From Sticky Notes to Streamlined Approvals: Improving Work Requests in Animal Facilities

Published On: October 24th, 2024

In many animal facilities, requests for work—like setting up breedings or eliminating animals—are still handled through email, phone calls, or even sticky notes.

While this may get the job done, it leaves behind a weak audit trail and creates opportunities for miscommunication and lost details.

Mosaic Vivarium changes that. With Mosaic Vivarium, any task can be requested for any set of animals or cages, complete with comments and deadlines. When technicians perform the work, Mosaic ensures that the correct subjects are acted on and documents the completion of each task in real time.

Some work requests require approval before the work is completed. For example, certain tasks might need a veterinarian’s approval, or a principal investigator might want to approve any terminal actions, like requests to eliminate animals.

Mosaic Vivarium administrators can configure any task type with an approval workflow that can be as simple as requiring the approval of a single person, or as complex as requiring sequential approvals, including requiring a specified number of members from a group to approve. This level of control simply isn’t available with Excel.

No more spreadsheets or manual tracking—completed work is automatically accounted for and ready for billing. This means better accountability, less paperwork, and fewer opportunities for costly mistakes.

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