Safety – Page 4
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News
More tumult at America’s chemical safety agency
The final act of US Chemical Safety Board’s departing chairwoman was to fire its managing director, who’d been on paid leave for three years
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Hobby chemists fall foul of YouTube's content purge
Platform’s removal of home experiments and synthesis tutorial videos worries hobby chemists
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Opinion
Health and safety gets mad
Lab horror stories are fine – as long as we remember why we tell them
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Chemical plants urged to revise emergency plans
US chemical safety agency says the Arkema disaster caused by hurricane Harvey should serve as a warning to other companies
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New guidelines to standardise toxicity testing for nanomaterials
OECD hopes methods will ensure companies are singing from same song sheet on nanosafety
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Podcast
Phosphorus chlorides
A hugely useful group of compounds that have a distinct dual personality
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Opinion
Safety lessons from Hurricane Harvey
The chemical fires triggered by extreme flooding in Houston demonstrate the need to improve risk management
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Podcast
tert-Butyl lithium or t-BuLi
A pyrophoric reagent that remains one of chemistry’s staples and the liquid salts that can tame its wild reactivity
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Research
Flat phosphorus flagged as potentially toxic
Material with promising biomedical applications damages cell membranes and generates reactive radicals
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News
What’s happening at the Arkema chemical plant
Why chemicals at the plant devastated by hurricane Harvey have ignited
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Podcast
Chlorine trifluoride
Tabitha Watson introduces a poisonous, corrosive and extremely reactive compound that will start ‘roaring reactions’ with almost anything
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News
Chemical safety head ‘cautiously optimistic’ her agency will be saved
Chair of the US Chemical Safety Board is hopeful that Congress will stop Trump from dropping it
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Opinion
Analysis in the palm of your hand
Wearable chemical sensors could revolutionise lab safety, telemedicine and health monitoring
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News
Why asbestos is still used around the world
Unpicking the politics of a potentially deadly material
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Business
GE accused of exposing workers to toxic chemicals
Canadian union says dangerous compounds were used without proper worker protection
