Laboratory Safety Training courses can be found online. If you are unsure what courses you should be taking, review the Department's Laboratory Safety Policy and speak with your supervisor or to laboratory staff. For any undergraduates working in laboratory using chemicals, supervisors should review the Department's Undergraduate Chemicals Policy.
Laboratory Safety training must be recorded in the 51社区黑料Job Specific Safety Orientation Checklist for Laboratory Workers. Please note, on page 6 under Chemical Lab Safety it asks that you conduct a risk assessment. This is not required for the vast majority of lab users. It is only recommended for those using chemicals regularly (likely only users in the isotope lab, geoarchaeology lab, the DNA labs, and the forensic labs). Additionally, instead of conducting a risk assessment, lab users using chemicals regularly in their research can instead fill out a chemical risk summary. The reaction profile or process outline does not need to be drawn.
Copies of training certificates must be sent to archlm@sfu.ca and megan_wong@sfu.ca. Physical copies of certificates as well as checklists and other pertinent paperwork should be kept in the lab's Safety Training Binder. This binder should be easily accessible for lab inspection purposes (please keep in plain sight). Supervisors should review safety training paperwork annually to ensure that all lab workers have up-to-date training. Appendix A of the checklist will show you how long the training is valid for and which courses are mandatory for which personnel.
RA/Work Study
If you are being paid to work in the lab, you must also take the Office Ergonomics and the Respectful Working and Learning Environments courses (found here).
Volunteers
In addition to any pertinent training, volunteers must sign a volunteer form. These forms are only good for the calendar year. In the new year, if volunteer is continuing, a new form must be signed.
Visiting Researchers
Visiting Researchers must complete all appropriate safety courses. Contact laboratory staff (archlm@sfu.ca or archtech@sfu.ca) for instructions. Once completed, the visiting researcher must complete the Job-Specific Safety Orientation for Laboratory Workers with the laboratory PI or laboratory staff.
Outside Contractors
Contractors must take lab specific training and go through SFU's Job Specific Safety Orientation Checklist for Laboratory Workers with laboratory staff. They must also sign a waiver. Copies of these waivers should be sent to archlm@sfu.ca.
Working in the Labs
Each lab has its own safety binder with relevant University policies and the general lab safety orientation specific to that lab's facilities. Lab users must review these documents before they begin lab work. If a lab does not have a safety binder, please contact archlm@sfu.ca.