Animal Care Technician
Competency-based
ONET: 31-9096.00
1
Years
114
Skills
164h
Related instructions
Classroom instruction topics
- Orientation
- Standard Operating Procedures Review
- Laboratory Animal Sciences
- Conditioning
- Environmental Health and Safety online training
- Biomethods I
- Biomethods Competency
- Biomethods II
- Biomethods III
- Biomethods IV
- MOD 1 Quiz and Progress
- Breeder Brief
- MOD 2 Quiz and Progress
- Rotation Class
- MOD 3 Quiz and Progress
- Department exposure I
- Department exposure II
- Department exposure III
- ALAT Certification
On-the-job training
- MOD1 - Perform efficient PPE don and doff
- Demonstrate proper PEEL entry/exit
- Demonstrate proper bathroom procedures
- MOD1 - Perform chemical mixing
- Usage of proper PPE
- Perform mixing, testing, labeling
- Perform expiration, disposal, replacement
- Proper preparation wet task bucket
- MOD1 - Demonstrate appropriate use of airlocks and MEEL
- Receive clean materials, record quantities
- Proper labelling, prepping, sending soiled materials
- Receive internal shipping containers
- MOD1 - Perform Animal Handling with care and respect
- Demonstrate proper movement of mice with care and respect; adults
- Describe colony details after review strain data sheets
- Perform accurate sexing
- Demonstrate consistent and accurate counting
- MOD1 - Perform proper Cage changing procedures
- Demonstrate weaning cage change procedures
- Perform pen splits and combinations according to procedure
- Calculate skip date properly each week
- Perform proper water bottle placement
- Identify different types of grain, label appropriately and maintain grain levels in cages
- MOD1 - Demonstrate attention to Animal Welfare
- Perform welfare checks and recognize animals in distress Peform mouse trap check
- Perform animal welfare check
- Recognize abnormal mice
- Describe proper placement and change procedures for enrichment
- Demonstrate detailed cage card annotations and digital data entry (inventory and adjustments) Describe pen combining and density limits
- MOD1 - Perform Sanitation
- Perform lunch time clean up
- Perform end of day clean up
- Perform PEEL clean up
- MOD1 - Demonstrate Attention to Safety
- Perform safe stepladder use
- Perform team lift
- Demonstrate safe handling/movement of materials participate in stretching
- Demonstrate proper table ergonomics
- Demonstrate proper cage lift (if applicable)
- Perform proper unconvering sterile supplies
- MOD1 - Demonstrate effective Teamwork and communication
- Perform accurate time entry
- Demonstrate fair usage of time and adherance to attendance policy
- Demonstrate professional communication: questions, concerns, issues with trainers/supers
- Demonstrate professional communication with co-workers: calls and emails
- Willingly participate in team duties
- MOD1 - Perform Proper euthanasia procedures for adults
- Demonstrate proper use of JAX ES
- House and label discard appropriately
- Properly complete euthanasia labels
- MOD2 - Perform Proper Cage Change Procedures (breeders)
- Participate in strain data/colony detail review
- Use wean chart/table card info properly
- Identify Non-productives
- Identify Wean ages and quotas (3 week vs. 4 week)
- Recognize and remove Pre-wean
- Describe and Identify Aging criteria for neonates
- Perform proper procedure pen-change/pen-check
- Demonstrate proper movement of mice; pre-adults and neonates
- Consistently double check shavings for mice before wash area
- Perform proper water bottle conservation
- Perform accurate sexing
- MOD2 - Demonstrate detailed cage card annotations and digital data entry (new litters and wean)
- Propery record wean (observing demands)
- Record new litters properly
- Record adjustments to pre-existing litters properly
- Properly Tag next week's wean
- MOD2 - Demonstrate proper euthanasia procedures for pre-adults
- Separetly house groups by age and properly label cages
- practice proper procedure for adult and pre-adult euthanasia
- Euthanasia labels filled out properly, including dwell times
- Perform secondary euthanasia methods as necessary
- MOD2 - Perform Sanitation and Biosecurity
- Perform monthly room sanitation
- Describe and follow room hierarchy
- MOD2 - Submit Accurate Reports
- Submit accurate sick and deviant mouse forms
- Recognize abnormal materials and submit accurate report
- MOD2 - Continue MOD 1 Practices
- Continue with MOD 1 Animal Welfare
- Continue with MOD 1 Workplace Safety
- Continue with MOD 1 time entry and attendance policy
- Continue with MOD 1 Teamwork and Communication
- Continue with MOD 1 Sanitation
- MOD3 - Perform proper colony maintenance and breeder rotation
- Understand and Perform retirement (units including females)
- Understand and Perform retirement (male breeders ahead)
- Understand and Perform routine make-up
- Understand and Perform red-line replacements
- Understand and Perform female replacements
- Understand and Perform colony maintenance for non-replacable holes (shifting units)
- Understand and Perform holdovers
- MOD3 - Continue with MOD 1 and 2 Practices
- Continue with MOD 1 Animal Welfare
- Continue with MOD 1 Workplace Safety
- Continue with MOD 1 time entry and attendance policy
- Continue with MOD 1 Teamwork and Communication
- Continue with MOD 1 and 2 Sanitation
- Conintue with MOD 2 Demonstrate breeder cage change procedures
- Continue with MOD 2 Demonstrate detailed cage card annotations and digital data entry (new litters and wean)
- Continue with MOD 2 Demonstrate proper euthanasia procedures for pre-adults
- MOD4 - Demonstrate proper preparation and packing of live animals for shipment
- Prints shipping prep report
- Charges boxes based on shipping guidelines
- Prepare and Pack external shipping boxes
- Prepare and Pack internal shipping boxes
- Ship palleted wean cages
- Count and confirm shipping
- Perform surplus discard
- MOD4 - Perform supervised Animal Health monitoring
- Saving mice for Pooled animal Health
- Shipping mice for pooled animal health
- Fecal sampling (max only)
- MOD4 - Perform sampling practices (with guidance required)
- Follow proper ear notching procedures
- Understand and use TGS database
- Describe differences between TGS/GQC
- Explain concept of confirming
- Follow proper procedures forsample collection/delivery
- MOD4 - Pedigree
- Understand heirarchy
- Identifies components of pedigree numbers
- Identifies component of generation numbers
- Plans and meets weekly colony requirements
- Correctly selects breeders by criteria
- Correctly carries out make-up data entry
- Performs proper rotation/retirement for Pedigreed units
- MOD4 - Continue with MOD 1, 2, and 3 Practices
- Continue with MOD 1 Animal Welfare
- Continue with MOD 1 Workplace Safety
- Continue with MOD 1 time entry and attendance policy
- Continue with MOD 1 Teamwork and Communication
- Continue with MOD 1 and 2 Sanitation
- Conintue with MOD 2 Demonstrate breeder cage change procedures
- Continue with MOD 2 Demonstrate detailed cage card annotations and digital data entry (new litters and wean)
- Continue with MOD 2 Demonstrate proper euthanasia procedures for pre-adults
- Continue with MOD 3 Perform proper colony maintenance and breeder rotation
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