'Safe People' requirements and resources
- Laura Ward
- Matthew Burns (Staff)
- Aaron Jackson
- Paul Robbins
Introduction
Our TRE is operated within the Five Safes Framework and as such, you have to undertake Information Governance (IG) training and approvals. This is a necessity of being a secure data analyst in the TRE and HIC undertake ‘credentialling' to adhere to best practice in data security. The “Safe People” principle ensures that individuals who access the sensitive data are authorized, trained, and trusted.
We require all TRE users to have completed approved training and provide proof of such. This is valid for 3 years, and we will send you a reminder notification 4 weeks before if expires.
Below are instructions for how to complete this mandatory IG training, as well as further recommended training courses to add to your continuing professional development. The MRC “Research, GDPR and confidentiality - what you really need to know” course should take no more than 1 hour to complete.
HIC will accept a valid certificate (i.e. within the last 3 years) from the ONS Safe Researcher training course as an alternative to the MRC training. As with the MRC course, please send your certificate to us at HICSupport@dundee.ac.uk .
Instructions for IG training
Navigate to MRC Regulatory Support Centre: Research Data and Confidentiality e-learning and create an account using your organisation credentials.
Navigate to the “Regulatory Support Centre” for free e-learning resources.
Navigate to “Research, GDPR and confidentiality - what you really need to know” by clicking on the “e-Learning” title to expand the options.
The below screen shot shows you the landing page for the overall course, there are 10 modules you need to complete.
5. Each module will open a new window like Module 1 below.
Once you’ve completed all 10 modules, you need to undertake the assessment (consisting of 10 questions). Hopefully a pass result will pop up as below:
Next select ‘Print Results’ which will create a pop-up box to enter your name as below:
Please provide a screenshot image or send the pdf, of the quiz certificate making sure your name and date are clearly visible. This should be sent to HICSupport@dundee.ac.uk .
Other resources
MRC Good Research Practice
MRC Research and human tissue legislation
SCADR have many great resources here
Research Data Scotland have a comprehensive resource here on approvals and training