Environmental Safety
Environmental Safety Development
InfoEd’s Environmental Safety Development module provides researchers with an online portal for preparing, submitting and tracking their safety plans. The easy to use software streamlines the administrative effort involved in submissions and offers useful new functionality for organizing research projects.
- Supports studies involving Radiation Safety, Biological Agents, Hazardous Chemicals; Genome Studies and RDNA.
- Organizations can flexibly design and maintain their own application form templates using InfoEd’s eForm technology. Data collection requirements can vary by submission type (e.g. initial applications; amendments; modifications; incident reports; etc.).
- InfoEd’s Auto-Fill utility can conveniently load standard personnel and organizational details into new eForms upon creation, reducing effort and improving data quality.
- eForm safety plans can be designed to respond interactively to researcher inputs. Study attributes that have regulatory or institutional implications can prompt supplemental questions or additional forms (e.g. Radioisotope or hazardous chemical? Animal subjects? Special containment? etc.).
- User-friendly interface with field level help, links to product manuals, and integrated email support.
- Upload supporting materials (e.g. science documents; material use certifications; Material Safety Data Sheets; etc.).
- Application documents are watermarked with safety plan status, board name, and date.
- Upon submission records are automatically checked for completeness. Incomplete records are disallowed with missing items highlighted.
- The module features an electronic routing and approval mechanism for departmental reviews, which then feeds the Environmental Safety Management module.
- When used in conjunction with InfoEd’s other compliance modules for human and animals studies, the system supports an interwoven cross-office workflow (e.g. a radioisotope use with animal subjects can be routed to both the animal use committee and the radiation safety board simultaneously).
- Environmental Safety captures the complete submission history of a study. The InfoEd study is in effect a file folder that contains an initial application and all subsequent submissions, with a complete communications history for each.
- Safety plan amendments and modifications can be conveniently cloned from the last submission so the researcher can focus solely on necessary changes, minimizing administrative burden.
- eForms can track changes so reviewers can readily compare and contrast a new submission against the currently approved version of the plan.
- New safety plans can be copied from existing records so researchers that focus on a narrow band of activity can leverage forms from previous efforts.