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You will need to have a blue card showing completion and currency of the full Laboratory Safety Training or of the abbreviated Lab Safety Awareness Training. Lab Safety Awareness Training is a short, self-paced training that involves viewing a Powerpoint and completeing a short quiz on paper. This abbreviated training is not suitable training for those students doing normal lab work in research labs. You may complete the training on your own and email an image of the completed paper quiz along with a completed training attestation card (re text in RED, below) to the Office of Laboratory Safety to receive a blue card. Click here to get the Powerpoint and Quiz .
Are you a Faculty or Staff person working with vertebrates or cephalopods?
If you will be working with live vertebrate animals or cephalopods, you will need to take an online training module titled “Working With the IACUC for Investigators and Staff" at CITIProgram.org. See the Bowdoin IACUC page for more information. If you will be working with recombinant DNA, synthetic nucleic acid molecules, biohazardous agents, or biotoxins in College facilities, you will also need to complete “Initial Biosafety Training for Investigators and Staff” available online through CITIProgram.org. See the Bowdoin IBC page for more information. This training needs to be repeated every three years.
Are you a student who needs access to the vivarium or working with vertebrates?
Students needing access to the Vivarium or who will be coming into direct and repeated contact with live vertebrate animals will need to take an online training module titled “Working With the IACUC for Students" at CITIProgram.org. Students working with recombinant DNA, synthetic nucleic acid molecules, biohazardous agents, or biotoxins will also need to complete “Initial Biosafety Training for Students” available online through CITIProgram.org. This training will need to be repeated annually. Students should contact their professors or advisor to verify which training is required for their work.
Do you need to renew your training?
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