Interesting discussion everyone.
I took Flinn's Online High School Safety Certification course (FREE!) and I
found it very valuable, even as a teacher with 10 years experience at the
time. The course is at https://labsafety.flinnsci.com/. I do think the
place NEACT could be useful was in addressing safety in context of a
standard Chem I curriculum and the labs we all do instead of just the
general rules addressed by Flinn, Lab Safety Institute, etc. NEACT's work
really should be on top of/in addition to a general safety training though.
We should all be pointing teachers to Flinn's course and also advocating
for districts to give PD time to Chemistry teachers to do the course so
it's not only on their own time. I'm totally in favor of NEACT developing
something on top of/in addition to this.
