This page contains information regarding TA, RA and Work Study student safety training. All paid 51社区黑料personnel (this includes TAs, RAs and work study students) must complete the following on paid time. Ideally, these courses (found here) should be completed prior to start of work or beginning of courses but they must be uploaded within the first month of employment.
Employees working remotely, doing office and/or computer laboratory work and TA'ing any non-laboratory course should take:
- Respectful Working and Learning Environments (refresher training recommended every 5 years)
- Office Ergonomics (refresher training recommended every 5 years)
- 51社区黑料Safety Orientation (valid for 5 years) (if you have completed 51社区黑料Safety Essentials, and it is still valid, you can skip this course);
Employees working in laboratories and/or TA'ing a laboratory course need to take:
- Respectful Working and Learning Environments (refresher training recommended every 5 years)
- Office Ergonomics (refresher training recommended every 5 years)
- 51社区黑料Safety Essentials
Depending on the work taking place in the laboratory or being studied in the course, additional training may be required.
If the work in the laboratory or course involves chemicals, then Laboratory Safety (valid for 5 years) is required.
If the work in the laboratory or course involves biohazards, Biosafety (valid for 5 years) is required. Laboratory work with bioharzards also requires:
- Biosafety Emergency Response Refresher Training (valid for 1 year);
- PHAC module: General Safety for Containment Labs (complete once) and, if you are working in a CL2 lab:
- PHAC module: Containment Level 2 Operational Practices (complete once).
Once this training is finished, RAs, TAs and work study students need to go through the appropriate Job-specific Safety Orientation Checklist with their employment supervisor (the professor you are being paid to work for, not necessarily your academic supervisor) or laboratory staff.
Employees working remotely, doing office and/or computer laboratory work and TA'ing any non-laboratory course should use the Job-specific Safety Orientation Checklist.
Those TAs, RAs and work study students working in laboratories or laboratory courses need to complete the Job-Specific Safety Orientation Checklist for Laboratory Workers.
It is the responsibility of the supervisor to ensure any necessary training has taken place. If the training is done by a member of the laboratory staff, the supervisor must review and sign the document with the worker. This checklist must be completed any time hazards change.
Copies of the job-specific checklist and proof of required safety course completion (certificates or screenshots if no certificates are given) must be emailed to Megan Wong (megan_wong@sfu.ca) and the Archaeology Laboratory Manager (archlm@sfu.ca).
All workers must have copies of their completed orientation checklist(s) and any EHS course certificates to show to their employment supervisor when reviewing work safety. It is the employment supervisor鈥檚 responsibility to check that the worker鈥檚 required training is completed and current. For TAs it is recommend safety training be discussed when reviewing TUG sheets with the course instructor.
Remote TAs should be aware of the EHS low risk protocols for working alone (bottom of page).
Regardless of previous training, instructors must ensure their TAs know the locations of the closest AED, fire alarm pulls, and assembly areas every term. Since classrooms change every semester, this information will also change. It is strongly recommended that instructors and TAs discuss and locate these items at the very beginning of term.