Collection

2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Tammy Lutz-Rechtin

with students about the scale limitin an SOP (Kemsley 2010). Tragically students have died due to the lack of accountability andenforcement such as Sheri Sanji’s death at UCLA in 2008 (Kemsley 2019) and after a student’scomplaints were ignored at Beijing University in 2018 (Feng 2018). In response to theseincidences, a number of organizations including the American Chemical Society (ACS) and theAmerican Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE) have addressed their concerns by creatingprograms directed at initiating and propagating cultures of safety as well as safety education(National Research Council 2014) (APLU Council on Research Task Force on Laboratory Safety2016) (Davidson 2018) (ACS nd a) (Center for Chemical Process Safety nd). However