If you work in a laboratory with potentially hazardous chemicals, you must according to OSHA federal law (29 CFR 1910.1450) and MIT policy, receive both general and lab specific chemical hygiene training. This web-based course, meets the requirements for general chemical hygiene training. Lab specific training is provided in most cases by your Principal Investigator/Supervisor (EHS Represenative) or in limited cases by your Chemical Hygiene Officer or EHS Coordinator. The OSHA law also requires that a Chemical Hygiene Plan be written for your Department, Lab, or Center and that you review it before beginning work with potentially hazardous chemicals. If you have any questions about this web-based course, lab-specific chemical hygiene training, your chemical hygiene plan, or chemical handling procedures, call EHS at 2-3477 or email us at environment@mit.edu.

It takes about 90 minutes to complete this web-based course. You can start and stop as many times as you like without having to repeat course material. There are 8 sections to the course with a quiz after 7 of those sections. You must achieve an 80 percent or higher on all quizzes for successful completion of the course. You can take a quiz as many times as necessary.