ACS Webinar - Zebras or Horses? How a False Sense of Security Can Lead to Lab Accidents

When you hear hoofbeats, do you think zebras or horses? Mary Beth Mulcahy of ACS Chemical Health & Safety and Sandia National Laboratories has spent her career looking at the chemical safety equivalents of horses, which create a false sense of security, and zebras, which get a lot of attention but can make people believe lab incidents are too rare to happen to them. During this free broadcast, discover how both “zebras” and “horses” skew our perception of safety in the lab and how this perspective has shaped Dr. Mulcahy's vision for one of the American Chemical Society’s newest journals.

What You Will Learn:

• How to recognize the multiple contributing factors that lead to a laboratory accident 
• How a laboratory accident can impact a chemist’s career 
• What are ACS Chemical Health & Safety journal’s expectations for incident reports