Training is fundamental to safety. Both the Environmental Health & Safety Office (EH&S) and the School of Medicine Health & Safety Office provide training material. EH&S maintains specific guidance materials and tools to help you develop an effective chemical hygiene and laboratory safety program. In particular circumstances, training can be required as a condition of laboratory access.

All safety training should be completed before an individual is allowed to work unsupervised in a Stanford laboratory. PIs play a key role in ensuring staff members properly identify and complete safety training. To assist you in determining what safety training you, your students, and project staff need to take, visit the online tool "Training Advisor."

After answering a set of questions about job duties, a list of required training will be emailed to both the employee and supervisor.

In addition to the courses specified by using the Training Advisor, supervisors, managers, and PIs must provide Tier III health and safety training on hazards specific to the job site, equipment used, experimental procedures, etc. Supervisors, Managers, and Principal Investigators may contact EH&S for assistance in developing and reviewing their local Tier III training. Please contact the Occupational Health and Safety group at (650) 725-3209.

The Department of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) is the principal health and safety office at Stanford University. EH&S works closely with the University Safety Partners (the designated safety officers in the laboratory schools, Operations and Maintenance and Housing and Food Services) and the safety coordinators, safety committees, administrators and faculty in the departments. If you need help or information about health and safety, call EH&S at 723-0448.

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