Animal Care and Ethics Training

This two day course provides an introduction to the ethical and scientific issues of using animals for scientific purposes as well as providing an introduction to animal handling and basic procedures in mice and rats.

Please email animalcare@unsw.edu.au for further details.

Next Course:  August/September 2020: online format

All face-to-face courses have been postponed indefinitely in line with the University’s directives. We are working hard in creating an online course. We will add your name to our list of interested participants and will send a notification email once the conduct of face-to-face courses has been re-instated or when the online courses are available.

Further event details

To register your interest, please complete the our expression of interest form and we will contact you as soon the the module becomes available.

A refresher course for those who have previously attended an Animal Care and Ethics Course.

This course will focus on the ethical use of animals in research and teaching as well as supporting animal wellbeing.

Next Course: September 2020: Online Format

All face-to-face courses have been postponed indefinitely in line with the University’s directives. We are working hard in creating an online course. We will add your name to our list of interested participants and will send a notification email once the conduct of face-to-face courses has been re-instated or when the online courses are available.

To register your interest, please complete the our expression of interest form and we will contact you as soon the the module becomes available.

For Honours and ILP students only.

Following completion of the Honours Course, if you are continuing with animal-based research/teaching beyond your Honours year, you are required to attend the second day of the 2-day Animal Care and Ethics Course. Please email animalcare@unsw.edu.au for further details.

Next course: February 2021.

Further event details

Registration is via SurveyMonkey.

Access the CARE Online Course

Individual and small group practical training in specific laboratory animal procedures are available on request to the RECS Animal Care Unit.  Please complete the following survey to register your interest https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/specialisedhandling and notify animalcare@unsw.edu.au.

The UNSW Poisons and Therapeutic Substances (S4D, S8, S9) course is now available online.

This course covers poisons and therapeutic substances (S4D, S8 and S9) purchase, use, storage and disposal and all UNSW personnel involved with any of these substances must successfully complete this course. Further information can be found at Poisons and Therapeutic Substances (S4D, S8 and S9). 

Previously the course was embedded within the 2-day face-to-face UNSW Animal Care & Ethics Courses, however RECS have made this available online as per the requirements of an audit conducted in 2018. As the content of the course have changed substantially regarding legislative and compliance requirements, including Schedule 4D (i.e. Sodium Pentobarbital), it is highly recommended that personnel using these substances complete the new online course. 

Registration is via myUNSW.

Select "My Staff Profile" and "Learning and Development" and choose "Course Number" and search for "RECSSD"

Once you have registered, you will receive an email notifying you if registration is successful. The course will be available 24 hours after registration on Moodle.

Please note that you will be required to complete a short assessment following this course.