General Provisions
Testing Procedures and Ethicality
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:
Ethicality: A Scientific Department member’s test must align with testing conditions and methods deemed ethical by the Ethics Committee. The test question must pass the following aspects:
The test question must not risk:
A containment breach;
Harm or unreasonable distress to an anomaly;
Termination of an anomaly.
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.
Preparation: Before a Scientific Department member prepares to conduct their test, they must have the following prepared:
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.
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 SCPs, if available for testing, must be retrieved and placed into the Cleanrooms chamber or at the checkpoint before the testing group arrives.
Any unethical test may be canceled by the Ethics Committee or Military Police. The Mobile Task Forces may cancel tests that pose a considerable risk of breaching containment.
The Scientific Department can request waivers from the Ethics Committee when special testing on anomalies is desired. ScD must prove that the requested waiver(s) allows for discovering unknown or legitimately informative results and that the requested waiver(s) corresponds with the necessary methodology.
Regulations may be temporarily modified for specialized experimentation by those who hold proper authority:
Scientific Department O5
Director of EC, ScD, or MTF with any O5 approval
FP Testing Regulations
FP can only be used against SCPs that are non-permanent, friendly, and safe.
FP may only be used if there are not enough CDs online.
FP may also be used if an SCP that meets the previously mentioned criteria is being tested to see whether or not it behaves differently with FP as opposed to CDs.
FP must accept the request to be tested, they cannot be tested against their will.
FP follow a 4 FP:1 combative ratio for SD.
FP must be disarmed before entering unless a weapon is needed for the test.
Non-Sentient SCP Testing Regulations
ScD can attempt to terminate any non-sentient SCP except SCP-1162.
All SCPs, except sentient SCPs, can be put inside SCP-1162.
ScD Command has the power to regulate which rank can do termination tests on SCP-1162.
Any non-sentient SCP 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.
SCP-4966 Testing Regulations
SCP-4966 may be freely harmed/terminated if necessary for the testing procedures. Verbal harassment is not allowed.
SCP-4966-RED must have Eta-9 present during testing procedures and possible breach sounded for more dangerous tests.
SCP-4966 instances must not be fed flamethrowers/explosives/high caliber weapons unless the test question requires it.
Observing Anomalous Experiments and Testing
Foundation Personnel are permitted to observe anomalous experiments and tests conducted within Paragon Research Institute, in accordance with the clearance restrictions below, based on testing location:
Low-Security Biological Testing
Located on Sublevel-4 and alternatively titled the Cleanrooms, observing facility operations in this sector is permitted for:
All personnel from the Ethics Committee, Audit and Accountability Committee, and Administrative Department can spectate without prior permission.
Foundation Personnel with Security Clearance-0+ and Class-D Quality Assurance Testers/Supporters can spectate only with prior permission from the hosting researcher.
Medium Containment Zone and Heavy Containment Zone
Located on Sublevel-6 and 3 respectively, observing facility operations in this sector is permitted for:
All personnel from the Ethics Committee, Audit and Accountability Committee, and Administrative Department can spectate without prior permission.
Foundation Personnel with Security Clearance-1+ can spectate only with prior permission from the hosting researcher.