EH&S 2025 Laboratory Safety Workshop
UAB’s Department of Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) has designed a workshop for Laboratory Managers, Supervisors and Science Educators that will offer an in-depth review of:
- laboratory safety practices
- UAB Policies and Procedures
- regulatory compliance
- incident response
EH&S offering training, resources on new DURC-PEPP policy
A new policy affecting all federally funded life sciences research involving biological agents, toxins or pandemic risks from enhanced or extinct pathogens takes effect May 6. To ensure the University of Alabama at Birmingham research community is informed and compliant with the new policy, Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) has developed training and support resources for affected researchers.
The new policy – called the United States Government Policy for Oversight of Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential (PEPP) – supersedes prior DURC and Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO) polices.
Read moreStudents should complete annual emergency evacuation course in April
The Environmental Health & Safety team will assign students the annual online emergency evacuation course in April. Students will receive a notification in Canvas indicating that they have been assigned the course.
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