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Requirements for Grant Certifications
Occupational Health and Safety
Researchers
may be required to receive a signed certification from the DOHS verifying
that their research will be conducted in accordance with all applicable
federal, state and local regulations pertaining to safety and/or
environmental protection. The following requirements must be satisfied
prior to obtaining the certification from the DOHS:
All
research personnel must be current with applicable training as
provided by the DOHS and their PI. At a minimum this includes Chemical
Hygiene Plan and Chemical Waste Management training. It may also include
Biological safety, Radiation safety, Laser safety, HF safety, compressed
gas safety, etc. Refer to Safety
Training for
training requirements and options.
The
research group must be up to date with facility inspections as
required by their safety committee. All inspections must demonstrate that
compliance is attained in each applicable facility. Refer to
Quarterly Facility Inspections for
information about required
facility and laboratory inspections.
Research
facilities will be subject to a spot inspection by DOHS to
evaluate the level of compliance with applicable regulations. All items
of non-compliance noted must be addressed as indicated.
Any
permits that need to be obtained subsequent to the acceptance of the
project by the granting agency must be provided to the DOHS.
Failure
to adhere to the above requirements will result in refusal to
provide the certification as required by the grant or revocation of an
existing certification and subsequent communication to the granting
agency.
Please plan to allow as much time as possible to address the above
requirements prior to receiving your certification. The time required
will be subject to the availability of OHS staff to conduct a spot
inspection and at a minimum 24 hours to 48 hours for lab personnel to
complete web-based training if required. A good rule of thumb would be a
two week minimum advance notice of the need to have a signed certification
unless you have recently completed the requirements for another
grant.
Questions
regarding the grant procedures at the University of
Delaware should
be directed to Robin Elliott at relliott@udel.edu or call
831-1435.
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