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Safety is everyone's business

If you work in one of the areas below, chances are you have witnessed an incident or a near miss involving chemicals.

Teaching labs
Manufacturing
Research and development
Facilities maintenance
Healthcare
Restaurant/hospitality
Shipping, logistics, & transportation

Why publish and share

Aside from helping others learn from your wisdom and prevent safety incidents, people who publish in trusted, peer-reviewed journals from the ACS accelerate in their careers. Having your work vetted by experts helps establish you as an expert.

Details matter

The most catastrophic events are often an accumulation of seemingly inconsequential things. We’re interested in real-world encounters or near misses related to:

Spills
Calculation errors (rounding, conversions, decimals, etc.)
Fires
Inhalation hazards
Unintended reactions
Personal protective equipment failures
Materials handling and security (storage, shipping, access, etc.)
Physical hazards
Cumulative exposure (heavy metals, PFAS)
Testing and analysis
Security threats and controlled substances

Helping others learn from your experience is easy!

We want to help you publish your experience in the peer-reviewed journal ACS Chemical Health & Safety in the form of a brief case study.

Don’t worry, it’s easy. Case studies and editorials on safety incidents can be as brief as 2 pages or as lengthy as they need to be to tell the story. We also publish methods, protocols, and spotlights on safety. You don’t have to be a researcher or a Ph.D. to publish your experience. We want to hear from teachers, health care providers, maintenance professionals, safety officers, and more. We’ll even offer guidance.

Tools for getting started now

One of the best ways to get started is to look at articles that have been published. Click the images above for free full-text access to a variety of article types and lengths.

Ready to dive in? Visit the Guidelines for Writing a Case Study or download an article template. If you’ve already written about your experience, submit an article for immediate consideration.

Not ready to publish? We'll help.

Still unsure? Fill out this very short form to tell the journal’s Editor-in-Chief your story. Dr. Mary Beth Mulcahy reviews all submissions personally and offers guidance on how to get from idea to publication.

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