New in 2022: To simplify training assignment and compliance reporting, EHS now offers three groups of commonly required lab safety courses. Select the one track that corresponds to the risks in your lab, in lieu of several individual tracks. Supervisors can contact ORRS.train@msu.edu for assistance removing individual tracks from employees and transitioning to using Lab Safety tracks.
Which lab safety track is right for me? (PDF)
Option 1: Lab Safety-Basics Track
For work in laboratories with chemicals but no biological safety risks. Includes courses:
Option 2: Lab Safety-Basics+Biological Track
For work in laboratories with infectious agents; live animals; recombinant DNA; etc. Includes courses:
Option 3: Lab Safety-Basics, Biological + Bloodborne Track
For work in laboratories with bloodborne pathogens; human cell lines; etc. Includes courses:
Lab workers: see Lab Safety tracks. This subject is included in all three Lab Safety tracks.
Other workers handling hazardous chemicals:
Lab workers: see Lab Safety tracks. This course is included in all three Lab Safety tracks.
Recommended if working in a lab in campus building built before 1980:
Lab workers: see Lab Safety tracks. This course is included in all three Lab Safety tracks.
Required if handling compressed gases:
Required if handling cryogen cylinders:
Required if working in human or veterinary anatomy labs (or related anatomy spaces where formalin preserved tissue is used):
Recommended for human and veterinary healthcare personnel working with or near hazardous drugs, including chemotherapy agents:
See Lab Safety tracks. This course is included in all three Lab Safety tracks.
Recommended if working in a laboratory:
Required if using sharps (needles, syringes, Pasteur pipettes, microscope slides) in a non-medical/non-biohazard setting:
Lab workers: see Lab Safety tracks. This subject is included in the Lab Safety tracks.
Other workers in environments at Biosafety Level 1 or higher:
MSU EMPLOYEES IN LABS at risk for occupational exposure to human blood or other human potentially infectious materials: see Lab Safety tracks. This subject is included in the Lab Safety tracks.
MSU EMPLOYEES IN CLINICS at risk for occupational exposure to human blood or other human potentially infectious materials:
RHS, IPF, and MSU Police employees - check with your supervisor to confirm required training/ see if department specific instructor-led training is required.
NON-MSU RESIDENTS at risk for occupational exposure to human blood or other human potentially infectious materials:
UNPAID STUDENTS working around human blood or other human potentially infectious materials:
Lab workers - see Lab Safety tracks. This subject is included in the Lab Safety tracks.
Required if operating an autoclave or supervising an autoclave operator:
Required if routinely shipping of biological materials and/or packages containing dry ice.
Required for principal investigators involved in Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecule Research:
Lab workers at risk for bloodborne pathogens - see Lab Safety tracks. This subject is grouped in the Lab Safety tracks.
Clinic workers - see Bloodborne Pathogens. This subject is grouped with BBP.
Required for healthcare professionals if there is any chance of having contact with patients.
VMC Clinical Basic track: Required for personnel working at the Veterinary Medical Center, all Vet Tech/Vet Nursing students, and all DVM students.
VMC Clinical Safety track: Required for clinicians, technicians, and students working on a Veterinary Medicine Center clinic floor.
AVMA-PLIT Courses: Required for Vet Med students and clinicians.
See Vet Med Requirements for more details.
Required if working with non-human primate materials, such as monkey cell lines or tissues.
Required if using or have access to controlled substances:
Recommended if involved in research with live animals:
Required if generating or handling regulated waste at VMC:
Required for academic students who come into contact with live animals during a course:
Required if using radioactive material:
Required if using Class 3B or Class 4 open beam lasers. Recommended for all laser users:
Required if working with gas chromatographs (GC) equipped with radioactive electron capture devices (ECD):
Clinical x-ray devices:
Analytical x-ray devices:
Asbestos Awareness
Required for maintenance and custodial employees who need to recognize potential asbestos-containing material and damaged ACM:
Asbestos Operations & Maintenance
Required for employees who perform maintenance operations where asbestos-containing material is likely to be disturbed:
Required if involved in maintenance activities that may impact coated surfaces, including paint, primer, varnish, and shellac:
Required if managing petroleum products and chemicals in a non-laboratory setting:
Recommended for personnel whose job duties may impact storm water:
Management practices and safety measures to protect water in MSU's Wellhead Protection area:
Required if using blasting cabinet:
Required if using a personal lift, scissor lift or boom lift, including truck mounted lifts:
Recommended for anyone who lifts as part of their job:
Required if operating an overhead hoist, whether powered or manual:
Required if entering confined spaces:
Required if operating warehouse, rough terrain type fork trucks:
Required if authorized to conduct on-site fork truck evaluations:
Required if using powered hand tools.
Required if working around hazardous chemicals in a non-laboratory setting.
Required if receiving annual audiometric testing:
Required if using a portable ladder:
Required if servicing equipment on which the unexpected release of hazardous energy could cause injury:
Required if operating a machine on which servicing or maintenance is being performed under lock out or tag out:
Required if using a golf cart, utility cart, skid steer, snowmobile:
Required if operating an overhead crane or gantry crane rated 5 tons or more:
Required prior to working in an area that has been treated with pesticides under the EPA Worker Protection Standard (WPS) for agricultural workers. This includes greenhouses and certain forested areas.
To apply pesticides, you must also have current State Pesticide Applicator license.
Required if using low-lift:
Required if wearing a respirator of any type.
Required if exposed to crystalline silica in the workplace:
Required if working in hot or cold environments:
Required if using a tractor: