About Safety Tips

Editor
Tim Champion
Department of Chemistry & Physics
Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC 28216
Phone: 704/378-1155; FAX: 704/378-1213
Email: tchampio@uncc.edu

The purpose of the Safety Tips column is to improve the "safeness" of chemical instruction at all levels. Safeness includes awareness of, avoidance of, and appropriate responses to all health hazards encountered in the process of chemical education. To this end, this column will include articles concerning:

• health hazards (chemical, physical, electrical)especially newly recognized hazards in common instructional practices
  
• safety education for faculty and students
  
• reviews of safety for beginning teachers
  
• suggestions for helpful practices to improve safety (warning methods, documentation methods, inventory and waste management methods, modifications to improve the safeness of common procedures)
  
• new regulations related to safety