Standard Operating Procedures, Documents, Forms and Templates

Please use the following documents as guidance or templates. If you would like your template or SOP added, please email us.

PC Users: In Microsoft Office products, you may create a blank document and Save As, and choose Template (dotx for Word and xltx for Excel). When a user double clicks on that template file, Office will open a new document with all the formatting intact. To edit the template, right click on the file and choose Open.

Biological Inventory

A biological inventory is required by the Public Health Agency of Canada as identified in the Laboratory Biosafety Guidelines from 2004. The inventory keeps track of pathogen storage and who has responsibility for them. A biological inventory is required for all Level 2 and Level 3 biological agents.

Inventories must include new additions as a result of diagnosis, verification of proficiency testing or receipt from other locations. After use, transfers or appropriate inactivation and disposal, record it in the inventory.

The following forms were developed by senior technicians of McMaster. The forms are templates for you to download and customize for your laboratory.

Inventory Templates

Cell Line Inventory (xlsx)

Virus Inventory (xlsx) - Multiple User

Pathogen Use Log (xlsx)

Level 2 Record Sheets (xlsx)

Example of an SOP for Biosafety Inventory Information (pdf)

Cell line per-batch Inventory Template (pdf)

Cell line per-batch Inventory 2nd page (pdf)

Training Records

Lab Specific Training Record (doc)

Other SOP / Templates