Safety and Health: mandatory training
In accordance with current legislation on health and safety in the workplace, students enrolled in the first year of a UniPV course degree, upon receiving the invitation via email by the relevant office, must take a dedicated and mandatory safety training, based on the risk assessment carried out by the UniPV Prevention and Protection Department and ATS. The safety training is mandatory and necessary in order to access laboratories.
In addition, before beginning experimental activities in the lab, contact the local safety officer (ALS).
All the procedures described require the use of University credentials; if it is necessary to generate a new password, refer to the dedicated University website.
The mandatory safety training is delivered in e-learning (asynchronous) and is made up of the modules listed below:
- “GENERAL Training”
- "SPECIFIC Training for LOW RISK activities"
- "SPECIFIC Training for chemical lab" also named "Who well begins... - Safety in chemical and biological laboratories - chemical part"
- "SPECIFIC Training for biological lab" also named "Who well begins... - Safety in chemical and biological laboratories - biological part"
The Mandatory Safety Training program provides for the issuance of Open Badges and is monitored by an Academic Tutor (who can be contacted for any information and/or clarification regarding the academic assessment of the mandatory safety training program) and a Technical Tutor (who can be contacted for difficulties accessing, changing password...). The names of the Tutors are communicated in the invitation email that first year students receive from the relevant office.
The mandatory safety training must be completed by the deadline indicated by the Academic Tutor. In the even of failure in meeting the deadlines, for safety reasons, students will not be allowed to access the laboratories.
Once the mandatory safety training has been deactivated, the Academic Tutor sends a detailed report to the Academic Coordinator of the Master's Degree program and to the Department Director.
The PI must train the student on the activities carried out in his laboratory. Furthermore, emergency procedures will be illustrated.
At the end of this training the worker will receive the "INFORMATION AND TRAINING CERTIFICATE" (download here, "Verbale di avvenuta formazione/informazione/addestramento" - English version).
The student who works in the University laboratories must possess the SAFETY DATA SHEET. Please refer to your PI and ALS to fill the form. ALS are the following:
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SEZIONE DEL DBB |
ADDETTO LOCALE ALLA SICUREZZA (ALS) |
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Biologia Animale/Farmacologia (Palazzo Golgi-Spallanzani) |
Dr.ssa B. Balestra |
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Genetica |
Dr.ssa V. Grugni |
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Biochimica |
Dr A. Azzalin |
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Fisiologia |
Dr L. Guidotti |
Safety data sheet is a document that describes the activities that will take place in the laboratory and the risks associated with them. The presence of the safety data sheet and its correct compilation guarantees adequate monitoring of the worker's health through the health surveillance. In fact, each laboratory, in relation to its activities, presents associated risks, defined by the University Prevention and Protection Service.
The form must be filled out via the SafetyLive website, by logging in with your University credentials. However, the compilation guide is available.
The form must be closed and validated with the signatures of the interested party, the PI, the Director of the department and the ALS; the latter will send the same to the competent offices (Safety and Health Service) to start health surveillance.
If your activity is shared between multiple departments (and therefore multiple ALS) it will be necessary to involve all the employees, specifying this on the form, as well as collect the signatures of all the subjects involved.
Finally, if during your career it is necessary to introduce a new activity and therefore a new work risk, remember to alert the ALS to evaluate how to update the safety data sheet.
If the use of carcinogenic and/or mutagenic chemical agents is indicated in the safety data sheet, it will also be necessary to complete an additional data sheet: this is created during the compilation process of the safety data sheet.
This implies that the worker must complete the CANCEROGENS REGISTER (online) during his activity. Filling the register is carried out online and for compilation you can refer to the manual (download after login).
At the end of each year the register will be closed and validated, with the signatures of the interested party, the PI, the Director of the department and the ALS to allow health surveillance (online Docusign procedure: refer to the ALS).
- Alert the ALS when your activity in the Department finishes, who will close the safety data sheet and send the report to the competent offices;
- if required, complete and close the Carcinogens Register (see point 4);
- if available, return the lab coat to the ALS.
For the purposes and effects of the art. 2 of Legislative Decree 81/08 the figure of the Student working in a lab is equated to a "worker". The students' training course in the field of safety and health in the workplace is managed directly by the Prevention and Protection Service in collaboration with the university structure where the student carries out the activity.
In order to acquire specific safety regulations, student must refer to the Principal Investigator (PI) who is required to adequately train the student, in relation to the activities that he will carry out and in collaboration with the Local Safety Officer (ALS).