Traditional vehicles for communicating reaction safety information often are blunt instruments that cannot communicate subtle but important nuances that can make the difference between safe and dangerous. In an effort to prevent repetition of adverse incidents, members of the Pistoia Alliance (http://www.pistoiaalliance.org) are investigating the sharing of incident "lessons learned" that can be translated into rules and alerts for all to use prior to initiating a chemical reaction.

Pre-competitive collaboration to advance laboratory safety

251st National Meeting (2016)

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