All AOE personnel (faculty, staff, graduate students, wage employees and undergraduate researchers) are required to have core safety training from Virginia Tech Enviromental Health and Safety (EHS). To obtain you must register on the EHS Training webpage, enroll in and then pass the 5 required classes. These classes are:
Before personnel can begin work in any AOE Experimental Workspace they must have the explicit permission of the faculty or staff member responsible for that space (see table below), be listed in the Safety Management System site for that space, and have met all the safety form and additional training requirements for that space.
Each experimental workspace must have a current safety form that can be found on the door to the space. The form includes documentation specific hazards that users need to be aware of, training that is required before they begin work in that space, the chemicals present in the lab and the location of their safety data sheets, and any rigs within the space that have their own safety requirements (and form).
Copies of the safety forms for all AOE experimental workspaces, and experimental rigs are also linked in the following table. At the bottom of this page a second table is provided with links to documents or webpages with other relevent safety information.
A full copy of each safety form listed below should be prominently posted next to the facility listed
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