Facility Policies

The following regulations apply to specific SCPs, and must be observed to avoid violating clause A and B.

A. Personnel shall not intentionally infect themselves or provide themselves with the effects of an anomaly.

B. Personnel shall not test an anomaly on themselves or other individuals.

C. Only combative personnel may transport object anomalies.

Pending re-write.

The Scientific Department is responsible for the testing and experimentation of housed anomalies; however, they are bound to ethicality and required testing procedures when they wish to conduct a test. Tests are observed by the Ethics Committee per these considerations:

1. The test question must not risk:

• A containment breach;

• Harm or unreasonable distress to an anomaly;

• The termination of an anomaly.

2. The use of Class-Ds in the test must not:

• Be wasteful;

  • Wasteful is defined as having an excessive amount of Class-Ds than what is needed for the testing procedure.

• Resulting in avoidable death.

  • Avoidable death is defined as any death serving no discovering purpose or that could’ve been avoided through obvious alternatives.
    
    

Before a Scientific Department member prepares to conduct their test, they must have the following prepared:

1. A well-thought-out test question and hypothesis before the test begins;

• If the researcher has a backup question/hypothesis, then they can substitute it if it is needed.

2. The anomalies that are being used in the test are available; it is the test host’s responsibility to ask for the requested anomalies availability;

• Loading Bay anomalies, if available for testing, must be retrieved and placed into the Cleanrooms chamber or at the checkpoint before the testing group arrives.
  
  

Foundation Personnel Testing Regulations:

1. Personnel can only be used against anomalies that are non-permanent, friendly, and safe.

2. Personnel may only be used if there are not enough Class-D’s online.

• Personnel may also be used if an anomaly that meets the previously mentioned criteria is being tested to see whether or not it behaves differently with foundation personnel as opposed to Class-D’s.

3. Personnel must accept the request to be tested, they cannot be tested against their will.

4. Personnel follow a 4 FP:1 combative ratio for SD.

5. Personnel must be disarmed before entering unless required for the experiment.
   
   

Non-Sentient Anomaly Testing Regulations:

1. The Scientific Department may attempt to terminate any non-sentient anomaly except for SCP-1162.

• All anomalies, except for sentient anomalies, can be put inside SCP-1162.

2. Any non-sentient anomalies that comes in a box may be used however the tester wishes as long as it provides beneficial results to the Foundation, and does not cause issues on-site.

• Beneficial results are discoveries which bring scientific value to the Foundation. This includes but isn’t limited to: recontainment methods, effects on other anomalies (both physical and behavior), effects on personnel.
  
  

SCP-4966 Testing Regulations:

1. SCP-4966 may be freely harmed/terminated if necessary for the testing procedures. Verbal harassment is not allowed.

2. SCP-4966-RED and SCP-4966-RUBY must have Eta-9 “Wardens” present during testing procedures and possible breach sounded for more dangerous tests.

3. SCP-4966 instances must not be fed any type of lethal tool, deployable or weapon unless the test question requires it.
   
   

Observing Experiments and Interviews:

1. Foundation Personnel are permitted to observe anomalous experiments and interviews conducted within the Paragon Research Institute if given prior permission by the host.

• All personnel of the Ethics Committee and Internal Security Department can spectate without prior permission. If these entities spectate a test, they do not count towards any in-place spectator limits.
  
  

Members of the Scientific Department are bound to the Code of Ethics during experiments; however, these laws can be voided and/or reduced with an Ethics Waiver. Ethics Waivers can be requested from the Scientific Review Office under the Ethics Committee within the Scientific Department server.

Experiments on anomalies under the jurisdiction of Eta-9 “Wardens” may be canceled by Eta-9 “Wardens” provided there is merit behind the cancellation. The following is a list of basic criteria to cancel an experiment;

1. Any experiment/interview which guarantees a breach.

• May still be conducted if; the Researcher has an Ethics Waiver and a test question with proper research purpose behind it, and Eta-9 “Wardens” accepts the experiment. 

2. Any experiment which could heavily impact site operations (Ex: Moving SCP-008 to Sublevel-4, moving SCP-173 to SCP-457's chamber)

• May still be conducted if; the Researcher has an Ethics Waiver and a test question with proper research purpose behind it, and Eta-9 “Wardens” accepts the experiment. 

3. Any experiment/interview which has no research purpose.

4. Any experiment which unnecessarily wastes foundation assets (Ex: Having 5 Class-D's for an experiment/interview that only requires 2).

• Regulation voided for mass experiments.

5. Any experiment which could result in the termination of an anomaly.

• May still be conducted if; the Researcher has a Termination Permit.

6. Any experiment must not hold the potential to cause a containment breach unless Eta-9 “Wardens” is notified of the possible consequences.

7. Any test should not result in avoidable death.

8. Furthermore, “common sense” policies are enforced (ex: it conflicts with a lore event, the researcher doesn’t have the right rank, failure to follow orders, lying to Eta-9 “Wardens”, etc).

Eta-9 “Wardens” maintains the right to deny any experiment if they determine that the experiment has a high likelihood of a containment breach, even if a waiver is obtained. This cannot be overruled by any member of the Foundation besides the Administrator, Chairman of the Council and the Mobile Task Forces Overseer, or a superior member of Eta-9 “Wardens”.