U of A Safety Hub

How to Access The Safety Hub

• Log in to Safety Hub using your CCID and password. 
• To set up a lab and add users, contact HSE at hse.info@ualberta.ca or use this Google Form.

*Users external to the University of Alberta may not currently have a CCID and will require a guest CCID. Connect with a departmental contact or contact the Staff Service Centre with questions about CCIDs for guests.

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Currently on Safety Hub (since 2025)

Chemical Inventory and Hazardous Waste Modules

The Safety Hub chemical inventory and hazardous waste modules replace previous disparate methods of managing lab inventories across the university, including handwritten documents, Excel spreadsheets and various software solutions.

Laboratory Benefits

The software equips labs with a method of tracking chemicals, resulting in:

• An up to date, digitally accessible inventory available from anywhere
• Ability to easily add and remove chemicals, including submitting waste directly from inventory
• Ease in transferring chemicals between labs
• Control over adding and removing lab users who have access to inventory
• A reconciliation/verification feature to verify/update inventory at least annually
• Ability to track a wide variety of chemical attributes, including receipt dates, expiry dates, GHS/TDG safety information and current quantities
• Visual identification of expired chemicals in the software
• Searchable fields to quickly find chemicals in a large inventory

Additional benefits include enhanced safety, decreased chemical waste, increased efficiency and reduction in costs.

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Updates to Safety Hub

Users may have noted the following changes to U of A Safety Hub chemical and waste disposal modules over the last few months. Many of these changes are being implemented based on user feedback. Please continue to provide your feedback to HSE through hse.info@ualberta.ca so we can work towards improving the software for all users.

Changes in 2026:

• The U of A Safety Hub Manual continues to be updated to reflect system changes. This manual is also accessible through the “Help” button in U of A Safety Hub.  
• Chemicals in inventory and waste requests must now be selected from the catalogue.
• Waste supplies can now be requested through U of A Safety Hub under the “Waste/Lab Supplies Request” button. 
• Annual regulatory reporting (Chemical Weapons Convention/ECCC Prohibited Toxic Chemicals/Safeguards) is now being done through U of A Safety Hub.
• Enhancements to chemical inventory to enable inclusion of more information.
• Improvements to chemical inventory verification process:
  1. Easier sorting
  2. Barcodes scanned in a batch can now be entered all at once.
• Chemical Track Usage
  1. Allows labs to log the quantity that remains in a specific bottle for quick reference in the software.

Upcoming Changes/Improvements:

• Better management features for time-sensitive chemicals (such as peroxide formers) in the software. This will include:
  • Mandatory expiry dates for specific chemicals when adding them to your inventory
  • Notifications about expired or soon-to-be expired chemicals
• Catalogue cleanup to better represent the chemicals in U of A labs. 
• Clean up and consolidation of vendor lists.
• Requesting barcodes through U of A Safety Hub - HSE is exploring the possibility of requesting pre-generated barcodes directly in the software.
• HSE is exploring opportunities to simplify the process of getting set up as a user in the software.

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