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540.490 Chemical & Laboratory Safety: Course Description

This document outlines the syllabus for a 1 credit hour course on Chemical and Laboratory Safety. The course provides sophomore chemical and biomolecular engineering students with an introduction to laboratory safety concepts, including chemical, biological, and physical hazards. Over 14 weeks, students will learn about hazards and models for hazard control, safety ethics, laboratory emergencies, hazard identification, risk assessment, laboratory inspections, system safety, inherent safety, and process safety. The course involves weekly homework, in-class exercises, and multi-week case studies where students work in small groups to analyze hypothetical safety scenarios. Students will be graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

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540.490 Chemical & Laboratory Safety: Course Description

This document outlines the syllabus for a 1 credit hour course on Chemical and Laboratory Safety. The course provides sophomore chemical and biomolecular engineering students with an introduction to laboratory safety concepts, including chemical, biological, and physical hazards. Over 14 weeks, students will learn about hazards and models for hazard control, safety ethics, laboratory emergencies, hazard identification, risk assessment, laboratory inspections, system safety, inherent safety, and process safety. The course involves weekly homework, in-class exercises, and multi-week case studies where students work in small groups to analyze hypothetical safety scenarios. Students will be graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

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540.

490 Chemical & Laboratory Safety


Syllabus

Course description

This course provides an introduction to laboratory safety concepts, including chemical, biological, and physical hazards, for sophomore Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering students. Students will acquire a level of safety knowledge appropriate to enter laboratories in the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering department, to ask intelligent questions about laboratory safety, and to understand further training in laboratory-specific hazards. Training in the ethical dimension of safety is included.

Academic credits
1 credit hour, lecture

Instructor
Dr. Daniel R. Kuespert Homewood Laboratory Safety Advocate 410-516-5525 Wyman G-42 dkuespert@jhu.edu

Class format

1.25 hr/wk, 14 weeks. Typically, only a portion of the class period will be talking- head lecture; the remainder will be class exercises.

Grading policies
This course is graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. A Satisfactory grade will be awarded to students who satisfactorily complete all required assignments and pass the course final. Note that if you do not come to class, you may miss a required assignment, as some of them may be completed in class.

Homework
Homework is generally assigned each week and may comprise any combination of readings, online training courses, case study reports, and online quizzes. If you

neglect to do the homework, you will be unprepared for the class exercises (and may not understand the lecture!).

About case studies


The case studies work through progressively more complex application of the safety concepts and information discussed in the lectures and the homework assignments. The case studies are, to some extent, simulations of safety analyses in which a chemical engineer might actually participate in the real world. At a key point in each case study, we will have an in-class work session in which you will apply the days material to your case. While attendance at these is optional, it is highly recommended, as I will be immediately available to answer questions and provide guidance on how to complete the case study. I will assign small (5-7 person) groups to work together as co-workers; these groups will remain together through the semester. The case studies will span several weeks and will involve outside group meetings. At the conclusion of the case study, each group will submit a summary (read: short) report to the management of their imaginary company (which you will get to name, provided the name is couth). Each group will also appoint a spokesperson to brief the remainder of the class on the key points of their analysis and conclusions.

Course schedule by week


1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

Course introduction; hazards and models for hazard control Safety and ethics; class exercise: ethics role-play Lab emergencies: class exercise: TBD Case study 1 introduction; hazard checklists; hazard communication; class exercise: finding Safety Data Sheets Lab hazards: overview & intro to toxicology; class exercise: Case Study 1 work session on hazard identification Risk assessment; class exercise: calibrating your estimates of risk; Case Study 1 work session on risk assessment Case Study 1 group reports and presentations Case Study 2 introduction; laboratory inspections; Case Study 2 group laboratory inspection tours System safety in the lab; Inherent Safety; scaleup hazards Case Study 3 introduction; Case Study 3 work session on hazard identification Hazard analysis: Job Hazard Analysis, the What-If?/Checklist method; Case Study 3 work session on hazard analysis Case Study 3 group reports and presentations Introduction to process safety; Case Study 4 introduction Case Study 4 group reports and presentations

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