Health and Safety

Are you ready?

• Know what to do in emergencies

Accessing a Room or Laboratory:

In order to obtain keys and/or an access card, you must complete a key or access card request form which can be obtained from the departmental administrative secretary.

Forms

New personnel must complete an orientation form which can be obtained from the departmental administrative secretary.

• Accident, Incident or occupational Disease Form
• Informed Consent Form for Visitors and Volunteers

Training and responsibilities

• Job Specific Training
• General Environmental and Health & Safety Training
• WHMIS course for Office Workers
• New at U of O?
• WHMIS On Line
• Register for training
• Register for Laboratory safety training
• Register for Dry Lab Risk Management training

Documentation and Procedures

• Laboratory Safety (http://www.uottawa.ca/services/ehss/labsafety.htm).
• Occupational Health & Safety Programs (http://www.uottawa.ca/services/ehss/ohsintro.htm)
• Designated Substances, Chemical and Biological Exposures (http://www.uottawa.ca/services/ehss/dessubstances.htm)

• Field Work (http://www.uottawa.ca/services/ehss/fieldwork.htm)
• After-hours access to laboratories

Personnel

• Health, Safety and Risk Manager, Pierre Laflamme
• Facilities Manager, Pierrette Strasbourg

Office of Risk Management