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Scope on Safety: MSDS--What's it all about?
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OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom) requires chemical manufactures to provide material safety data sheets (MSDS) for hazardous chemicals. This column will help science teachers, supervisors, and administrators…
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Scope on Safety: MSDS out, SDS in?
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This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue talks about a revised Hazard Communication Standard.
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Safer Science: SDS: Step One to Safety
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This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses the new system of classification and labeling of chemicals.
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Safer Science: Lab Safety—A Shared Responsibility
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This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses responsibility for lab safety being in the hands of both the teacher preparatory institution and the…
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Safer Science: The Safety Legal Paper Trail
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To avoid the potential for litigation, teachers need to be informed. They must know how to prevent accidents and should be proactive to protect both themselves and students from harm in the classroom. The following…
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Safe Science: Laboratory Safety: Welcome Aboard!
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Why has The Science Teacher initiated a new safety column? Walk into a typical science classroom today and you are likely to see the teacher conducting a demonstration or students doing hands-on laboratory work. This…
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Scope on Safety: Turn up the heat--Safely!
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Is burning down your middle school science laboratory one of your biggest concerns due to the heat sources used to conduct experiments? No need to worry--your fears can be extinguished once and for all by following the…
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Safer Science: Building Safety with Engineering Controls
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Before conducting any laboratory activities, science teachers need to be in the know about the OSHA-required hierarchy of defense in the laboratory. At the top of OSHA's list are engineering controls, which are designed…
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Scope on Safety: Chemicals from cradle to grave
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School districts are not immuned to fines assessed by the Environmental Protection Agency or of becoming vicitims of unscrupulous business practices. With this in mind, schools need to consider adopting a protocol for…
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Commentary: Wanted—Advocates for science laboratory safety
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An opinion piece about the need for safety in school science laboratories and how it has dramatically increased over the past decade.
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Safer Science: Getting Students in the Safety Zone
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Students coming into science labs need initial and ongoing training about safety standards and best practices. They also need to develop good attitudes about their work and the health and safety of their teachers and…
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Scope on Safety: Space—The final frontier!
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These are the voyages of laboratory science safety! The issue of science laboratory space and class size has been on a long safety trek. For example, the National Science Education Standards and subsequent science…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Never cut corners on safety
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Teaching science in a less-than-adequately equipped room is unsafe and just plain dangerous. Where safety is concerned, there are no shortcuts, no make-do techniques that Science Scope authors or anyone else can offer…
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Safer Science: NSTA Portal to Science Safety
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The National Science Teachers Association’s (NSTA) Science Safety Advisory Board recently launched the Safety in the Science Classroom portal. This portal serves as a gateway to safety resources for teachers,…
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Scope on Safety: More ergo, less aargh!
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Is your job a pain in the neck, wrist, or back? If so, ergonomics may provide you with some relief. Ergonomics is the science of adapting workstations, tools, equipment, and job practices to be compatible with the…
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