EHS

Instructional Courses for Canvas

 

Safety Training for Students in Courses

CSUN is focused on ensuring that students understand the basic principles of working with hazardous materials and hazardous equipment. 

Based on feedback from departments and instructors, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) has developed a Canvas module for each college which can be incorporated into existing courses and is an effective and easy paperless method for fulfilling safety training.

Canvas modules have been designed for each of the colleges unique needs and include video training and an acknowledgement that records student participation. Canvas will automatically retain the training records, so retention requirements will be met with no further actions needed by the instructor. Below, you will find the titles of the canvas modules for each of the colleges.

  • College of Math and Science Safety Training for Students Enrolled in a Campus Activity or Laboratory
  • College of Health and Human Development for Students Enrolled in a Campus Activity or Laboratory
  • Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication for Students Enrolled in a Campus Activity or Shop
  • College of Engineering and Computer Science for Students Enrolled in a Campus Activity or Shop

Departments that have their own safety training are encouraged to complement their material with the EHS Canvas module to facilitate the tracking of student compliance and to standardize record keeping amongst departments.

Requirements

Instructional courses using hazardous materials or equipment must import the college specific safety training module into their Canvas course and require students to complete the module.

How to import the Canvas module?

Follow the instructions on this guideline: Importing the EHS training module into your Canvas course.

Auditing Process

At the end of every semester, courses involving the use of hazardous materials or equipment will be audited by a member of EHS in cooperation with Information Technology (IT). The purpose of this audit is to evaluate whether the Canvas safety training modules for instructional courses was incorporated into the course and to assess the number of course registered students that completed the survey at the end of the module (as an indicator that the safety training module was completed). No additional information will be collected. Once this information is gathered, IT will remove EHS access to the course. 

By facilitating the auditing process, we are not only complying with the observations of the CSU and State of California auditors, but most importantly, we are improving our efforts to keep students safe.