Mandatory Safety Training

All undergraduates are required to take Employee Safety Orientation and (WHMIS) Workplace Hazardous Materials Information Systems training :Employee Safety Orientation SO1001 and WHMIS 2015 SO20217

• SO1001 Employee safety orientation (requires 30-60 minutes to complete)
• SO1081 Workplace violence awareness (requires 30-60 minutes to complete)
• SO2017 WHMIS 2015 (requires 45-60 minutes to complete)
• Asbestos Awareness Online (SO1062) (requires 30minutes to complete)
• Heat Stress Awareness (SO2031)Online, 30 minutes 
• Accessibility Training Module, Online, 1 hour

• Electrical Awareness (SO2033)Online, 1 hour 

NOTE: Additional training may be required if working in a lab; please see Students, Staff & Faculty Working in Labs

SO1100 Supervisor Safety Awareness (requires 60 minutes to complete)

​Supervisors include:

• All supervisory and managerial staff
• Faculty members who supervise employees, graduate students or undergraduate students in a laboratory, fieldwork or other work setting
• Technical staff, research staff and paid graduate students assigned responsibility to supervise the work of others or the operation of a laboratory/shop

High risk work includes work that, among other things, includes Higher Risk Field work, Laboratories, technical and maintenance shops, areas where hazardous materials are used,  commercial kitchens, Custodial/housekeeping

• SO1003 Supervisor Safety Orientation
• SO1007 Inspecting the Workplace
• SO1012 Incident Investigation
• SO1019 Job Hazard Analysis

Anyone who will be conducting work in the CEE laboratories must:

• Submit a completed Researcher’s Declaration & Supervisor’s Acknowledgement form (PDF) and CEE Record of Training (PDF) to the CEE department secretary before you are eligible to work in any of our laboratories.
• Complete Laboratory safety SO1010
• Complete Hazard Specific Training
• Read Policy 34
• Attend a laboratory orientation

If you are a graduate student within the Environmental Group you will also need to complete the following: 

• Biosafety (SO1069), 1-1.5 hours 
• Cryogenic and Compressed Gas Safety (SO1030), 1 hour 
• Hazardous Waste Segregation (SO2035), 1 hour 

Laboratory orientation sessions are run by the technical staff at the beginning of each term. There are different technicians for the various lab spaces as follows:

Structures:
Doug Hirst​
Richard Morrison
Peter Volcic

Geotechnical:
Anne Allen

Hydraulics and Hydrology:
Mark Hummel

Environmental:
Mark Sobon
Mark Merlau

Please contact the appropriate staff member to attend a lab orientation session.  If you do not have the appropriate safety training, you will be denied access to the labs. You must bring a copy of your training record to this session to obtain the appropriate technologist’s signature in order to be considered lab-ready.

The following lab-specific information is also important reading as it with familiarize you with individual lab procedures: 

• Geotechnical Lab Safety (PDF)
• Environmental labs (PDF)