All VA-Paid and WOC employees who work in a VA Initially lab with liquid nitrogen present. (within 30 Provided by the Liquid Nitrogen Training days Lab’s PI of hire) All VA-Paid and WOC employees who work in a VA Initially Provided by the lab and deal with radiation. (within 30 Radiation Safety Training Radiation Safety Officer days (Dr. S. Shukla, Ext. 6514, ) of hire) *NOTE: VA labs = VA biological research laboratories that may include work with bio-hazardous materials, blood borne pathogens, radiation, chemicals, and other potentially hazardous materials **NOTE: Definition of = training must be taken within 30 days of the employee’s hire date. “initially” Appendix A GUIDELINES FOR SAFETY TRAINING Continued – Required For Frequency Training Title Method Training Required Annually All VA-Paid and WOC employees who are responsible Every 2 Years for shipping (sending) bio-hazardous materials in VA (within 730 VA Biohazard Shipping CITI labs days Training http://www.citiprogram.org of last training All VA-Paid and WOC employees who work with Annually human or non-human primate blood, body fluids, (within 365 VA Blood borne CITI organs, tissues, cell lines or cell clones and/or animals days Pathogens, Basic Course http://www.citiprogram.org exposed to such materials in VA labs of last training All VA-Paid or WOC employees who work with Annually VA Understanding nanotechnology in VA labs (within 365 CITI Nanotechnology and Its days http://www.citiprogram.org Implications of last training
All VA-Paid and WOC employees who work in a VA lab with liquid nitrogen present. Initially (within 30 days of hire) Liquid Nitrogen Training Provided by the Lab’s PI All VA-Paid and WOC employees who work in a VA lab and deal with radiation. Initially (within 30 days of hire) Radiation Safety Training Provided by the Radiation Safety Officer (Dr. S. Shukla, Ext. 6514, ) *NOTE: VA labs = VA biological research laboratories that may include work with bio-hazardous materials, blood borne pathogens, radiation, chemicals, and other potentially hazardous materials **NOTE: Definition of “initially” = training must be taken within 30 days of the employee’s hire date. Appendix A GUIDELINES FOR SAFETY TRAINING – Continued Required For Frequency Training Title Method Training Required Annually All VA-Paid and WOC employees who are responsible for shipping (sending) bio-hazardous materials in VA labs Every 2 Years (within 730 days of last training VA Biohazard Shipping Training CITI http://www.citiprogram.org All VA-Paid and WOC employees who work with human or non-human primate blood, body fluids, organs, tissues, cell lines or cell clones and/or animals exposed to such materials in VA labs Annually (within 365 days of last training VA Blood borne Pathogens, Basic Course CITI http://www.citiprogram.org All VA-Paid or WOC employees who work with nanotechnology in VA labs Annually (within 365 days of last training VA Understanding Nanotechnology and Its Implications CITI http://www.citiprogram.org