Three Steps to Safety

1- Prepare
2- React
3- Report

This webpage collects links to the most basic information as it applies to our labs.
To learn more, please go to UofT's Environmental Health & Safety website.



1- Before an Accident: Get Appropriate Training to Prevent Accidents

    A- General Health & Safety Training

Slips, Trips and Falls

These are still the most common cause of accidents, and the easiest to avoid if you follow these instructions to access the online course


Get General Health & Safety Orientation

Access the 30-minute online course using these instructions

Workplace Hazardous Materials

E-mail the organizers and read the description of the two-hour WHMIS Seminar, or read UofT's WHMIS Publication online


Electrical Safety

E-mail the organizers and check the description for the 4-hour course

  B- Lasers

Laser Safety Training

If you work near Lasers, you must register for Laser Safety Training

Every three years, take the Online Refresher Course

Documents 

 C- Cryogenics

Training

E-mail the organizers and check the online description for the 1.5-hour course

Tips

Read useful tips on the website of UofT's Physics Department

Generic Guidelines

Understand the dangers by browsing these subpages of the UofT Environmental Health & Safety website

Detailed Standards

Read a PDF with specific instructions from UofT Environmental Health & Safety



2- During an Accident: Contact the Right People to Get Help

  Emergency Information

Send for someone with First Aid/CPR training

Lillian Lanca: Room AB101-A, (416-94)6-5243

Register online for the next Free UofT two-day First Aid course, and have your name listed here


Emergency Contacts

UofT Police Campus Emergency Centre: (416-97)8-2222, or Emergency Call Box besides Room AB65

Metro Toronto Emergency Phone Number: (9) 911

TDD Telephone for the Deaf Only: (416-97)8-7385

For Mobility-Impaired persons: (416-97)8-2222

First Aid Kits

2nd Floor:
AB201 (Astro Lounge)

1st Floor:
AB101-J (Mail Room), inside tall closet

Basement:
AB52 (Dae-Sik Moon's Lab)
AB73-B (Lab with crane and workshop)
AB79 (Planetarium)

Eyewash station: in basement of AB (outside lab AB60 and inside lab AB73)

Fire

Call Fire Protection Officer: (416-97)8-5299 (215 Huron Street, 7th Floor)

When the fire alarm sounds:
Evacuate immediately, stay away from building until expliclty instructed to enter.

3- After the Accident: Fill the Legal Forms

  Report as Required by Law and University Policy

Phone all of the following services immediately

UofT Police: (416-97)8-2222

UofT Occupational Hygiene and Safety: (416-97)8-b7b7

Ministry of Labour: 416-235-5330

File an accident report within 24 hours

For employees: fill this form online

For students, post-doctoral fellows or visitors: fill this other form online