Safety Training 

The University of Toronto has a duty under both the common and the statute law to ensure a safe environment for all workers. For this reason, the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry provides safety training for all staff and students working in laboratories, and monitors all experimental activity in those labs. Staff and students have a parallel responsibility to avail themselves of the safety training provided by the Department, and to govern their laboratory behaviour accordingly. Those who do not are placing themselves and others in the vicinity in danger. The University is committed to minimizing or eliminating that danger.

All researchers (faculty, staff, and students), who have not attended their required Health & Safety training and successfully passed the exam, attended the annual WHMIS Refresher session as required or behaved in unsafe ways in a laboratory, can and will have lab privileges suspended by the Department's Chair on the recommendation of the Department's Health and Safety Co-Chair and/or the lab supervisor concerned. Students are reminded that such suspensions may well have academic consequences. Such consequences are the responsibility of the student concerned. If you have missed your required training session, please contact Leticia Gutierrez in the WB217 to get access to our online training material.

Available Departmental Safety Training: 

Please email Leticia Gutierrez (WB217) for link and login information to training portal.

• CHE2222 (for all new faculty, research staff, graduate students, post-docs, visiting researchers)
• Summer Student Training
• 2nd Year Undergrad Training
• 4th Year Undergrad Training 
• WHMIS Refresher:
• Review the Annual WHMIS Refresher Presentation
• View the video "Experimenting with Danger" provided by the Chemical Safety Board
• Write a brief Quiz covering the presentation and video (Minimum grade of 80% is required). Please email Leticia Gutierrez for the quiz.