Lab & Research Safety
The Office of Safety provides services and recommendations to all the departments and researchers at UND.
The primary objective of the UND Office of Safety is to ensure a safe working environment for faculty, staff, students, volunteers, and visitors. In search of this goal, our office ensures that laboratory facilities and operations conform to the regulatory requirements as set by the UND Institutional Biosafety committee, UND Institutional Animal Control and Use Committee, the North Dakota Department of Health, and federal agencies (CDC, NIH, OSHA, etc).
Safety Topics & Resources
About Lab & Research Safety
To mitigate the inherent risks associated with the laboratory setting, we seek to build a culture of safe work practices at the university. Our office provides several teaching resources to those involved in laboratory and research activities in the form of classroom and online training sessions as well as informational modules found within this website.
Our office also seeks to facilitate collaborative outreach between investigators at the UND and the larger academic community. To this end, we provide support and training for all areas of shipping of biological materials. Finally, our office provides a route to properly dispose of both hazardous and regulated medical wastes through our contracted disposal servicer.
By making these resources available, it is our goal to put measures into place to make our students, employees, and the environment safer from hazards found in laboratories across campus.