An Advanced Interactive laboratory safety course delivering 20 bench-hazard interactions and 6 validated competencies across chemical incompatibility, fume hood use, spills, and exposure controls. Lab safety is practised at the bench rather than read off a wall poster.
Laboratory safety awareness for everyone who works in or near a laboratory — research, quality-control, academic, clinical, environmental and industrial labs. It assumes WHMIS as its prerequisite and does not re-teach how to read a label or a safety data sheet; as the closing course of the Chemical & Process Safety family it brings together, at the bench, the incompatibles of…
Equip everyone who works in or near a laboratory to understand that a lab keeps them safe on routine rather than luck — because daily familiarity with hazards is itself the danger, and the shortcut taken "just this once" is the one that finds them — so that…
Lab technicians, researchers, and students working with chemicals, biological agents, and lab equipment in Manitoba facilities.
Passing the final test issues a QR-verified certificate, valid for one year.
This certificate records completion of awareness-level knowledge training in laboratory safety. It does not authorize the holder to work at the bench in any particular laboratory. Before the work, the employer must confirm the worker is competent in that lab — the fume hood and its marked sash height, the glove material the chemicals in use require, and the location and use of the eyewash, safety shower, spill kit and fire equipment — and the safety data sheet and the laboratory's own written procedures always govern. This training does not create a Chemical Hygiene Officer designation, a laboratory-safety or chemical-hygiene competency certification, or HAZWOPER, biosafety or radiation-safety competency, which are separate training tiers.
About 1 hour online, over 5 modules, at your own pace. It ends with a final test that needs 80% to pass.
One year from the day you pass. Orientra’s standard is for laboratory-safety training to be reviewed at least annually and whenever the chemicals, equipment, processes or the lab itself change.
Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act (C.C.S.M. c. W210); Manitoba WSH Regulation MR 217/2006; WHMIS 2015 / GHS; and 4 more listed on this page.
This certificate records completion of awareness-level knowledge training in laboratory safety. It does not authorize the holder to work at the bench in any particular laboratory. Before the work, the employer must confirm the worker is competent in that lab — the fume hood and its marked sash height, the glove material the chemicals in use require, and the location and use of the eyewash, safety shower, spill kit and fire equipment — and the safety data sheet and the laboratory's own written procedures always govern. This training does not create a Chemical Hygiene Officer designation, a laboratory-safety or chemical-hygiene competency certification, or HAZWOPER, biosafety or radiation-safety competency, which are separate training tiers.