Checklist for New Students, Post-Doctoral Fellows & Staff
- Read and familiarize yourself with the most current version of your laboratory's Administrative Panel for Laboratory Animal Care (APLAC) protocol before you begin working with animals.
- See your lab manager and add your name to your lab's APLAC protocol.
- Familiarize with the APLAC Guidelines
- Familiarize with Stanford University Policies.
- Learn more about laboratory animal occupational risks
- Enroll in the Laboratory Occupational Health and Safety Program (LAOHP).
- Learn about and enroll in the Lab Partners Program.
- Understand logistics and proper methods of working with laboratory animals.
- Obtain facility orientation and cardkey access to the animal facility and access to your specific animal rooms.
- Visit animal facility and meet your animal room caretaker and supervisor.
- Familiarize yourself with AnimalTrax online animal census management.
- Proper dress code.
- Receive appropriate training for your procedure(s) before you begin working with animals.
- Enroll in the required online Animal Care and Use Training
- Review “What Training Do I Need?” for additional required and recommended training
- Enroll in the required online Animal Care and Use Training
Updated September 28, 2020