This free webinar will explore why researchers choose to publish safety-focused work, the benefits they've gained, and how peer-reviewed safety papers bring diverse perspectives to the table.
Safety permeates every aspect of chemistry—and every ACS journal—but it finds its home and preeminence in ACS Chemical Health & Safety (ACS CHAS). Since January 1, 2020, articles from ACS CHAS have been downloaded more than one million times, clear evidence that chemical safety information is in high demand across the global research community.
Authors from technical journals increasingly draw on ACS CHAS papers to add depth and credibility to their safety statements. For example, Nguyen et al. included the caution “Beryllium and its compounds are regarded as highly toxic and carcinogenic” in their Inorganic Chemistry paper, but cited the detailed ACS CHAS article Handling Beryllium, the Safe Way to guide best practices for hazard mitigation. Likewise, Safe Synthesis of MAX and MXene: Guidelines to Reduce Risk During Synthesis embodies the journal’s tagline—Influencing chemical safety, guiding tomorrow’s science. This publication moved beyond general advice to develop comprehensive safety protocols for precursor storage, material handling, synthesis, and delamination—an article now viewed more than 12,000 times and cited by over 200 researchers.
Not all safety papers are measured by citations alone. Many of ACS CHAS’s most practical and widely read articles—such as Practical Guidelines for the Safe Use of Fluorine Gas Employing Continuous Flow Technology (over 20,000 views), Safe Handling of Cannulas and Needles in Chemistry Laboratories (over 25,000 views), and A Safety Guidance Document for Lithium Aluminum Hydride (LAH) Reduction (over 13,000 views)—demonstrate how researchers actively seek out reliable, experience-based safety guidance. Their high readership shows that scientists are using these papers to guide decisions in their own research—illustrating that publishing safety knowledge is another way to extend one’s influence across the scientific enterprise.
Register now for our free ACS webinar
To learn more about safety in research, join ACS Chemical Health & Safety for a free, virtual webinar on Thursday, November 20 from 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET. Learn more and register here.
Join Mary Beth Mulcahy (Editor-in-Chief of ACS Chemical Health & Safety), Christopher Shuck of Rutgers University, and Alexander Miller of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as they explore why researchers choose to publish safety-focused work, the benefits they've gained, and how peer-reviewed safety papers bring diverse perspectives to the table. Register now to learn how you can contribute and benefit from publishing safety-focused articles.
Speakers:
- Mary Beth Mulcahy (Editor-in-Chief of ACS Chemical Health & Safety)
- Christopher Shuck (Rutgers University)
- Alexander Miller (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Attendees will learn:
- Why researchers choose to publish safety-focused work and the benefits they’ve experienced
- How to navigate the publication process and hear personal experiences publishing peer-reviewed safety papers
- How to define impactful safety papers and their technical content beyond standard Safety Data Sheet (SDS) documentation
The webinar will end with a moderated discussion and the opportunity for Q&A.
Read Impactful Research from ACS Chemical Health & Safety
Ahead of the webinar, be sure to check out this collection of impactful research from ACS Chemical Health & Safety.
- The Piper Alpha Disaster: A Personal Perspective with Transferrable Lessons on the Long-Term Moral Impact of Safety Failures
- A Safety Guidance Document for Lithium Aluminum Hydride (LAH) Reduction: A Resource for Developing Specific SOPs on LAH Manipulations†
- Safe Handling of Cannulas and Needles in Chemistry Laboratories
- Practical Guidelines for the Safe Use of Fluorine Gas Employing Continuous Flow Technology
- Lesson Learned from a Fire during Distillation: Choose the Appropriate Condenser
- Safe Synthesis of MAX and MXene: Guidelines to Reduce Risk During Synthesis
- Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Chemical Health and Safety: A Systematic Review of Techniques and Applications
- Toxicity, Hazards, and Safe Handling of Primary Aromatic Amines
- Handling Beryllium, the Safe Way
- A Review of the LD50 and Its Current Role in Hazard Communication
