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What Every Researcher Needs to Know about the AAALAC Site Visit

What Every Researcher Needs to Know about the AAALAC Site Visit. February 2008. The University of Minnesota voluntarily applies to AAALAC for accreditation of our animal care and use program The UMN is dedicated to the highest standards for animal welfare

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What Every Researcher Needs to Know about the AAALAC Site Visit

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  1. What Every Researcher Needs to Know about the AAALAC Site Visit February 2008

  2. The University of Minnesota voluntarily applies to AAALAC for accreditation of our animal care and use program • The UMN is dedicated to the highest standards for animal welfare • The UMN is dedicated to the highest standards for occupational health and safety of individuals working with animals • AAALAC site visitors will tour the UMN campuses February 18-21, 2008

  3. Program Description • The UMN has provided AAALAC with an extensive program description which includes detailed information about: • Animal care and use policies and responsibilities; • Animal environment, housing and management; • Veterinary medical care; • Physical plant. • Occupational Health and Safety Programs

  4. Inspections will include • Animal housing areas—Research Animal Resource (RAR) managed and Investigator Managed Housing Areas (IMHAs) • Animal labs and procedure rooms • Inspectors will be accompanied by UMN veterinary and compliance staff

  5. What’s New? • The UMN has established and invested significantly in a system-wide occupational health and safety office and has intensified efforts for ensuring occupational health and safety since the last AAALAC site visit • Policies have been clarified with respect to record keeping and oversight of investigator managed housing areas • Additional educational materials are available for all researchers

  6. How to prepare for the site visit • Familiarize yourself and all research staff with the requirements for proper animal care and use • Ensure that all staff involved in animal care and use are enrolled in the Occupational Health Program (ROHP). • Follow the information in the IACUC Tip Sheets for proper procedures • Ensure that all research personnel understand what PPE is appropriate for their work.

  7. Steps to ensure success: • Maintain sufficient post procedural monitoring. Animals should be closely monitored after procedures until they are fully recovered from anesthesia. The first 12 hours after a procedure is especially critical. Monitoring should be recorded. Wound clips or skin sutures should be removed after 10-14 days. • Maintain adequate record keeping practices. Records should be complete, legible and accessible. Records should be kept for procedures, surgery, intra-operative, post-operative, and post-procedural monitoring and care. • Ensure that waste anesthetic gases are properly scavenged. Scavenge anesthetic gases using a dedicated system or through building exhaust. • Vaporizers should be serviced annually and the date recorded.

  8. Steps: • Ensure proper sanitation. Animal housing areas, surgeries, surfaces and equipment should be cleaned and sanitized regularly. Post a cleaning and sanitation schedule, and record dates of actions. All animal use areas should be neat and free of clutter. • Maintain up to date protocols and cage cards. Protocols cannot be performed once expired. Cage cards with expired protocol numbers should be updated. • House animals with proper permission and documentation. Housing animals outside the central facilities must be approved by the IACUC. • Assure proper sharps disposal. Sharps should be disposed of in proper sharps containers. Containers should not be overfilled. • Use only current drugs and supplies. Outdated drugs and supplies should be identified and disposed of appropriately.. • Consistently use personal protective equipment (PPE) use. PPE is the last defense against work place hazards. Uniforms, scrubs, or laboratory coats should be worn as indicated. These clothes should not be worn in public places. • Secured gas tanks. All gas tanks should be secured. Unsecured gas tanks are an injury hazard to people and animals. • Source: AAALAC International

  9. More information is available: Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC): http://www.research.umn.edu/iacuc/guidelines/ Research Animal Resources (RAR): http://www.ahc.umn.edu/rar/index.html Occupational Health and Safety: http://www.ohs.umn.edu/

  10. Thank you For your continued dedication to the excellence of our programs and for your cooperation with the inspections.

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