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The Plan for the Day

The Plan for the Day. Starting Thought. Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer used to shape it Bertholt  Brecht. Information Management Take- Aways. The good news: Chemical safety information is becoming structured in more useful ways for computer handling.

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The Plan for the Day

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  1. The Plan for the Day

  2. Starting Thought • Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer used to shape it Bertholt  Brecht

  3. Information Management Take-Aways • The 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.

  4. A Summary Chart

  5. Today’s Agenda • Martin Walker on Learn Chemistry and the Wikipedia Chemboxes platforms • Debbie Decker demo of UC’s LHAT • Discuss Opportunities and Threats • Identify Next Steps

  6. Resources available • Smart people • Cash on hand: about $10,000 • Industrial interest • Meeting opportunities: ACS national meetings?, regional meetings • Mediawiki / CHAS blog

  7. Strategic Priorities to Balance

  8. Opportunities • Provides a training /educational tool to support lab safety skill acquisition • Incorporation into lab electronic data flow • External interest in academic lab safety • Upcoming National Academy of Sciences report on Lab Safety Culture • Change the planning process to include hazard awareness and assessment • Include Green Chemistry • Support culture shifts • New data paradigms (GHS, RAMP) • Learning organization • Better safety conditions • Multimedia availability and new communication methods

  9. Threats • Culture change is slow • Pencil whipping / pop up fatigue • Intellectual Property Concerns • Competing IT priorities • Liability Concerns • Funding • External Deadlines • Community awareness of the tool • Explosion of data and information in general requires curations and validation • Jargon and regulatory language relative to user education

  10. Prioritize top 5 Strengths and Opportunities

  11. Prioritize top 5 Weaknesses and Threats

  12. Activity ideas • Develop a administrative platform • Develop a content platform • Conduct risk assessment workshops at regional ACS meetings, ChemEd meetings • Work with government agencies for a more robustly supported system (NLM, NIH, NIOSH)

  13. Next Steps • Produce 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

  14. Call for Volunteers We 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

  15. Issues to keep in mind Skills acquisition and assessment Usable references Lab safety certificate

  16. Afternoon Issues Process ontology review Parsing examples Seeding vs. User Interface design: leaning towards starting with the chicken Template development

  17. Next Steps • Rob and Ralph will check in with Bob Belfordabout recent parsing developments • Leah 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 settings • Implement seeding process in training settings.

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