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Laboratory safety symposium coming to UC
Educators K-12 welcome to free, 3-day conference
The University of Cincinnati’s College of Arts and Sciences is partnering with the Lab Safety Institute to offer the Safer Science Summit July 22-26.
The three-day summit will of educators and administrators K-12 an opportunity to keep up with the latest on chemical management, laboratory safety, regulatory compliance, hazard identification, legal aspects of safety and much more.
Chemistry professor and A&S dean James Mack says the partnership and summit are designed to offer educators instruction about keeping students safe while they perform experiments.
“Safety is always first,” Mack says. “We want to make sure our K-12 teachers have the equipment they need to be safe. People can get cut, or lose their sight, and spills can happen, especially when you’re dealing with chemicals.”
The Laboratory Safety Institute, a nonprofit educational institute, has been providing safety courses and consulting for chemical labs worldwide for the last 40 years. Its courses have been taught to more than 100,000 people in 30 countries, across industries from high-tech to government, and academia to medicine.
The event is free, and educators who enroll can receive continuing education credits.
Featured image at top: UC's Oesper Collections history museum features a reproduction chemistry lab from the 1900s.Photo/Jay Yocis/UC
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