riskNET: Report an incident or accident

Guidance for people who want to report accidents, incidents, near misses or hazard observation. It can be used by anyone who wants to report an accident or incident and is mandatory for staff and stud

There is a specialist risk assessment process for any work with or storage of GM, Hazard Group 2 and Hazard Group 3 organisms.

> Preparation and Approval of Risk Assessments for Work with Biological Agents and Plants Standard (download)

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Before you start

Do not use the back/forward buttons on your internet browser – use the breadcrumbs that appear on the top left-hand side of the screen to navigate through the system.
Use Google Chrome as your browser and close down the browser when you have finished entering data (this logs you out of the system).
Do not have multiple browser sessions open at the same time. You can only have one session at a time.

How to complete a specialist risk assessment for biological agents

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Any problems?

Email riskNET.help@ucl.ac.uk for assistance.

Last updated: Thursday, December 1, 2022

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