Purpose
The CSC provides oversight and advocacy to improve safety and compliance for research involving high-hazard chemicals and processes, and physical hazards, in laboratories and related research settings. The committee supports the university's laboratory safety culture by advising on policies, procedures, training, guidance, and corrective actions for significant or complex research safety issues.
Guiding principles:
- Safety is everyone's responsibility.
- Good science is safe science.
- Safety controls should be risk-based, practical, and sustainable.
The Chemical Safety Committee Charter includes additional information about the committee’s policies and procedures.
The following responsibilities have been assigned to the Chemical Safety Committee:
- Review significant chemical and laboratory safety risks, trends, incidents, near misses, and recurring inspection issues.
- Recommend improvements to policies, procedures, training, inspection tools, emergency planning, and other guidance that support safe and compliant research.
- Review and provide feedback on the Chemical Safety Program annual report and related metrics, priorities, and corrective-action trends.
- Document committee recommendations and, when needed, communicate them to the appropriate university stakeholders through the established research safety governance structure.
- Support a culture of safety by encouraging practical, department-level solutions for recurring or complex issues.
This schedule is subject to change since the CSC must verify a quorum attendance at each meeting.
TO BE DETERMINED
Membership 2026-2029
The Chemical Safety Committee (CSC) will comprise no fewer than eight members. Members are appointed to ensure they collectively have experience and expertise in chemical and experimental hazards, and the capability to assess the safety of research involving hazardous chemicals and processes, and physical hazards and to identify any potential risk to the researchers, other persons, facilities or the environment.
| Member | Affiliation | Role/Unit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jochen Lauterbach | Professor and Smartstate Endowed Chair for Strategic Approaches to the Generation of Electricity (SAGE) | Chair | |
| Jocelyn Locke | Chemical Hygiene Officer | Research Safety | |
| Adam Roberge | Assistant Chemical Hygiene Officer | Research Safety | |
| Chuanbing Tang | SmartState Endowed Chair on Polymer Nanocomposites & Carolina Distinguished Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry | Organic Chemistry | |
| Dmitry Peryshkov | Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry | Inorganic Chemistry | |
| Nicholas Truex | Assistant Proffesor, Chemistry and Biochemistry | Biochemistry | |
| Michael Wyatt | Chair, Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences | Pharmacy | |
| Xinyu Huang | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering | Engineering | |
| Juan Caicedo | Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering | Engineering | |
| Campbell McInnes | Professor, Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences | Synthetic Organic Chemistry | |
| Melissa Ellermann | Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences | Biology | |
| VACANT | Professor, Media Arts & Director of School of Visual Art and Design | Media/Visual Art | |
| Amy Taylor-Perry | Senior Instructor & General Chemistry Lab Coordinator | Teaching Laboratory | |
| Rae Reviel | Graduate Student, Chemistry & Biochemistry | Student | |
| VACANT | Graduate Student, Engineering | Student | |
| Patricia Bruno | College Research Safety Coordinator | MCAS & MCEC | |
| Mirza Isanovic | SOM Research Safety Coordinator | School of Medicine | |
| Dexter Reasons | Research Safety Coordinator (non-voting ) | Administrator |