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Environmental Health and Safety Office

Don’t let pandemic fatigue increase your risk in labwork

May 20, 2021 — 
The biosafety program would like to remind laboratory personnel that the materials and procedures you are working with come with risks. Proper procedure, risk assessments and safety measures for research projects protect the worker and so it is important to continue to be diligent with implementing safety practices and protocols. A hazard is still a hazard.

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Environmental Health and Safety Office

Meet your Safety Superheroes: Vanessa Pinto, Biological Safety Specialist

August 1, 2019 — 
Spillin' the Safe-Tea: Meet Vanessa Pinto, the Biological Safety Specialist at the University of Manitoba

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Environmental Health and Safety Office

Meet your Safety Superheroes: Steven Cole, Animal Care Occupational Health Specialist & Biosafety Officer

June 28, 2019 — 
Meet Steven Cole, the Animal Care Occupational Health Specialist & Institutional Biosafety Officer in Environmental Health and Safety.

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Environmental Health and Safety Office

Changes to the Biosafety Program

November 20, 2018 — 
To reduce the administrative work for the release of grant and contract funds, the old Biosafety Project Approval Certificates (BPAC) will now be combined with Biosafety Permits in a simplified system.

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