemical Workshops You can find out more information about these workshops by clicking on the links below:

• How To Be A More Effective Chemical Hygiene Officer
• Laboratory Waste Management
• The Laboratory Safety Workshop
• Chemical Reactivity Hazards, Laboratory Scale, Recognition & Control
• Refresher Training for Hazardous Waste Operations involving Chemicals
  
  

DCHAS Workshops will be held in 2010 at following events:

• ACS Mid Atlantic Regional Meeting, April 10 and 11
• ACS National Meeting in Boston, August

Call for Papers ACS Fall 2010 National Meeting & Exposition August 22 – 26, 2010 Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Meeting Programming Theme:

Chemistry for Preventing & Combating Disease

CHAS Symposia Currently Planned for Boston include:

San Francisco National ACS Meeting

The CHAS Technical Program for the San Francisco National ACS Meeting includes 7 symposia spread over 4 days. Topics include:

• Teaching Safety,
• Safety in the Undergraduate Classroom,
• Laboratory Design and Operation for a Sustainable Planet
• Perspectives on Biofuels: Potential Benefits and Possible Pitfalls, and
• Ask Dr. Safety about reproductive hazards in the chemical workplace

In addition, there will be presentations at Sci-Mix and a social event in addition to the usual business meetings. You can see the entire schedule on the "read more" page or by downloading CHAS at a glance in PDF format.

Welcome to the American Chemical Society's Division of Chemical Health and Safety (CHAS) web site.

CHAS generates and provides expertise in chemical and laboratory safety to the Society and the general public.

Stefan Wawzyniecki, left, and Steven Suib of the University of Connecticut display their DCHAS awards of 2008.