Research Safety Compliance Form Submission

Please Note:

With effect from 17 September 2024, all new project risk assessments to NUS (i) Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), (ii) Institutional Laboratory Safety Committee (ILSC), (iii) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine BSL3 Biosafety Committee (BBC), and (iv) Duke-NUS ABSL3 Biosafety Committee (ABC) must be submitted through iRIMS-IBC (Hazard Safety) for project risk assessments requiring approval by these safety committees.

Click here to access iRIMS-IBC (Hazard Safety).

Approved OSHE Forms in Integrated Online Research Compliance system (iORC) from 2018 to 2024 have been migrated to iRIMS-IBC (Hazard Safety). Principal Investigators may submit amendments of these previously approved protocols in iRIMS-IBC (Hazard Safety).

Approved OSHE Forms prior to 2018 in iORC are still available for view/download until 1 January 2029 in iORC. For past applications that been approved in the iORC prior to 2018, please submit a new application in iRIMS-IBC (Hazard Safety) and quote the previously approved iORC Ref. No.

1	Introduction
	The Workplace Safety and Health Act (Risk Management) Regulations, enforced by the Ministry of Manpower require, all principal investigators (PIs) and academic laboratory supervisors to develop and implement a safety management system for their lab-based or/and field research activities. PIs (not certified under the Laboratory OHS certification scheme) who are starting new research grants are required to conduct risk assessment to identify the safety and health risks associated with the project and then update/forward to ORMC for review and final approval by Institutional Laboratory Safety Committee (ILSC) or Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC). IBC approves life science related research projects and ILSC approves non-life science related projects. PIs awarded certification to the Laboratory OHS certification scheme need not submit individual project risk assessments for new grant-based projects. However, PIs must notify ORMC of new projects and submit the Lab certification form to apply for the release of funds for the new projects. If their project involves animal work and/or the use of regulated agents, they would also need to submit additional forms.
2	Integrated Online Research Compliance (iORC) system iORC system is also accessible via the Staff & Student Portal To access iORC from outside NUS, you need to login using NUS WEB VPN ( http://webvpn.nus.edu.sg/staffportal/ )
3	Roadshow slides and FAQ on iORC
4	Enquiries
	For enquiries, contact: oshbox4@nus.edu.sg