1. The Plan for the Day

2. Starting Thought Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer used to shape it Bertholt Brecht

3. Information Management Take- Aways The good news: Chemical safety information is becoming structured in more useful ways for computer handling. There are already web-based services that do most of what we need on the computer side.

4. A Summary Chart

5. Today’s Agenda 1. Martin Walker on Learn Chemistry and the Wikipedia Chemboxes platforms 2. Debbie Decker demo of UC’s LHAT 3. Discuss Opportunities and Threats 4. Identify Next Steps

6. Resources available Smart people Cash on hand: about $10,000 Industrial interest Meeting opportunities: ACS national meetings?, regional meetings Mediawiki / CHAS blog

7. Strategic Priorities to Balance Option 1Option 2 Core audience is lab peopleCore audience is oversight RoomsPeople Operating guidanceOversight hooks Operational toolChemist education Control bandingHAZOP Process orientationChemical orientation Lessons LearnedPlanned Platform orientationAdministrative considearions

8. Opportunities 1. Provides a training /educational tool to support lab safety skill acquisition 2. Incorporation into lab electronic data flow 3. External interest in academic lab safety 4. Upcoming National Academy of Sciences report on Lab Safety Culture 5. Change the planning process to include hazard awareness and assessment 6. Include Green Chemistry 7. Support culture shifts 8. New data paradigms (GHS, RAMP) 9. Learning organization 10. Better safety conditions 11. Multimedia availability and new communication methods

9. Threats 1. Culture change is slow 2. Pencil whipping / pop up fatigue 3. Intellectual Property Concerns 4. Competing IT priorities 5. Liability Concerns 6. Funding 7. External Deadlines 8. Community awareness of the tool 9. Explosion of data and information in general requires curations and validation 10. Jargon and regulatory language relative to user education

10. Prioritize top 5 Strengths and Opportunities 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

11. Prioritize top 5 Weaknesses and Threats 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

12. Activity ideas Develop a administrative platform Develop a content platform Conduct risk assessment workshops at regional ACS meetings, ChemEd meetings Work with government agencies for a more robustly supported system (NLM, NIH, NIOSH)

13. Next Steps Produce a report focused on ideas discussed and key points made Understand industrial interest in, and resources available for, a public domain platform Consider developing a proposal for further efforts

14. Call for Volunteers We need expert help with: ◦ Controlled vocabularies  chemical & physical process (operations, conditions)  PPE & engineering controls (parameters, triggers) ◦ Logic/rubrics for these processes  (ventilation 'housekeeping') ◦ Advocacy for access and computer use of authoritative sources  Brethericks  orgysn.org orgysn.org ◦ Connect to Bob Belford Connect to Bob Belford

15. Issues to keep in mind Skills acquisition and assessment Usable references Lab safety certificate

16. Afternoon Issues Process ontology review Parsing examples Seeding vs. User Interface design: leaning towards starting with the chicken Template development

17. Next Steps Rob and Ralph will check in with Bob Belford about recent parsing developments Leah and Ralph with connection with BMS around the opportunities for open data intetfaces Leah, Ralph and Debbie will check in with UCalifornia IT development Set up a mediawiki test site for define screens Implement seeding process in class settings Implement seeding process in training settings.