An undergraduate safety course, first developed in 2015 through an academic and industrial collaboration, is cultivating and growing the University of Pittsburgh Department of Chemistry’s safety programs and culture. This presentation will describe how the course is inspiring and empowering undergraduate and graduate students to contribute to a developing safety culture by becoming safety leaders in the Department. Collaborations between students, faculty, staff, and EHS are helping to refine and create the hands-on course activities and curricula and are transforming the departmental teacher training safety program. Student-centered S<i>afety Integration Teams</i> are beginning the work of holistically incorporating safety education, consistent with ACS Guidelines for Chemical Laboratory Safety in Academic Institutions, directly into the undergraduate chemistry laboratory curricula.

Safety-culture growth catalyzed by an undergraduate laboratory safety course

2019 Fall National Meeting

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