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Request to Continue Essential Research in on-campus research laboratories and facilities Form
Lakehead University Thunder Bay and Orillia Campuses
Please send this form to the Vice-President, Research and Innovation only after it has been signed-off by your
Faculty Dean.
A fully signed copy of this form should be kept and posted in your laboratory.
To be granted an exemption to the University’s decision to restrict all on-campus research activity
on the Thunder Bay and Orillia campuses, justification for the exemption, requires
the approval of your Faculty Dean and Vice-President Research and Innovation. Please
send this form once signed by the Faculty Dean to vpresearch@lakeheadu.ca. We will
respond to the email address provided for the Principal Investigator below, cc: to the Dean and
Director, Research Services.
The following criteria will be considered in the decision to grant the exemption:
• The nature of the project:
o Does it involve COVID-19 research?
o Does it involve maintaining critical research material that cannot otherwise be preserved
(e.g., biological materials, living plant collections, etc.)?
o Is this research that is at a critical stage or close to an end-point?
• Is the exemption being requested to allow you to take simple steps to sustain a collection, such
as topping up liquid nitrogen stocks or moving samples into a more sustainable storage container?
• Will the number of people required to do the work be able to respect social distancing protocols?
Campus:
Thunder Bay Orillia
Name of Principal
Investigator:
Building/Room #'s:
Primary Mobile
Phone Number:
Personnel who will
access the
research facility:
(list Principal
Investigator first)
Graduate student Post-doctoral Fellow Staff
Personnel #1:
Mobile Phone Number:
Faculty member
Personnel #2:
Mobile Phone Number:
Faculty member
Graduate student Post-doctoral Fellow Staff
NOTE: If only one person will be accessing the facility, please include the plan for
ensuring that person’s safety and security in the safety plan section of this form.
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All personnel who will be working on site under this exemption have completed
All required H&S related traini
ng.