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ACS CHAS Peer-Led Workshops (accessed 2026-03-30): https://dchas.org/2023/08/22/history-of-the-chas-lst-workshop-2/

Hensley, M.S.; Martin, J.A.; Miller, K.A.; Hungwe, K.N. (2024) Laboratory Safety Teams as an Evolving Community of Practice: Exploring the How and Why https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00702

Feldon, D.F.; Litson, K.L.; Jeong, S.; Roksa, J. (2019) Postdocs’ lab engagement predicts trajectories of PhD students’ skill development https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1912488116

Miller, A.J.M.; Tonks, I.A. (2018) Let’s Talk About Safety: Open Communication for Safety Laboratories https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00627

Martin, J.A.; Miller, K.; Nyansa (now Hensley), M.; Zinn, S.; Stuart, R. (2021) Enhancing Research Productivity through Student-Led Laboratory Safety Teams https://www.acs.org/acs-webinars/library/student-led-safety.html

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To try to see things from the graduate student researcher perspective, consider how work inside of labs at your institution gets done. At this point, refrain from assigning blame or jumping directly into who should be responsible. Instead, just think about the situations that these early career people are walking into and what they are seeing.

● Are lab workers working around a mess that existed before them?

● Are they trying to find space in the lab for their own work by moving aside work that no longer belongs to anyone working in this lab?

● Are they trying to address inspection items that they know little about?

● Are they being required to engage with systems that don’t help them do their research better? For example, dysfunctional chemical inventory systems, poorly defined hazardous waste procedures, challenges with space.

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Email address: SkilledSafeAndTrailblazing@gmail.com

LinkedIn Community: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/skilled-safe-and-trailblazing

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The Lab Safety Institute (accessed 2026-02-04) https://www.labsafety.org/

Provan, D.J.; Woods, D.D.; Dekker, S.W.A.,Rae, A.J. (2020) Safety II professionals: How resilience engineering can transform safety practice https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0951832018309864

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Have you run drills with your experts? If you haven’t, what is stopping you from doing so?

Have you incorporated the concept of Guided Adaptability into how you approach safety in labs?

HOW TO LET US KNOW!

o Email address: skilledsafeandtrailblazing@gmail.com

o LinkedIn Community: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/skilled-safe-and-trailblazing

o Leave a comment on this episode!

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For more information about ACS Spring 2026, visit https://acs.digitellinc.com/live/36/page/1270

Organizers for the symposium featured in this episode:

• Becca Powers: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/becca-powers-2a99ba236/⁠
• Leah Kosovsky: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-kosovsky-954111194/⁠
• Devon Leimkuhl: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/devonleimkuhl/⁠
• James Sappington
• Kyra Tripp: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyra-tripp-932b031b5/⁠
• Amanda Chung: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-chung-phd-a83694235/
• Kendra Denlinger: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendra-denlinger-b06874b0/⁠

Select speakers for the symposium featured in this episode:

• Amanda Pitt: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandapitt520/⁠
• Penny Antoniou: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/panayiota-antoniou/⁠
• Dan Scungio: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-scungio-mls-ascp-sls-cqa-asq-chop-a7ba3a16/⁠
• Jason Nagy: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-nagy-ph-d-mls-ascp-qls-8991b071/⁠

Sponsoring Divisions for the symposium featured in this episode:

• ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety: https://dchas.org/
• ACS Division of Chemical Toxicology: https://www.acschemtox.org/

Sponsoring Committees for the symposium featured in this episode:

• ACS Committee on Chemical Safety: https://www.acs.org/about/governance/committees/chemical-safety.html
• ACS Committee on Corporation Associates: https://www.acs.org/about/governance/committees/corporation-associates.html

ElevenLabs was used to create the AI-generated voice Disclaimer at the end of this episode. For more information, visit https://elevenlabs.io/app/home