Training Needs Assessment

Before starting, make sure you have an MIT Certificate on the machine you are using.

Training Needs Assessment

 * 1) Go to the MIT EHS Training Homepage
 * 2) Select I need to complete the Training Needs Assessment and hit Submit.
 * 3) On EHS Training Needs Assessment Step 1
 * 4) *Verify the information from your certificate is correct
 * 5) **If correct - proceed to next page by selecting Continue
 * 6) **If incorrect - follow the directions on the page to correct info
 * 7) EHS Training Needs Assessment Step - Set your Principal Investigator or Supervisor
 * 8) *Select Drew Endy from the list of faculty that appears (under E).
 * 9) *Select Update PI/Supervisor
 * 10) *Select Continue.
 * 11) EHS Training Needs Assessment Step 3 - Check your activities that have training implications
 * 12) *To prevent you from reading the entire list, check/select the following two (and only those two) items from the list you see:
 * 13) **In Potential Activities Based on Your PI/Supervisor Affiliations
 * 14) ***Select item 1, which says: Use potentially hazardous chemicals in a laboratory (this includes even common chemicals such as oil, solvents, paints, alcohol, acetone, etc). This option is also the first item listed in Group 1 - Chemical Safety.
 * 15) ***Select item 2, which says: Use Biological materials requiring BL1 or BL2 containment, or use recombinant DNA/RNA requiring BL1 or BL2 containment. This option is also the first item listed in Group 2S - Biological Safety and and Bloodborne Pathogens.
 * 16) ***If and only if you know you will definitely be working with Radioactivity, then also select item 3 which says: Use radioactive materials.  Otherwise omit this step.  This option is also the first item listed in Group 3 - Ionizing Radiation Sources: Radioactive Materials;Radiation Producing Equipment.
 * 17) *Select Confirm activities and continue
 * 18) Summary Page
 * 19) *Verify the information at the top of the page is correct.
 * 20) *When you scroll down you will see the list of training requirements you need to fulfill including Classroom Training and Web Training.
 * 21) *Note that when you go to the MIT EHS Training Homepage and select "I need to complete the Training Needs Assessment" it will automatically send you to the My EHS Training—Summary Page.

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