The Plan for the Day

Starting ThoughtArt is not a mirror held up to

reality but a hammer used to shape it

Bertholt  Brecht

Information Management Take-AwaysThe good news:Chemical safety information is

becoming structured in more useful ways for computer handling.

There are already web-based services that do most of what we need on the computer side.

A Summary Chart

Today’s Agenda1. Martin Walker on Learn Chemistry

and the Wikipedia Chemboxes platforms

2. Debbie Decker demo of UC’s LHAT3. Discuss Opportunities and Threats4. Identify Next Steps

Resources availableSmart peopleCash on hand: about $10,000Industrial interestMeeting opportunities: ACS

national meetings?, regional meetings

Mediawiki / CHAS blog

Strategic Priorities to Balance

Option 1 Option 2

Core audience is lab people

Core audience is oversight

Rooms People

Operating guidance Oversight hooks

Operational tool Chemist education

Control banding HAZOP

Process orientation Chemical orientation

Lessons Learned Planned

Platform orientation Administrative considearions

Opportunities

1. Provides a training /educational tool to support lab safety skill acquisition

2. Incorporation into lab electronic data flow3. External interest in academic lab safety4. Upcoming National Academy of Sciences report

on Lab Safety Culture5. Change the planning process to include hazard

awareness and assessment6. Include Green Chemistry7. Support culture shifts 8. New data paradigms (GHS, RAMP)9. Learning organization10. Better safety conditions11. Multimedia availability and new communication

methods

Threats

1. Culture change is slow2. Pencil whipping / pop up fatigue3. Intellectual Property Concerns4. Competing IT priorities5. Liability Concerns6. Funding7. External Deadlines8. Community awareness of the tool9. Explosion of data and information in general

requires curations and validation10. Jargon and regulatory language relative to

user education

Prioritize top 5 Strengths and Opportunities

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Prioritize top 5 Weaknesses and Threats

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Activity ideasDevelop a administrative

platformDevelop a content platformConduct risk assessment

workshops at regional ACS meetings, ChemEd meetings

Work with government agencies for a more robustly supported system (NLM, NIH, NIOSH)

Next StepsProduce a report focused on

ideas discussed and key points made

Understand industrial interest in, and resources available for, a public domain platform

Consider developing a proposal for further efforts

Call for VolunteersWe need expert help with:

◦Controlled vocabularies chemical & physical process (operations,

conditions) PPE & engineering controls (parameters, triggers)

◦Logic/rubrics for these processes (ventilation 'housekeeping')

◦Advocacy for access and computer use of authoritative sources Brethericks orgysn.org

◦Connect to Bob Belford

Issues to keep in mind

Skills acquisition and assessmentUsable referencesLab safety certificate

Afternoon Issues

Process ontology reviewParsing examples Seeding vs. User Interface design:

leaning towards starting with the chickenTemplate development

Next StepsRob and Ralph will check in with Bob Belford

about recent parsing developmentsLeah and Ralph with connection with BMS

around the opportunities for open data intetfaces

Leah, Ralph and Debbie will check in with UCalifornia IT development

Set up a mediawiki test site for define screens

Implement seeding process in class settingsImplement seeding process in training

settings.