During COVID-19, we are all discovering how to work and live in a new normal. For me this means ensuring I have facemasks for my family in both of our cars at all times and working from a home office while I listen to my husband homeschool our child in the living room. For others, it is strategizing how to keep a small business alive or living with the loss of a loved one. I look forward to talking about COVID-19 in the past, but in the meantime, I find myself juggling work, family, and the ACS Chemical Health & Safety journal from my home. Late in August, I was talking to a colleague on the phone in my office when two distraught ten-year-olds ran in to tell me that the recently purchased Pokémon card that had arrived in the mail that day was a fraud. One of the ten-year-olds was my son; the other was a friend we have teamed up with to homeschool our children this year. I calmly asked them to wait until I was done with my call and I would address the issue. They managed to stay out of the office for almost 4 min before they came back in, begging me to examine the suspect card. This situation presented what my husband refers to as the opportunities of COVID. I told my colleague that I would call her back after I addressed the dire situation in my home. Like many of you, COVID-19 has changed the way I work, where I wear three different hats. First, I work with an interdisciplinary team at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) to engage global partners to identify and integrate solutions that improve chemical safety and security in a variety of settings, including universities and small-to-medium businesses handling chemicals. Second, I work with SNL’s Environmental Safety and Health (ES&H) group performing causal analyses of safety incidents and near-misses. Finally, I work on the journal. Normally, I travel internationally to meet our global partners, but we are learning to adapt to Zoom meetings and interact with people though a computer screen. It is not my favorite way to meaningfully engage with people, but we are getting better at it. The COVID opportunity in this instance is that my entire team is grounded in Albuquerque whereas normally, you can hardly find us in the same time zone. With none of us traveling, we have been able to create, debate, and refine training materials and ideas as a group. It is an unexpected opportunity. My ES&H work is a little different. Causal analysis meetings occur over the phone, and the nature of our work at Sandia means we cannot always share photographs of a facility. This is not a problem when it is a process that mirrors one from my professional background, but other times I feel like I am asking, “is it bigger than a breadbox?” The challenges of not being able to actually walk around a site in person or draw on a whiteboard together have led me to seek out new software tools. I was using one recently while trying to document a timeline of events. Because I had preloaded dates and steps into the software, I started to guide people through the steps linearly in a more purposeful manner than I have tried previously. The COVID opportunity gave me new insight into how people think about incidents. Ultimately, they want a timeline, but initially they do not process the information linearly. Individuals watching the computer screen saw me zip back and forth on the timeline while trying to capture the group’s thoughts. This approach gave me the freedom to cede control and let the conversation flow. As the facilitator and the one who would be responsible to write the analysis for the group, I felt more at ease letting people jump around because I knew the blank spots on the timeline would bring us back to all the facts. I liked the approach enough that I think even when I return to a nonremote work environment, I will continue to use it. The opportunities of COVID related to the journal show up as additional time to engage personally with both current and potential authors and reviewers. I am continually amazed by the diversity of the content that comes across my desk, and just as life feels like a hodge podge—perhaps even more so now in these COVID-19 times—I am struck that chemical safety is a hodge podge too. For example, take a look at some of the topics covered in this issue of the journal: an explosion during a synthesis reaction,(1) N95 masks saturated with artificial respiration,(2) decontamination of a chemical weapon nerve agent,(3) and chemical risk management policy.(4) To all the authors who have taken the time to further refine a paper after a conversation, and to the reviewers who have clearly spent a considerable amount reading a paper, thank you. To our audience, as you juggle life, I hope you can also find time to read a chemical safety article that expands your view of the field. Back to Pokémon. After I ended the call, I examined the card and had to agree with the kids it did not feel real. We went back to the site where the purchase was made, and the seller from Etsy was very clear that the card was “fan art” and not an original Pokémon card. That led to conversations about reading the details and what “too good to be true” means. My son then decided to take a chunk of his meager life savings and invest it in an authentic Rare Legendary Pokémon Shiny Collectible Trainer card at a local shop. As we walked that evening, he told me he would like to buy a proxy card that he can use in his deck to play with so that the valuable card could remain protected. I was surprised to hear him use “proxy” and asked him where he learned the word. He replied, “From Etsy. Did I use the word correctly?” Yes he did, and this time I was home to live the moment. The opportunities of COVID. Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS. This article references 4 other publications. This article has not yet been cited by other publications. This article references 4 other publications.

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COVID的机会

在COVID-19期间，我们都发现了如何工作和生活在新的常态中。对我来说，这意味着要确保我的两辆车上的家人始终戴着口罩，并在家庭办公室工作时听丈夫在家上学的孩子在客厅里的工作。对于其他公司，它正在制定战略，以决定如何维持一家小型企业的生存或失去亲人的生活。我很希望在过去谈论COVID-19，但与此同时，我发现自己在忙于工作，家庭和ACS化学健康与安全部我家的日记。8月下旬，我正与我办公室的一位同事通电话，当时两个心烦意乱的10岁小伙子跑进来告诉我，那天刚从邮件中收到的最近购买的神奇宝贝卡是欺诈。我儿子十岁之一。另一个是我们今年合作的朋友，他们让我们的孩子在家上学。我冷静地要求他们等到我的电话结束后再解决。他们回来之前设法设法离开办公室近4分钟，恳求我检查可疑卡片。这种情况介绍了我丈夫所说的COVID的机会。我告诉我的同事，我在处理完家里的严峻形势后会给她回电话。像你们中的许多人一样，COVID-19改变了我的工作方式，我戴着三顶不同的帽子。首先，我与桑迪亚国家实验室（SNL）的跨学科团队合作，邀请全球合作伙伴确定和集成解决方案，以改善各种环境中的化学品安全性，包括大学和处理化学品的中小型企业。其次，我与SNL的环境安全与健康（ES＆H）小组合作，对安全事件和未遂事件进行因果分析。最后，我从事日记工作。通常，我会出国旅行与我们的全球合作伙伴见面，但是我们正在学习适应Zoom会议并通过计算机屏幕与人们互动。这不是我与人进行有意义的互动的最喜欢的方法，但是我们正在做得更好。的COVID机会在这种情况下，我的整个团队都驻扎在阿尔伯克基，而通常情况下，您很难在同一时区找到我们。在没有人旅行的情况下，我们已经能够创建，辩论和完善培训材料和想法。这是一个意想不到的机会。我的ES＆H工作有所不同。因果分析会议通过电话进行，而我们在桑迪亚（Sandia）的工作性质意味着我们无法始终共享设施的照片。当这是一个与我的专业背景相仿的过程时，这不是问题，但是其他时候我觉得我在问：“它比面包盒还大吗？” 无法亲自亲自到现场走动或一起在白板上画画的挑战促使我寻找新的软件工具。我最近在尝试记录事件的时间表时使用了一个。因为我已经将日期和步骤预加载到了软件中，所以我开始以比以前尝试的更有针对性的方式来指导人们线性地执行步骤。的COVID机会使我对人们如何看待事件有了新的见解。最终，他们想要一个时间轴，但是最初他们并没有线性地处理信息。看着电脑屏幕的人看到我在时间轴上来回滑动，试图捕捉他们的想法。这种方法给了我让步的自由，让对话畅通无阻。作为主持人和负责为小组撰写分析报告的人，我感到轻松多了，让人们四处走走，因为我知道时间轴上的空白将使我们回到所有事实。我非常喜欢这种方法，以至于即使回到非远程工作环境，我也会继续使用它。COVID的机会与该期刊相关的内容会显示为额外的时间来与当前和潜在的作者和审稿人进行私人接触。我一直被桌子上内容的多样性所惊叹，就像生活就像一个杂物箱一样，在现在的COVID-19时代甚至更是如此，我也感到惊讶，化学安全性也是杂物箱。例如，看一下本期杂志涵盖的一些主题：合成反应期间的爆炸，（1）人工呼吸饱和的N95口罩，（2）化学武器神经毒剂的去污，（3）和化学风险管理政策。（4）对于所有花时间在对话后进一步完善论文的作者，以及显然花费大量阅读论文的审稿人，谢谢您。对我们的听众来说，当您杂耍生活时，我希望您也可以花时间阅读化学安全性文章，以扩展您对该领域的看法。回到神奇宝贝。结束通话后，我检查了这张卡，不得不同意那些感觉不真实的孩子。我们回到了购买地点，Etsy的卖家非常清楚该卡是“粉丝艺术”，而不是原始的神奇宝贝卡。这就引发了关于阅读细节以及“太好了不能成为现实”的讨论。然后，我儿子决定将自己微薄的生活积蓄中的一部分用于在当地商店购买的正宗稀有传奇神奇宝贝神奇闪亮收藏教练卡。那天晚上我们走路时，他告诉我他想买一张代理卡，可以在甲板上玩耍，以使有价值的卡得到保护。听到他使用“代理”感到惊讶，问他从哪里学到这个词。他回答说：“来自Etsy。我使用的单词正确吗？” 是的，他做到了，这次我是在家度过这一刻。COVID的机会。本社论中表达的观点只是作者的观点，不一定是ACS的观点。本文引用了其他4个出版物。本文尚未被其他出版物引用。本文引用了其他4个出版物。