- Site Visitors will tour animal care and use spaces
- Vivaria & support spaces
- PI Lab spaces & satellite facilities
- Site Visitors will ask to read protocols
- Continue normal laboratory activities
- Site Visitors want to talk with you:
- The site visitors often talk with lab members; be willing to engage with the site visitors
- Site visitors understand that you may be conducting research and cannot stop the activity. Offering a different lab member or a different time to talk are alternatives.
- Talk about your research!
- Site Visitors will most likely ask
- What types of activities are conducted in the lab, where, and how are they conducted
- Are you aware of institutional policies
- Are you conducting compliant, ethical, and humane animal research
- Read through the list of “Questions that may be asked by an AAALAC Site Visitor"
- Answer the question(s) that was asked and feel free to ask for clarification or to have the question repeated.
- Know that they are here to help
(note: RIA and LAR representatives will always be present; feel free to ask for help!)
- Site Visitors will look at records, drugs, and equipment
- Are the required documents completed, accurate, legible
- Are there any expired drugs, substances, materials present and/or in use
- Is the equipment clean, sanitized, validated, certified and are these documented, accessible, legible