Safety Training for Common Research Activities

Activity

 

Safety Class

Do you need to drive university vehicles?

Do you need to drive university golf carts or other low-speed utility carts?

Do you handle hazardous chemicals or other hazardous materials in your work area (non-laboratory)?

Do you work in a laboratory with hazardous chemicals or other hazardous materials?

 

Do you generate wastes that contain hazardous chemicals, biohazards, tissues, body fluids, infectious agents or radioactive material?

Hazardous Waste Management (Instructor-led)

Do you work with recombinant or synthetic DNA, infectious materials, infectious animals, human clinical samples, human blood, body fluids or tissues?

For the following trainings, please email IBC: ric_admin@nmsu.edu.

Bloodborne Pathogens (Instructor-led)

BioSafety Awareness (Instructor-led)


Do you work with radioactive sources or samples containing radioactive material?

Radiation Safety (HSI Online)

Do you work with x-ray machines or other devices that generate x-rays?

X-Ray Safety (HSI Online)

Contact the Radiation Safety Officer / RSC

Do you operate Class 3B or Class 4 lasers?

Laser Safety (HSI - Online)

Do you conduct field research?

Field Research Safety (HSI - Online)

Do you work with live animals?

For the following trainings, please email IBC: ric_admin@nmsu.edu.

Animal Worker Safety (Instructor-led)

Do you need to wear a tight-fitting respirator (full-face, half-face, N-95)?

Respirator Protection Training & Fit Testing (Online)

Do you apply or work in areas where pesticides, herbicides or fungicides are applied (farms, agricultural fields or greenhouses)?

 

Please email EHS&RM to schedule the following trainings: ehsrm@nmsu.edu

 

Worker Protection Standard - Worker (Instructor-led)

Worker Protection Standard - Handler (Instructor-led)
Are you a shop supervisor or shop monitor in a shared academic or research shop?
Please email EHS&RM to schedule the following trainings: ehsrm@nmsu.edu
Academic / Research Shop Safety Program Training for Shop Supervisors and Shop Monitors (Instructor-led) 

List above is not a complete list of safety training.  Required training will vary depending on worker's specific work duties and job functions.  For most people, multiple safety training classes will be required.  See Class Descriptions for a complete list of safety training offered.