Identifying the Scope of Safety Issues and Challenges to Safety Management in Swedish Middle School and High School Chemistry Education,Journal of Chemical Education

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Identifying the Scope of Safety Issues and Challenges to Safety Management in Swedish Middle School and High School Chemistry Education
Journal of Chemical Education ( IF 2.5 ) Pub Date : 2018-06-11 00:00:00 , DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00054
Linda Schenk ₁ , Ivan A. Taher ₁ , Mattias Öberg ₁

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Chemical safety management is an iterative process where reviews of safety deficiencies (e.g., inspection notes) and failures (e.g., injuries) guide improvement efforts. The present work investigates safety in the school chemistry laboratory through two substudies. First, we interviewed 10 Swedish middle and high school chemistry teachers about how they work with safety and accident prevention in the chemistry laboratory. Second, we analyzed the call records of the Swedish Poisons Information Centre (PIC) concerning 10–19 olds and reports regarding severe injuries and accidents submitted to the Swedish Work Environment Authority (SWEA). The interviewed teachers encounter problems with chemical safety related to deficiencies in organizational support, such as lack of time and resources for preventive risk management and assignment to groups that are too large. The major safety challenge was reported to lie in students’ safety behavior. Although facilities were generally well-equipped we noted outdated safety data sheets and missing written risk assessments. For 2010–2014, the PIC records identified 637 cases of chemical exposures at schools; of these, 243 (38%) concerned laboratory chemicals at school. The PIC experts on call judged 70% of the cases involving laboratory chemicals to pose a risk to the exposed students, mainly due to acids and alkali. Inhalation was the most frequent exposure route, although skin and eyes were almost equally frequent. Strikingly, PIC data identified 10 times as many cases as the SWEA injury/incident data. Hence, PIC data can provide knowledge about chemical safety incidents at schools not otherwise available.

中文翻译：

确定瑞典中学和高中化学教育中安全问题的范围和安全管理面临的挑战

化学品安全管理是一个反复的过程，在此过程中，对安全缺陷（例如，检查说明）和故障（例如，伤害）的审查将指导改进工作。本工作通过两个子研究调查学校化学实验室的安全性。首先，我们采访了10名瑞典中学和中学化学老师，介绍了他们在化学实验室中如何进行安全和事故预防。其次，我们分析了瑞典毒物信息中心（PIC）的10至19岁儿童的通话记录，并向瑞典工作环境局（SWEA）报告了有关重伤和事故的报告。受访教师在化学品安全方面遇到了与组织支持不足有关的问题，例如缺乏时间和资源来进行预防性风险管理以及分配给太大的组。据报道，主要的安全挑战在于学生的安全行为。尽管设施通常设备齐全，但我们注意到过时的安全数据表和缺少书面风险评估。在2010-2014年，事先知情同意记录确定了637例学校的化学暴露案例；其中，243（38％）与学校的实验室化学物质有关。PIC的待命专家判断，有70％的涉及实验室化学品的案例对暴露的学生构成了风险，主要是由于酸和碱造成的。吸入是最频繁的接触途径，尽管皮肤和眼睛几乎同样频繁。令人惊讶的是，PIC数据确定的病例数是SWEA伤害/事故数据的10倍。因此，

更新日期：2018-06-11

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