As a former member of CCS, I remember that several years ago there was some item we were trying to disseminate fairly widely in the high school sector and it was suggested that we contact the science coordinator/specialist/other title at all of the state Departments of Education.  There is some sort of communication network between these individuals.  Perhaps Marta might be able to obtain the master list.

 

 

Wayne Wolsey

Professor Emeritus

Macalester College

St. Paul, MN

wolsey**At_Symbol_Here**macalester.edu

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:59 PM, NEAL LANGERMAN <neal**At_Symbol_Here**chemical-safety.com> wrote:

This is a healthy discussion and I hope that the bottom line is that ACS working with others - NTSA? - develop a method to try to reduce this mayhem.  Cost to the individual is not an issue.

 

I urge all of you with experience in science education to work to achieve this objective.

I am sure that a Task Force can be assembled under either CCS or CHAS to direct this.

 

Thank you all for continuing this discussion and I look forward to the progress

 

Nea;

 

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From: LMSTROUD**At_Symbol_Here**aol.com

Re; My efforts in NC

 

I  am a former high school chemistry teacher. Upon retirement, I retrained in safety and now I specialize in providing safety seminars for K-12 schools. In the summer, I have a 3 1/2 day science safety seminar that is for training chemical hygiene officers for K-12 schools.

 

Sunday, I was preparing my presentation for a private school very near Beacon School; I ran across a slide that had the date of the Calais Weber incident along with the formula for methanol on a white board. I talked to a news reporter from Ohio the day after the incident for about an hr. Yes, I have talked about this incident in every seminar I have given since it happened.

 

Today, I have reached out to the NC Dept of Instruction-Science Section, NCSTA, and other science education leaders to try to set up statewide safety sessions as a result of this reoccurring incident. This would be cost free to teachers and perhaps as many as 6 regional presentations to get more teachers to come. We will see what happens. Additionally, I will be emailing all school superintendents, every LEA contact, every attendee that I have taught in my Summer Science Safety Seminars since 2004 informing them of this latest among many methanol incidents.

 

Linda