ChemManager+ is the UW supported chemical inventory system, integrated with ShopUW+. This training provides introductory training and ongoing resorces to help users interact with the ChemManager+ system. See ChemManager.wisc.edu for more information.
Anyone using or interested in using ChemManager+.
Beryllium awareness training is for those who work with or are in spaces with potential exposure to Beryllium and Beryllium compounds.
Students, employees, and visiting researchers
Some pharmaceuticals that are used in animal research are regulated as hazardous waste. In this course, you will learn about how to properly dispose of expired or unused hazardous pharmaceuticals.
This course was intended for veterinarians, vet technicians, and researchers and study team members on protocols that include hazardous pharmaceuticals.
Reproductive Hazards in Research is intended to be a comprehensive course that identifies potential hazards in the research community for women, men, the developing fetus, and children at home. Extensive resources for reproductive hazards in a research setting can be difficult to elucidate, therefore, we hope this course is a valuable resource for potential side effects from exposure to biological, chemical, and radioactive hazards as well as method of prevention. This course also offers resources in the form of guidance documents and publications to identify more detailed and specific information.
This course is intended for anyone on campus who is a significant other, currently pregnant or considering becoming pregnant.
Employees who work with chemicals need to have the tools and knowledge to work with those chemicals safely. This short training is for supervisors, facility managers, and others who need to develop a hazard communication plan for their work site. The main components of a hazard communication plan that are discussed here include chemical/product inventories, safety data sheets, labeling products, training, and facility visits.
This short training is for facilities personnel who need to dispose of common items such as batteries, light bulbs, ballasts, and various types of oil.
It is important that everyone who conducts research knows how to identify the risks of an experiment and develop a plan to reduce those risks. This course covers experimental hazards, the “what if” approach, probabilities, and the hierarchy of controls. Participants in this highly interactive course will choose at least one risk assessment to complete from a given list of procedures. Participants may also choose to submit a risk assessment for an experiment conducted in their own laboratory and receive feedback about it from EH&S.
Anyone who conducts laboratory or field research
This interactive course covers how to work safely with compressed gas cylinders. Topics include storage, transport, the parts of cylinders and regulators, air monitoring, and the hazards of specific types of gases (e.g. flammable, pyrophoric, corrosive, toxic).
Anyone who works with or near compressed gas cylinders
In this online course you will learn how to safely handle needles and glassware, learn how to respond to a needle stick or cut from broken glass, and learn how to properly dispose sharps.
Everyone who uses sharps or needles when conducting chemical manipulations
The Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) training is a basic guide to common laboratory PPE and their uses. This training will cover general recommendations for appropriate PPE, where to find lab procedure specific PPE requirements, when PPE should and should not be used, and knowing the different types of PPE and the hazards they protect against. Since this is not a complete guide to all PPE used on hazards in your specific laboratory this training will help guide you to resources to make the right decision of your particular laboratory hazards. After this training; you will have a better understanding of how to choose and use PPE, where to go to get information if you are unsure about PPE, and what hazards PPE will and will not protect against.
This training will is available for all UW-Madison employees.
Anyone interested in learning more about PPE