Many stakeholders and professionals have need of information related to chemical safety, from practicing researchers and lab managers, to science educators, to college and high school level students, to policy makers, to the public, and many other sectors. These user  groups are engaged in a variety of activities that may involve the need to make some decisions or new learn concepts that impact chemical safety in some way, in their own environment or on behalf of others. Like chemistry itself, chemical safety is a multi-faceted process in any environment with many potential variables and no simple answers. Case studies can be a powerful way to communicate complex safety scenarios that focus on key considerations. Matching these stories up to a diversity of user scenarios can help make make safety personal, relevant, applicable, and accessible in a variety of contexts. This talk will explore the opportunity and challenge of developing and disseminating chemical safety messaging with different audiences, frameworks and delivery strategies from an information perspective.

Is this chemical safe? What do I really need to know and how do I find out

2019 Fall National Meeting

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