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Initiatives

Committee Goals for Spring 2025CSSC Logo

Last updated: May 2025

  • Building an active collaboration with HSE
    • Developing a new emergency and non-emergency response flowchart
    • Assisting with preparations for maintenance work throughout NCB and Remsen
    • Providing feedback for pilot hazardous waste disposal procedures
  • Collaborating with other department committees
    • Hosting and co-hosting department wide events, such as Ask-Me-Anythings
    • Expanding our reach to graduate and undergraduate committees
  • Raise awareness about updated incident and near miss reporting options
    • CSSC’s anonymous reporting option
    • New emergency and non-emergency response flowchart
    • Promote EZ Request for facilities issues
  • Updating committee materials to increase engagement
    • Taking new group photo
    • Updating roster and the poster outside of the front office

Initiatives by Subcommittee

Media & Communications

Revamp of website, twitter, and bulletin board left dormant since the pandemic. A particular focus is updating the landing page for our new emergency flowcharts. Development of promotional materials for the lab coat laundering service and other events.

Development

Our current focus is developing the new undergraduate certificate program offered by the CSSC. We hope to recruit students by July 2023 for participation in the program starting the following fall semester. We are also preparing for the new graduate student week and creating an onboarding document template for labs to welcome those new students.

Operations

Developing and publishing new Safety Moment publications. Drafting a list of new PPE to be stocked in the stockroom and releasing materials detailing the protection level of currently-stocked items, such as gloves, and as well as general PPE promotional materials. Producing new events for the larger Chemistry community including an Ask Me Anything event and our Safety Day 2.0.