Chemical Hygiene Committee (ChyComm)
About ChyComm
The Chemical Hygiene Committee (ChyComm) promotes safety within the department's laboratories, classrooms, and the building at large. Its mission is to maximize safety for all building residents by developing and monitoring laboratory and health-related protocols and helping to educate and train people to help prevent and respond to emergency situations.
ChyComm is not limited to chemical safety. In the past, committee members have engaged in such things as solving poor cell-signal issue in CBEC, hosting CPR trainings, arranging discussions with EHS, organizing mental health safety trainings (suicide prevention), and hosting mini-labs on processes such as how to safely put out a fire.
ChyComm will continue to strive for a safe working environment for our department and connect students between different research groups.
Visit the Safety page for more information about best practices.
Getting Involved
If you would like to get involved in ChyComm, please contact your CEGC representative.
Organization
ChyComm is organized and run by CBE graduate students with supervision from a faculty representative. The committee generally consists of one student chair, one co-chair, one safety coordinator from each research group, one faculty representative, and two staff representatives. ChyComm meets monthly to discuss safety-related topics so safety coordinators can deliver them to all the research groups in the department.
Lab Safety Leaders and Coordinators:
- Lab Safety Coordinators for each research group are available for any safety questions related to the specific research group. Contact your designated representative.
Faculty representative:
- Dr. Andrew Maxson, maxson.32@osu.edu
CBE staff representatives:
- Anthony McCoy, mccoy.287@osu.edu
- Leigh Evrard, evrard.2@osu.edu