Benjamin Fontes (EHS), Tom Ouimet (EHS) and Randina Palmisano (YARC) worked diligently for more than a year on the production of a training video that was funded by the American Biological Safety Association. The video, entitled “Working Safely with Laboratory Animals,” is designed to address issues at the Animal BSL-1, 2 and 3 levels. This video bridges an important and vulnerable gap between lab animal husbandry, research, and safety. It will be distributed widely by ABSA and further helps establish Yale’s reputation in the areas of lab animal resources and safety. This award recognizes the very hard work, technical expertise and, perhaps above all, the perseverance that these three individuals brought to this project. They successfully mastered the training issues, negotiated their way through the oversight committee’s requirements and developed a product that they and all of their partners should be proud of.