EHS Safety Awareness presentations with Dr. James Kaufman, March 1-2
by Jamie Gonzales |
For students: Thursday, March 1, 7 p.m., Fine Arts Building, Room 117
For faculty: Friday, March 2, 8 a.m., ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building, Lecture Hall
Dr. James Kaufman, founder president and CEO of the Laboratory Safety Institute, an international, non-profit center for safety in science and science education, will be visiting UAA from Feb. 29-March 2. He will be assisting in improving our chemical hygiene program as well as increasing lab safety awareness. Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) would like to extend an open invitation to faculty and students for two of his presentations.
Presentation attendees will learn how to:
EHS is pleased to host Dr. Kaufman and we hope the students, staff, faculty, and public will take advantage of this opportunity to learn from a man at the forefront of his field.
For more information or to make reservations, please contact Lesley Lepley at (907) 786-1343 or lnlepley@uaa.alaska.edu.
About the guest speaker
Dr. Kaufman is a former professor of chemistry and EHS director at Curry College. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Tufts University and his doctorate in organic chemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
After two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the WPI Chemical Engineering Department converting garbage into fuel oil, Dr. Kaufman joined the Dow Chemical Company's New England Research Laboratory as a process research chemist. During his four years with Dow, he became increasingly involved in laboratory safety related activities. He authored "Laboratory Safety Guidelines." Originally distributed by Dow, now over two million copies of the widely requested and reprinted brochure are in circulation.
Dr. Kaufman is a former, 10-year member of the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Council Committee on Chemical Safety and is past-chairman of the 2,500-member ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety. He is the author-narrator of the ACS Audio Course on Laboratory Safety and editor of "Waste Disposal at Academic Institutions" from Lewis Publishers. He recorded and edited the "One-Day Laboratory Safety Audio Seminar" and "Two-Day Lab Safety Video Course." He is a co-author of "Safety Is Elementary: the new standard for safety in the elementary science classroom."
Most recently, Dr. Kaufman was appointed chair of the Safety in Science Education Committee of the International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE).
"EHS Safety Awareness presentations with Dr. James Kaufman, March 1-2" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
For faculty: Friday, March 2, 8 a.m., ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building, Lecture Hall
Dr. James Kaufman, founder president and CEO of the Laboratory Safety Institute, an international, non-profit center for safety in science and science education, will be visiting UAA from Feb. 29-March 2. He will be assisting in improving our chemical hygiene program as well as increasing lab safety awareness. Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) would like to extend an open invitation to faculty and students for two of his presentations.
Presentation attendees will learn how to:
- Avoid negligence lawsuits
- Protect yourself and students
- Plan for emergencies
- Create a more effective lab safety program
EHS is pleased to host Dr. Kaufman and we hope the students, staff, faculty, and public will take advantage of this opportunity to learn from a man at the forefront of his field.
For more information or to make reservations, please contact Lesley Lepley at (907) 786-1343 or lnlepley@uaa.alaska.edu.
About the guest speaker
Dr. Kaufman is a former professor of chemistry and EHS director at Curry College. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Tufts University and his doctorate in organic chemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
After two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the WPI Chemical Engineering Department converting garbage into fuel oil, Dr. Kaufman joined the Dow Chemical Company's New England Research Laboratory as a process research chemist. During his four years with Dow, he became increasingly involved in laboratory safety related activities. He authored "Laboratory Safety Guidelines." Originally distributed by Dow, now over two million copies of the widely requested and reprinted brochure are in circulation.
Dr. Kaufman is a former, 10-year member of the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Council Committee on Chemical Safety and is past-chairman of the 2,500-member ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety. He is the author-narrator of the ACS Audio Course on Laboratory Safety and editor of "Waste Disposal at Academic Institutions" from Lewis Publishers. He recorded and edited the "One-Day Laboratory Safety Audio Seminar" and "Two-Day Lab Safety Video Course." He is a co-author of "Safety Is Elementary: the new standard for safety in the elementary science classroom."
Most recently, Dr. Kaufman was appointed chair of the Safety in Science Education Committee of the International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE).
"EHS Safety Awareness presentations with Dr. James Kaufman, March 1-2" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.