EHS training raises the awareness of safe work practices, which is vital to prevent work-related injuries and keep Sun Devils safe. This webpage will assist with determining your training requirements and provide direct access to ASU Career EDGE for registration, enrollment and transcript history. Career EDGE is accessible to only users with an active employee affiliation.
Other ASU affiliation and non-employee volunteers must complete additional steps to gain system access. View the Visitors and volunteers tab for information.
Students are provided access to safety courses on Canvas. Enroll for courses under the Student training tab.
What training do I need?
Instructor-led courses
Transcript history
Employee training
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ASU Career EDGE enrollment - Locate the course below and select Enroll to self-enroll for the desired online curriculum. |
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Anesthetic gas safety — Enroll |
Fire safety — Enroll |
| Asbestos awareness — Enroll |
Hazard communication |
| ASU biosafety and bloodborne pathogens — Enroll |
Hazardous waste management — Enroll |
| ASU Community of Care training — Enroll | Hazmat and dangerous goods receiving for non-lab personnel — Enroll |
| ASU pyrophorics safety training — Enroll | Hearing conservation training — Enroll |
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Authorized driver training — Enroll |
Hot work safety awareness — Enroll |
| Autoclave safety training — Enroll | Hydrofluoric acid safety — Enroll |
| Automated external defibrillator, or AED awareness — Enroll | Incident investigation and report preparation — Enroll |
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Bloodborne pathogens general awareness — Enroll |
Laboratory safety |
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Bloodborne pathogen training for ASU daycare centers — Enroll |
Ladder safety — Enroll |
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Bloodborne pathogen training for ASU Facilities Management trade-specific — Enroll |
Liquid nitrogen safety — Enroll |
| Bloodborne pathogen training for ASU Health Services — Enroll | Machine shop safety — Enroll |
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Bloodborne pathogen training for ASU residence halls — Enroll |
NIH Guidelines — Enroll |
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Bloodborne pathogen training for ASU Police Department — Enroll |
Office safety — Enroll |
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Bloodborne pathogen training for ASU Sun Devil Fitness — Enroll |
PAPR — Enroll |
| Compactor safety — Enroll | Radiation safety for ASU Police — Enroll |
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Compressed gas — Enroll |
Respirable crystalline silica training — Enroll |
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Cranes, hoists and slings — Enroll |
Respiratory determination — Enroll |
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Dry ice shipper — Enroll |
Respiratory protection — Enroll |
| EHS ACIC Makerspace safety training — Enroll | Roof access — Enroll |
| Ergonomics for offices — Enroll | Strains and sprains awareness training — Enroll |
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Ergonomics for DACT — Enroll |
Supervisor safety training — Enroll |
| Fighting heat stress — Enroll | |
Life safety
ASU offers AED and CPR certification courses to support assistance in a medical emergency. Read more about AEDs.
CPR awareness
A one-hour CPR orientation, including a lecture covering the signs and symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest. An interactive, hands-on training to perform CPR on an adult, child and infant. This class does not meet the qualifications for CPR certification.
Audience: Recommended for all non-campus health professional employees
Experience level: Beginner
Cost: Free
Register with asuevents.asu.edu
Stop the Bleed™
This one-hour class explains best practices for how to control and stop bleeding. Participants gain an understanding of safe practices for helping someone who is bleeding while protecting themselves. This combined lecture and hands-on course provide opportunities to practice packing wounds and applying a tourniquet.
Audience: Recommended for all employees
Experience level: Beginner
Cost: Free
Register with asuevents.asu.edu
Life-safety certifications
Basic first aid
The three-hour basic first aid class teaches participants how to recognize when someone needs medical assistance. The scenario-based examples explore how to treat someone using first aid.
Audience: Recommended for all personnel
Experience level: Beginner and recertification
Certification: Two-year first aid certification
Cost: $30 per person
Register with asuevents.asu.edu
Basic life support
The four-hour class is designed for healthcare professionals and covers the recognition, treatment and care of sudden cardiac arrest patients. Participants receive coaching on how to perform CPR properly on adults, children and infants. Students also learn to properly perform abdominal thrust and how to properly put a patient in the recovery position. The class also covers the use of a bag and valve mask and oxygen delivery.
Audience: Recommended for healthcare professionals and recertification
Experience level: New healthcare professional and recertification
Certification: Two-year certification
Cost: $50 per person
Register with asuevents.asu.edu
CPR and AED
Participants who pass this class receive a two-year CPR certification card from the American Safety and Health Institute. The three-hour class details how to recognize sudden cardiac arrest, the proper performance of CPR on an adult, child and infant and covers how to perform abdominal thrust on someone who is choking.
Audience: Recommended for all personnel
Experience level: Beginner and recertification
Certification: Two year CPR certification
Cost: $30 per person
Register with asuevents.asu.edu
Sun Devil Fitness Centers also offers CPR and AED and first aid certification. View upcoming training dates and read more about certification on the SDFC webpage.
New employee info
On behalf of the Department of Environmental Health and Safety, welcome to Arizona State University. ASU strives to promote and maintain a safe and healthy environment for the University community and its employees. To facilitate such an environment, employees are required to attend certain mandated safety training depending upon specific job classification or duties.
Completion of the Fire Safety training is required for all employees upon hire and annually after that. Also, due to the specific nature of your position or duties, completion of additional training classes may be required before the assignment of work duties. Please consult the Training Determination Tool for further requirements.
Health and safety training determination
To determine which safety training courses are required and recommended based on the work being performed, please consult the Training Determination Tool. Use this tool in consultation with your immediate supervisor concerning your work duties to determine and automatically create your training plan.
Please email us if you have any questions.
Special course request
By request, additional training arrangements can be scheduled for groups of six or more. For more information, contact the EHS Program Coordinator at 480-965-1823 or email EHS.
Biological safety
Biosafety classes by arrangement
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All instructor-led Biosafety and Biosecurity training sessions provided by arrangement.
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CDC select agent and toxin training sessions must be arranged.
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Email to schedule a class.
Radiation safety
Radiation producing equipment
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Required for individuals who want to procure, or need access, to analytical x-ray equipment, accelerators and other ionizing radiation-producing equipment. Topics include the ASU radiation safety organization with outside research partners, procurement, hazards, registration and surveys.
Radioactive material
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Required for people working at or visiting ASU who procure, use, or dispose of radioactive materials. Topics include procurement, accountability, instruments, surveys, hazards, disposal and emergency response.
Lasers
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Required for anyone working at or visiting ASU who will be operating Class IIIb or IV lasers.
To schedule radiation training, fill out the training request form.
Student training
Students who need to access EHS training for course work must register in Eventbrite for instructor-led training and enroll in Canvas for online training. Employees and volunteers must not access training on this page.
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Canvas online training enrollment - Locate the course below and self-enroll for the desired online curriculum. |
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| EHS ACIC Makerspace safety training | |
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Animal Biosafety |
Fighting heat stress |
| ASU autoclave training | Fire safety |
| ASU biosafety and bloodborne pathogen training | Hazard communication for the arts |
| ASU pyrophorics safety training | Hazardous waste management |
| Automated external defibrillator, or AED awareness | Hearing conservation training |
| Biosafety and bloodborne pathogen training for ASU Student Health Outreach for Wellness Program | S.H.O.W. | Laboratory safety |
| Bloodborne pathogen general awareness | Machine shop safety |
| NIH recombinant and synthetic nucleic acids |
Visitors and volunteers
Visitors and volunteers are welcome to participate in EHS offered training. In some cases, ASU sponsors may require it. Non-employee ASU affiliations, including volunteers and visitors, must complete additional steps to obtain sub-affiliate status and a Career EDGE security role. Once Career EDGE access is granted, you may visit the Employee training tab to self-enroll. If still unable to access the desired training system, please submit a Service Now ticket.
Department personnel, such as sponsors, managers and volunteer coordinators should work with the department HR liaison to obtain sub-affiliate and security role, per this knowledge article, for those who must complete the training in Career EDGE.
Additional forms and information
Volunteers and minors may have additional forms that are required before completing the training.
Visitors to ASU
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Instead of completing EHS training, visiting employees or scholars from other universities or organizations may submit equivalent training transcripts from their home university to EHS.
Volunteers at ASU
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To determine the courses required and to register for the required safety courses by job function, access the ASU EHS Training Determination Tool.
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Volunteers in research labs are required to receive lab-specific safety training from their sponsors.
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Volunteer supervisors must initiate the volunteer registration process through the Volunteers website.
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Volunteers working at the direction of a university employee for official university activity are provided insurance coverage for liability for acts and omissions by state law but not workman's compensation in compliance with the EHS 705-08: University Volunteer Insurance Coverage policy.
Minors in the laboratory
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Before making training arrangements, the minor must be approved to enter ASU buildings or laboratories by completing the Request for minor access to ASU buildings or laboratories form.
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Minors must complete the specified training before entering a laboratory. The specified training is communicated upon completion of the approval process per the EHS 116: Minors in Laboratories policy.
