Safety Training by Role
Our safety trainings help ensure a safe, compliant, and productive research and learning environment. Some trainings are required annually; others depend on your work area and duties. Examples include CPR/AED, Biosafety, Compressed Gases, Laser Safety, NMR Facility, and Mass Spec Facility training.
Please note: These departmental trainings supplement the required modules in UNM’s Learning Central and address specific local procedures, hazards, and equipment.
Contact the Safety Coordinator to determine which trainings apply to you and to ensure you are up to date. The trainings below are grouped by your role within the department.
Everyone must take annually:
Area Emergency Plan, AEP Training Video, Emergency Quick GuideandQuiz
Hazard Communication Program, Hazardous Communication Training Video, andQuiz
Help! I'm Hurt and Quiz
Teaching Assistants each semester:
TA Training (in-person ONLY)
"New" Lab Researchers:
Intro to Lab Research (Fall course)
Laboratory Technicians and Researchers must take annually:
Chemical Spills
Eyewash & Safety Showers andQuiz
Hazardous Waste Management Training and Printout and Quiz
Laboratory Hazard Assessments & PPE and Quiz
Sharps Safety Training, Safe SHARPS Handling, and Quiz
As Needed Annually:
Autoclave and Quiz
Dichloromethane Safety
Introduction to Biosafety, Biological Safety Cabinet Spill Clean Up, Biological Spill Clean Up and Quiz
Chemical Inventory – RMM
Compressed Gas and Quiz
Fall Protection
Fire Extinguisher and Quiz
Formaldehyde
GC/MS (offered through Curt Mowry)
Go Kits
Hydrofluoric Acid Safety
Laser (offered through EHS)
Liquid Nitrogen Part 1 and Quiz
Nanotechnology Safety
NMR (offered through Anne Rachupka)
Peroxide Formers and Quiz
Pregnancy in Laboratories
Radiation (offered through Radiation Safety Office)
Respirable Crystalline Silica
Schlenk Line Safety
Service Animals
For More Resources
Please visit Environmental Health & Safety.
