RSC News

Safety Oversight Committee To: Administrative Officers, Deans, Department Chairs, Directors, Faculty, Principal Investigators, Vice Chancellors and Vice Provosts Dear Colleagues: Principal Investigators (PIs) of research laboratories that are ending their supervision of the laboratories, ...

Colleagues: please see the below communication from EH&S. August 22, 2023 Dear Research Community, You are invited to attend the 2023 Workshop on Laboratory Safety, hosted this year at UCLA! Please register soon, ...

The Office of Research Policy & Compliance (RPC) will be closed to external business from December 19, 2022 through January 2, 2023 for the Winter Holidays, reopening on Tuesday, January ...

We would like to inform you of a change that will be implemented in the MRSC/RDRC application in SafetyNet. Effective July 1, 2022, you will be required to manually enter ...

The Office of Research Policy & Compliance (RPC) will observe UCLA’s 2021-22 Winter Holiday Closure. At this time, we anticipate the Winter Closure to begin Saturday, December 18, 2021 and that ...

We are pleased to announce that SafetyNet, the online system used by the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) and Radiation Safety Committees (RSC), will undergo a major update this coming weekend. ...

The Office of Research Administration (ORA) will observe UCLA’s 2020-21 Winter Holiday Closure. ORA will be closed beginning Saturday, December 19, 2020 and will reopen on Monday, January 4, 2021. ...

After several months of working with multiple stakeholder groups, we are pleased to announce the launch of the new Radiation Use Authorization (RUA) online system in SafetyNet. This new system will replace the existing paper ...

The Office of Research Administration (ORA) will observe UCLA’s 2019-20 Winter Holiday Closure. ORA will be closed beginning Saturday, December 21, 2019 and will reopen on Thursday, January 2, 2020. Please ...

The following announcement is shared with you on behalf of the Medical Radiation Safety Committee (MRSC) and Radioactive Drug Research Committee (RDRC): Continuing Review: As mentioned during the launch of the New ...

The Office Research Administration (ORA) will observe UCLA’s 2018-19 Winter Holiday Closure. ORA will be closed beginning Saturday, December 22, 2018 and will reopen on Wednesday, January 2, 2019. Please be ...

The following announcements are shared with you on behalf of the Medical Radiation Safety Committee (MRSC) and Radioactive Drug Research Committee (RDRC): New Online System (SafetyNet) After several months of working with ...

Laboratory safety is important to all of us at UCLA. A culture of safety is not only essential to the successful and responsible conduct of research, but also to our ...

In 2009, the Office of Animal Research Oversight (OARO) was established following dissolution of the Office for Protection of Research Subjects. With the creation of OARO, the ARC administrative staff ...

The Memo below is for All Clinical Researchers Conducting Research Involving Radiation

With the recent adoption of federal regulations governing the medical use of radioactive material, the Radiation Safety Committee (RSC) would like to remind all clinical users of radioactive material of ...

Vice Chancellor for Research James Economou sent a Deans and Directors Memo on May 1, 2012 regarding the reorganization of UCLA’s Radiation Safety Program and summary of goals for the ...

Regulatory guidance went into effect December 12, 2011 regarding positron emission tomography (PET) radiopharmaceuticals used in clinical and research procedures. As of that date, production of PET radiopharmaceuticals must comply ...

At the request of Vice Chancellor for Research James Economou, the Radiation Safety Committee and subcommittees underwent reorganization in 2011 in order to better fulfill UCLA’s regulatory obligations and to ...