Safety Committee (safety in the workplace)

The campuswide Safety Committee is dedicated to providing a safe and secure environment that is conducive to life, work, research and study.

The cooperation of the entire campus community is needed to achieve the following goals:

• Minimize health and safety risks by providing safe and healthful work environments.
• Prevent unsafe acts and controlling exposures to health and safety hazards in the workplace.
• Provide and assure appropriate health and safety programs exist and are in the workplace.
• Control health hazards in the workplace and assure that employees are informed of hazards and how to protect themselves from overexposure.
• Communicate to employees all mandated medical findings and advise appropriate actions to be taken.
• Maintain medical records in a confidential manner.
• Ensure that all managers and employees have received orientation, instruction and training in health, safety and environmental protection matters.
• Require that all health, safety, environmental protection and loss-control practices, standards, laws and regulations be observed relating to people, facilities, materials, processes, wastes and the environment.
• Promote awareness of safety and environmental regulations, and to protect our natural resources.