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Scope on Safety: Safety's Within Your Grasp
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses assessing safety issues during a model's testing phase....
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Scope on Safety: Safety Requires Collaboration
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue covers teachers receiving multidisciplinary safety training....
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Scope on Safety: LAMP: Shining a Light on Safety
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses LAMP: an acronym for lead, asbestos, mercury, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).The article describes where in the school building each of these health hazard...
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Scope on Safety: Kitchen Chemistry and Safety
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue covers guidelines for household chemical use....
Blog Post
Lab Incident at a Manhattan High School: Another Hard Safety Lesson to Learn
On January 2, 2014, a chemistry lab safety incident involving a fire injured students at Beacon High School in Manhattan (NYC). An article in The New York Times reported that two students were burned as a result of a fireball of methanol vapor create...
By Kenneth Roy
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Scope on Safety: Eating in the Lab: A Recipe for Disaster
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses the rules associated with eating in the science laboratory....
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Scope on Safety: Pregnant and Safe in the Lab
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses how to be safe in the lab while pregnant....
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Scope on Safety: Safety in Videos
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue addresses safety issues that accompany the increased access to and use of experiments found in videos....