![]() ![]() ![]() Conducting annual audits of campus central storage facilities and activities conducted at the Howard T.Conducting training audits of non-laboratory personnel (e.g., dock employees, facility managers) who handle and sign shipping manifests for potentially infectious waste and.Ricketts Laboratory located at Argonne National Laboratory Conducting quarterly training audits of employees signing manifests for campus locations and non-clinical off-site research activities conducted at the Howard T. ![]() Providing program oversight for campus locations and non-clinical off-site research activities conducted at the Howard T.Providing online Oversized Potentially Infectious Waste Container (DOT-SP11185) training for employees who utilize or ship PIW in oversized waste containers (Stericycle 360 carts).Providing online Potentially Infectious Waste training for employees responsible for packaging PIW, preparing PIW containers for shipment or signing PIW manifests.Providing Bloodborne Pathogens training to non-laboratory personnel (e.g., dock workers, facility managers).Maintaining all waste manifests for non-clinical off-site research activities conducted at the Howard T.Maintaining all waste manifests from campus research activities and non-research activities (e.g., Laboratory Schools, UChicago Wellness, UCPD generated PIW).Notifying Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) of new laboratory locations that will be generating potentially infectious waste andĮnvironmental Health and Safety (EHS) is responsible for:.Auditing training records of laboratory personnel to ensure they have the appropriate training classes for handling potentially infectious materials.Ensuring laboratory research employees who handle, package, or ship potentially infectious materials have the appropriate training classes assigned to their training profile.Laboratory Safety Specialists (LSS) are responsible for: Confirming appropriate storage and handling of potentially infectious materials in the laboratory during laboratory inspections.Providing Bloodborne Pathogens training to laboratory research personnel who work with, package, or ship potentially infectious materials and.Office of Research Safety (ORS) is responsible for: Signing potentially infectious waste manifests at facilities without central storage ( see On-site Revmoval without Central Storage).Completing training required by this policy and.Packaging all PIW in accordance with the procedures identified in this policy.Providing PIW Liners and sharps containers.Providing reusable PIW containers in buildings without on-site central storage.Maintaining biohazard spill kits located at central storage locations.Notifying assigned Laboratory Safety Specialist and the Office of Research Safety (ORS) when a new principal investigator will be working with potentially infectious materials and.Ensuring all employees have been appropriately trained per this policy.Submitting manifests to Environmental Health and Safety.Paying invoices and appropriating cost allocations.Reviewing all documentation and signing manifests, only when authorized and appropriately trained.Providing employees for inner building transportation in buildings with central storage locations.Providing rigid, leak-proof, PIW containers in buildings with on-site central storage.The Biological Sciences Division (BSD), Physical Sciences Division (PSD), Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME), Social Science Division (SSD) and UChicago Wellness are responsible for: The removal of potentially infectious waste from the University of Chicago, University of Chicago Medicine, Animal Resource Center (ARC), and off-site locations shall be facilitated by a contracted service, which is licensed, bonded, and permitted by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA). All potentially infectious waste (PIW) generated at the University of Chicago shall be treated and/or disposed of in accordance with applicable regulations. ![]()
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