When Dow Chemical introduced the concept of graduate student-led joint safety teams (JST) building safety culture from the bottom up in academic chemical research laboratories in 2012, it sounded like a progressive, common-sense approach. Over the last eight years, the movement has spread to universities in double digit numbers and is adding new members all the time. The next step in this growth is building ways to measure efficacy for three main reasons. First, existing teams can figure out what strategies are most efficacious and drop strategies that are not. Second, those looking to establish new teams can focus their efforts on strategies with previously proven efficacy. Third, this data will help would-be JST founders build the case for the time and money investment by their respective schools in such teams. At the University of Connecticut, strategies to measure the effectiveness of its JST activities are being developed for Safety Moments, Peer Laboratory Walkthroughs, and Safety Days. These measurement tools and initial data will be discussed.

Joint safety teams: Measuring efficacy

Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century

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