Occupational Health & Safety Program for Animal Contact

• General Information

  The Occupational Health and Safety Program at OSU-CHS is intended to fulfill and manage the institution’s responsibility to provide a safe workplace for faculty, staff, students, and visitors.

   

  All individuals who have access to the vivarium are required to enroll in the program. You have been identified as someone who needs to enroll due to having access to live animals, carcasses, unfixed tissues, blood, body fluids, or waste.

   

  OSU CHS Animal Care and Use Handbook

• New Members

  Please follow the instructions and complete the enrollment forms. Please be advised that all health records are maintained confidentially. They are not shared beyond the occupational health office.

  Email
  
   chsstudhealth@okstate.edu for enrollment

  Enrollment form

  Medical questionnaire

• Current Members
  Current members should complete the annual enrollment form as requested by the Compliance Department. 
  Please be advised that all health records are maintained confidentially. They are not shared beyond the Compliance Department.
  
  Email all questions and forms to: chsstudhealth@okstate.edu 
• Who should enroll?

  All faculty, staff, students, volunteers, IACUC members, and non-OSU collaborators who meet one of the following criteria are required to enroll in the OSU CHS Animal Care and Use Occupational Health Program:

  • are listed as personnel on an Animal Care and Use Protocol
  • are involved in the care and/or use of live, vertebrate animals in research, testing, or teaching
  • work with animal carcasses, unfixed tissues, blood, body fluids, or waste
  • need access to the OSU CHS vivarium
  • serve as an IACUC member
• Instructions for Enrollment:
  Follow the instructions for initial enrollment here or read through the instructions below.
• Items need for enrollment:

  Please fill out the Initial Enrollment form thoroughly.

  1. Fill out the Animal, Biological, Chemical, and Radioactive Material Questionnaire

  2. If you will be working with animals or animal products, then provide documentation of Tdap immunization. Tdap should be administered every 10 years.

  3. If you will be working with human or non-human primate tissues, blood, or products, provide documentation of Hep B vaccine or titer.

• Where to send documents (3 options):

  You can email the forms/immunization records to chsstudhealth@okstate.edu.

   

  You can bring them in person to our office at 2345 SW BLVD, Tulsa Ok., 2nd floor, Compliance suite.

   

  You can fax them to our office at 918-561-1248. Please include a cover letter with your name.

• Appointment Needs:

  If you need to book an appointment for an updated Hep B vaccine/titer or Tdap, please use this link: https://www.picktime.com/chsoccupationalstudenthealthappt

   

  Vaccines are administered at: 2345 SW BLVD, Tulsa, OK 74107 – 2nd floor of the compliance department.

• Questions can be directed to:

  chsstudhealth@okstate.edu