There are a number of published vocabularies in chemical health and safety but few are represented in forms that can be applied to digital workflows. We are developing a use-case driven approach to identify a lightweight set of key terms generally in use by the scientific research and chemical safety communities in laboratory chemical hygiene plans, risk assessment exercises and emergency response procedures as well as laboratory experimental methods. These terms could be used to further mine such documents and help surface connections among various processes as well as chemical factors that safety officers and the scientists they support need to consider to assess risk and conduct mindful procedures. This presentation will discuss a manual annotation project to capture the range of terms of interest to EHS officers in published descriptions of chemical reactivity incompatibilities.

Talking chemical safety: Terminologies and keywords in various information sources

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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