Introduction
All AFM users MUST receive introductory training on any system before using it. Current users must not train new users. Please see the training link for further information.
Before training commences the PI for the user must sign the AFM user agreement form and the user must also undertake the LCN health and safety course which is run every Tuesday at 10am for approximately 1.5 hours. The AFM facility manager can register new users to the health and safety course. Once the course is finished the user will have access to the front door of the building but not to the AFM lab. Once satisfactory training on the AFM has taken place, the user will be asked to read and sign off the instrument risk assessment where upon he/she will be given lab and booking system access. Additional risk assessment may be required depending on the sample properties, for example GM organisms. It is the user and the PI's responsibility to ensure that a RiskNet form has been completed, assessed and approved before ANY work can commence on the AFM systems. GM forms in particular take many weeks before approval is given.