General Lab Training
All personnel on an IBC Registration must complete basic laboratory safety and hazardous waste training prior to beginning work with biohazards (rDNA, genetically modified organisms, and infectious agents). Laboratory Safety training is available online (http://www.uaf.edu/safety/lab_safety_6-18-07.ppt), while Hazardous Waste training is an offered in-person by EHS&RM and unit chemical hygiene or safety officers (list). EHS&RM is developing an online Hazardous Waste training program that should be available for Spring semester.
Biological Safety Cabinet Training
The course material and quizzes are available through Blackboard. Contact the Office of Research Integrity (fycomp@uaf.edu or 474-7832) if you need to be enrolled in the blackboard course. You will need to provide your full name and UAF username (email). Everyone who will be using a biological safety cabinet as part of their work on an IBC registration must sucessfully complete this course.
Protocol Specific Training
Biosafety
training at UAF is currently done on an as needed basis so that it can
be customized for the specific organisms and/or agents to be utilized.
Contact the UAF Biosafety Officer,
Tracey Martinson, for more information.
General reference material is available on the Web Links page of this
website.
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