Updated: 03/22/2024
The Office of Animal Welfare (OAW) and Center for Laboratory Animal Training Resources (CLATR) no longer provide badges to buildings at University of Washington campus.
OAW/CLATR provides access to facilities that house research animals. This is done by adding permissions to badges. Depending on your responsibilities, different processes must be performed before those access privileges are added to your badge.
By the time you complete Hands-on classes and attend facility orientations you must have the appropriate badge so that you can start working on your research.
Facility Requirements
Research animals at UW are housed on multiple campuses and in multiple buildings. Some have unique badge requirements. Please see the list below to identify which badge(s) you will need.
6th Floor ABSL-1- 6th Floor ABSL-2
- ARCF & Foege ABSL-1
- ARCF & Foege ABSL-2
- K-Wing
- T-Wing
- Life Sciences Building (LSB)
- Life Sciences Building Aquatic (LSB)
- Health Sciences Building (HSB) Zebrafish
Requires UW Husky Badge or HSB Temp Badge for both the buildings and animal housing facilties.
SLU 3.1 ABSL-1- SLU 3.1 ABSL-2
- SLU 3.1 ABSL-2+
- SLU 3.1 ABSL-3
- SLU 3.1 Irradiator Room
- Brotman ABSL-1
- Brotman ABSL-2
Requires UW SLU Access Card for building and animal housing facilities.
Harborview Research & Training (HRT)
Requires UW Medicine: Harborview Medical Center Badge for building and animal housing facilities.
- Guthrie
- North Lake Diesel (NLD)
- CHDD
- GNAC
- Roosevelt
Requires UW Husky Badge for buildings and animal housing facilities.
Where to get Badges
Depending on the campus and vivarium you will need different badges. Instructions below on where and who you can acquire badges from.
Staff will be provided Husky badges by their hiring manager.
If you are a student and not taking classes during the summer but performing research, you will need to acquire a HSB Temp Badge.
Go to HS Building Management to learn about steps to get an HSB Temp Badge.
Visitors and Students
Departments need to request badges on behalf of visitors/students through Health Sciences Building Management & Security.
Questions for Temp badges can be addressed to Health Sciences Building Manage at hsbuild@uw.edu.
Contractors
Contact the UW department that you are working with and they will facility badge process. If you are not affiliated with a specific department contact Health Sciences Building Manage at hsbuild@uw.edu.
New Researchers/Students
ID Center Location at Harborview.
New DCM Staff
Please contact your Vet Tech or the Assistant to the Chair in DCM to process the request.
New Researchers/Students
If your lab has space at SLU, contact your lab manager, PI, or other badge approver to request access. If your lab does not have space at SLU and you only need access to the vivarium, CLATR can sponsor your badge. For more information, please contact sluinfo@uw.edu or 206-897-1327.
You need to contact the SLU reception team (sluinfo@uw.edu or 206-897-1327).
New DCM Staff
Please contact your DCM facility supervisor who can request an SLU badge from SLU Building Services.
Door Key Codes/PINS
Some rooms in DCM managed facilities have cipher locks on internal doors that require key codes and PINs. Those numbers are are either shared by research teams or issued by facility supervisors.
The facility supervisors will provide those numbers after the researchers complete their facility orientations.