S-lab Safety Training and Certification

Step 1: Signing up for the UC Learning Center

• Go to this page.

• Enter your information, paying attention to the formatting directions (phone numbers must typed be in XXX-XXX-XXXX format)

• For “Required Training”, enter “Laboratory Safety for Research Personnel, Electrical Safety in Research, PPE: Eye and Face Protection, and Hazardous Waste Management”.

• For “Supervisor or Professor Requiring Training”, enter “Tela Favaloro” and select Tela from the drop-down menu.

• For Academic Department/Unit Requiring your Training, enter “PHYSICAL & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES”.

• Click “Order Now” in the top-right corner and checkout.

Step 2: UC Learning Center Courses

• After a few business days, you’ll receive an email saying your account has been activated. You now have access to the UC Learning Center by clicking “USER LOGIN” on this page.

• We strongly recommend using Firefox for these courses. Safari basically doesn't work at all, and we've had some issues with Chrome. If you are running into issues with the courses, try opening the site in Firefox before anything else.

• Click “Find A Course”. Search for, and complete, these four courses:

  • PPE: Eye and Face Protection

  • Hazardous Waste Management

  • Electrical Safety in Research

  • Laboratory Safety Fundamentals (may show up as a sub-task of “Laboratory Safety for Research Personnel")

• When you have completed these courses, return to the homepage of the UC Learning Center and click “Transcript & Certificates”.

• Click the diploma-shaped icons for each course and download the pdfs of your certificates.

• Email these pdfs to slugbotics@ucsc.edu. We’ll keep them on file.

Step 3: UC Safety

• Go to this site.

• Select UC Santa Cruz from the dropdown list and login with your CruzID.

• You are now in the mysterious ether that is the UC Safety database.

• Close that tab for now. Logging in activates your account in UC Safety so it can be used later, and that’s all we need.

Step 4: Fire Extinguisher Training

• Go to this site.

• Complete the short training course and practice quiz. Note that this quiz is unnecessary to be certified, it's just practice for the S-lab quiz listed in the next step. They are the same questions.

• Take the S-lab fire extinguisher quiz at this link.

• Take a screenshot of the completed form and email it to slugbotics@ucsc.edu.

Step 5: S-lab Onboarding Form

• Fill out this Google form.

• For "What team/project are you affiliated with?", write "Slugbotics". This is an S-lab document, not a Slugbotics one, so it doesn't matter which sub-team in Slugbotics you are in.

• Under “Mark your completed safety training”, check the boxes for Laboratory Safety Fundamentals, Hazardous Waste Management, Fire Extinguisher Training, LHAT and PPE Certification, and Electrical Safety in Research.

• For “Mark your completed SOPs”, check the boxes for things that you have had prior experience and training for. There are no official Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) written for the S-lab yet, so just mark the ones you consider yourself to be skilled at.

For “Please indicate which keys are needed”, do not check any boxes. We only get a few keys for the lab, and the admin team already has them. There will almost always be someone from Slugbotics or Formula Slug in the lab who can let you in if you need to work.

• On the last page, read all the guidelines and sign your name. Make sure to check the box for “Send me a copy of my responses”, as this allows you to edit the form later.

• Completing this form shows the S-lab supervisor that you’re a part of Slugbotics, and eventually you’ll be added to our group on the UC Safety site.

• After completing this step, you are prepared to attend the S-lab safety information sessions that will be announced in Slack.

Step 6: LHAT

• At some point (NOTE: IT WILL TAKE A VERY LONG TIME. DON’T WORRY TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS), you will be added to the S-lab group on the UC Safety site. There is no email or other notification for this, so you’ll have to check the site periodically after logging in for the first time.

• Go to this site (the same site that you visited in Step 3).

• Click the button for LHAT (laboratory hazard assessment tool) on the UC Safety site. Review the corresponding form and video, and complete the short quiz.

• Once you have completed it, click the button that says "next steps" and click the "Print PPE voucher".

• Save it as a PDF and email it to slugbotics@ucsc.edu.

Congratulations! You’re now fully* trained and certified to use the S-lab.

*Please note that this isn’t comprehensive in terms of actual lab safety. It’s merely the certifications we’re required to have you complete to work in the S-lab. The heavy machinery, soldering irons, and high-voltage power supplies have additional training/SOPs associated with them, and we’ll give you more practical lab information when you actually start working in the lab.

Last update 2020-01-30 by Theo Kell