The incorporation of various risk assessment techniques into an undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory will be discussed. Students used these techniques on a weekly basis as well as part of a reflection and project. Students were introduced to risk assessment during the first semester using checklists, standard operating procedures, what-if analysis, and job hazard analysis (JHA). At the end of the first semester, students wrote reflections about their experiences with these risk assessment techniques. During the second semester, students were given more responsibility: they worked individually to complete a unique JHA for every laboratory period. In each JHA, they listed the steps of the procedure and then corresponding hazards, risk ratings, and safe work procedures for each of those steps. At the end of the second semester, students completed a project titled “Risk Assessment in the Real World.” For this project, they completed two JHAs for procedures they were currently doing or would do in the future outside of the organic chemistry laboratory. Perspectives on this overall strategy will be discussed as well as plans for future refinement.

From checklists to job hazard analysis: Risk assessment journey through the undergraduate organic laboratory

Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century

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