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{"title":"Using AI to Improve Writing Creativity, Productivity, and Quality","authors":"Philip Vassallo*,&nbsp;","doi":"10.1021/acs.chas.4c0007010.1021/acs.chas.4c00070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00070https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00070","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Citing continuous improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) and growing endorsements for its use during every phase of the writing process, the author suggests practical techniques for using AI in writing at work for creative planning, productive drafting, and improved revising, editing, and proofreading.</p>","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"31 5","pages":"352–361 352–361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142276235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How Should Journals Address a Procedure That Turns out to Be Dangerous?","authors":"Orikeda Trashi,&nbsp;Neha Satish,&nbsp;Thien-Quang Nicholas Nguyen,&nbsp;Jeremiah J. Gassensmith* and Mary Beth Mulcahy*,&nbsp;","doi":"10.1021/acs.chas.4c0000510.1021/acs.chas.4c00005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00005https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00005","url":null,"abstract":"<p >This Commentary critically evaluates scientific journals’ responsibility in addressing safety concerns within chemical research publications. We highlight the risks associated with uncritically accepting initial safety claims in the chemical literature, especially when such claims are later retracted or corrected. Our analysis focuses on three specific cases where procedures initially deemed safe necessitated significant safety corrections, and we emphasize the inadequate response of the publishing community to these updates. It is important to note that safety corrections often remain less visible and less cited than the original flawed publications. We scrutinize the mechanisms publishers employ for marking safety-related corrections and retractions and find them inconsistent and insufficiently visible to alert researchers, particularly trainees and those with less experience. We propose more effective strategies to enhance the clarity and prominence of safety information, including mandatory peer-review by chemical safety specialists and prominent watermarking of papers with safety corrections. We also advocate for authors and reviewers to use a safety checklist that includes detailed hazard identification, clear storage and handling instructions, and justification of hazardous reagents. Our Commentary underscores the shared responsibility across the scientific ecosystem in maintaining safety standards, advocating for a proactive role by journal publishers in protecting researchers from hazardous procedures and compounds, thus prioritizing safety in the publication of chemical research.</p>","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"31 5","pages":"338–351 338–351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142276211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Upcycled PET–Ag-Nanocoated Silk Functional Fabric for Enhanced Filtration Efficiency and Germicidal Efficacy","authors":"Md. Tanvir Hossain,&nbsp;Md. Abdus Shahid* and Md. Golam Mortuza Limon,&nbsp;","doi":"10.1021/acs.chas.4c0003510.1021/acs.chas.4c00035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00035https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00035","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Air pollution is a rising global concern with detrimental effects on public health and the environment. The widespread proliferation of PET bottles has reached alarming levels, underscoring the urgent need to recycle PET bottle waste. Due to the very limited work being conducted on silk fabric and PET bottles, this approach addresses the pressing issue of air pollution and offers the dual benefit of reducing waste and conserving valuable resources. In this study, postconsumer PET bottles were upcycled to fabricate nanocoated silk functional fabrics incorporated with green-synthesized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) by an electrospinning technique. The morphology of the functional fabric was observed using SEM, revealing the formation of regular nanofibers with the diameter ranging from 204.6 to 228.7 nm. The silk fabric with PET–Ag nanocoating on both sides (SPA) and the silk fabric with PET nanocoating on one side (SP) both had outstanding particle filtration efficiency (PFE) values of 97.8 and 96.4%, respectively. Differential pressure (DP) testing, conducted following the EN14683 standard, revealed pressure drops of 28.7 Pa for SP and 29.4 Pa for SPA, which are under the accepted limit. Furthermore, the mechanical properties of the developed sample were evaluated using a universal strength tester, revealing a maximum force of 157.47 N and a tensile strength of 57.26 MPa for SPA, indicating its excellent mechanical characteristics. The antibacterial properties of SPA samples were evaluated through agar disc diffusion experiments against <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> and <i>Escherichia coli</i> bacteria. The zone of inhibition (ZOI) measured against these bacteria was 15.3 ± 1 and 12 ± 1 mm, respectively, demonstrating the antibacterial functionality of the functional fabric. The FTIR spectra confirmed the presence of constituent components of the developed sample. All these results highlight the promising potential of the developed nanocoated silk functional fabric as a next-generation air filter.</p>","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"31 5","pages":"404–413 404–413"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142276255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reflections in Chemical Safety and Research: Doing Science Against All Odds in the Philippines","authors":"Imee Su Martinez*,&nbsp;","doi":"10.1021/acs.chas.4c0004910.1021/acs.chas.4c00049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00049https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"31 4","pages":"270–271 270–271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141957987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Potential Penetration of Engineered Nanoparticles under Practical Use of Protective Clothing Fabrics","authors":"Natalie Ireland,&nbsp;Yi-Hsuan Chen and Candace Su-Jung Tsai*,&nbsp;","doi":"10.1021/acs.chas.4c0002110.1021/acs.chas.4c00021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00021https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00021","url":null,"abstract":"<p >The commercial application of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) has rapidly increased as their unique properties are useful to improve many products. ENPs, however, can pose a major health risk to workers through exposure routes such as inhalation and dermal contact. Research is lacking on the protective nature of lab coats when challenged with ENPs. This study investigated multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs), carbon black (CB), and nano aluminum oxide (Al₂O₃) penetration through four types of lab coat fabrics (cotton, polypropylene, polyester cotton, and Tyvek). Penetration efficiency was determined with direct reading instruments. The front and back of contaminated fabric swatches were further assessed with microscopy analysis to determine fabric structure with contaminated and penetrated particle morphology and level of fabric contamination. Fabric thickness, porosity, structure, surface chemistry, and ENP characteristics such as shape, morphology, and hydrophobicity were assessed to determine the mechanisms behind particle capture on the four common fabrics. CNTs penetrated all fabrics significantly less than the other ENPs. CNT average penetration across all fabrics was 1.83% compared to 15.74 and 11.65% for CB and Al₂O₃, respectively. This can be attributed to their fiber shape and larger agglomerates than those of other ENPs. Tyvek fabric was found to be the most protective against CB and Al₂O₃ penetration, with an average penetration of 0.06 and 0.11%, respectively, while polypropylene was the least protective with an average penetration of 40.36 and 15.77%, respectively. Tyvek was the most nonporous fabric with a porosity of 0.50, as well as the most hydrophobic fabric, explaining the low penetration across all three ENPs. Polypropylene is the most porous fabric with a porosity of 0.77, making it the least protective against ENPs. We conclude that porosity, fabric structure, and thickness are more important fabric characteristics to consider when discussing particle penetration through protective clothing fabrics than surface chemistry.</p>","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"31 5","pages":"393–403 393–403"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142276272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Case Study in Assessing a Potential Severity Framework for Incidents from a Decadal Sample","authors":"Raul B. Lara*,&nbsp;Juliana H. Halbach,&nbsp;Steve Nakasaki and Sam Y. Paik,&nbsp;","doi":"10.1021/acs.chas.4c0002610.1021/acs.chas.4c00026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00026https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00026","url":null,"abstract":"<p >The primary objective of this case study is to determine the applicability and feasibility of a framework that leverages occupational incident details to prospectively identify “potential Serious Injury or Fatality” (pSIF) cases. This study comprehensively reviewed a random sample of 1,081 injury and illness cases across 21 generalized incident types spanning over a decade at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a U.S. Department of Energy research and development facility with more than 9,000 employees. The review applied a general framework that classified each case on information suitability, potential severity, and future incident mitigation. The findings from the study indicate that 86.6% of the cases had sufficient information to make a high-confidence determination on potential severity, underscoring the feasibility of applying this general framework. Additionally, cases with a higher pSIF score had, on average, a higher level of institutional response. Implementing a simplified methodology for incident classification that emphasizes incidents that pose high potential severity, regardless of incident type, can help LLNL prioritize resources and tailor responses to such incidents using a graded approach. LLNL has recognized the value of this capability and is integrating the framework into their injury and illness process in the 2024 calendar year.</p>","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"31 5","pages":"370–377 370–377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142276269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reconstruction of Curriculum System for Chemical Safety Undergraduate Education under Emerging Engineering Education Requirements","authors":"Jianwen Zhang,&nbsp;Siyu Peng,&nbsp;Pengchao Wang,&nbsp;Feilong Zhang,&nbsp;Qianlin Wang and Zhan Dou*,&nbsp;","doi":"10.1021/acs.chas.4c0001710.1021/acs.chas.4c00017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00017https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00017","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Against the backdrop of the latest engineering and technical disciplines, cross-disciplinary fusion is a new strategy to cultivate high-level composite talents in the chemical safety field. Regulating China’s severe safety production situation is crucial. As an essential source of talent, universities should promptly reconstruct the discipline system according to the new framework under the guiding spirit of Emerging Engineering Education. The innovation and application of intelligent technology have led to a technological revolution in chemistry fields. Therefore, universities should reasonably adjust and optimize the knowledge structure to address the social situations and the development needs of the industry for ensuring the safety of the entire chemical production process. This paper investigates the chemical industry safety production to innovatively present the fresh concept of “5 flows, 3 tactics, and 3 controls,” with “5 flows” as the core, “3 tactics” as the focus, and “3 controls” as the goal. This concept serves as a significant reference for the reformation of the safety curriculum system.</p>","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"31 5","pages":"378–392 378–392"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142276365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Community Connections Committee: How the Joint Safety Team of the University of Minnesota Innovates Promoting Vertical Safety Engagement","authors":"Vilma S. M. Brandao*,&nbsp;Gretchen S. Burke,&nbsp;Zoe A. Maxwell,&nbsp;Steven K. Butler,&nbsp;Xin I. N. Dong,&nbsp;Jeffrey Paz Buenaflor,&nbsp;Mckenna G. Hanson,&nbsp;Taysir K. Bader,&nbsp;Celina M. Harris,&nbsp;Harrison Frisk,&nbsp;Brian Andersson and Brady L. Bresnahan,&nbsp;","doi":"10.1021/acs.chas.4c0002710.1021/acs.chas.4c00027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00027https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00027","url":null,"abstract":"<p >The Joint Safety Team (JST) of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities is a well-established researcher-led safety team that recently developed a new Community Connections Committee (CCC) to build on its history of collaboration with other student-led Lab Safety Teams (LSTs) around the country. The CCC aims to engage with the larger scientific community by connecting with high school science instructors, early stage researchers at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs), and local chemical industries. As part of its early work, the CCC developed a safety workshop for high school chemistry teachers to help them identify and address common safety issues. Participants are introduced to fundamental safety concepts and new tools to understand and address safety concerns through classroom lectures and hands-on laboratories, all aimed at improving safety in their classrooms. Through an ongoing exchange of experiences and resources with PUIs, the CCC helped undergraduate students and faculty create an independent and resourceful student safety team that has engaged students in safety accountability, fostered leadership, and influenced safety practices at the PUI. Finally, this work discusses the collaboration between the CCC and industry partners that focuses on informing University of Minnesota graduate students of the safety standards of the industry so that they can best prepare themselves to be desirable hires and therefore benefit industries. Overall, the CCC is a powerful tool to expand the JST’s positive impacts to the broader chemistry community, helping pass on the JST’s safety practices to PUIs and high schools while also learning of industrial safety standards.</p>","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"31 4","pages":"324–333 324–333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141956107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Gist of the List","authors":"Lauren Goulding*,&nbsp;","doi":"10.1021/acs.chas.4c0005310.1021/acs.chas.4c00053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00053https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"31 4","pages":"272–273 272–273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141956103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spotlights: Untargeted Forensic Drug Detection, Burn Pit Smoke Inhalation, and Problems in the Friction Sensitivity Literature","authors":"Lauren Goulding*,&nbsp;","doi":"10.1021/acs.chas.4c0005210.1021/acs.chas.4c00052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00052https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.4c00052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"31 4","pages":"274–275 274–275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141956104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}