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The University's environmental health and safety program encompasses
seven major elements:
- The most important element is you. You are responsible
for assuring that all your activities result in an acceptable level of
risk to yourself, to the others present, to the general population, and to
the environment.
- Your immediate supervisor is responsible for keeping you
apprised of the approved procedures and information related to health and
safety of your activities.
- Your laboratory director, or in the case of work with
radiation, the authorized user in charge, holds the authority for
work with hazardous substances, radioactive materials or radiation
producing devices and is therefore responsible to insure that all work is
conducted with full regard for personnel safety and health and in
accordance with the laboratory safety plan and/or the approved radiation
use project.
- Your department head is responsible for establishing and
maintaining a work environment which fosters the appropriate health and
safety procedures in all activities of the department.
- Your unit safety committee, the group which audits the general
physical conditions and operations of the department and seeks resolution
of recognizable safety and health problems, acts as liaison with the EHSC
in matters of health and safety.
- The Environmental Health and Safety Center with its components,
Radiation Protection and Life Safety Services, administers the health
and safety programs of the University. The EHSC provides professional
assistance and expertise to members of the University community in matters
of occupational health and safety.
- Environmental Health and Safety Committees provide appropriate
input to the EHSC and its components Radiation Protection and Life Safety
Services. The voting members of these committees are drawn from the
faculty and staff and are recognized scientific experts in areas related
to the respective committee's activity. Safety Committees include the
Occupational Safety and Health Council, Hazardous Materials Committe,
Biosafety Committee, Radiation Protection Committee, and Unit Safety
Committees.
The success of the University's safety and health effort depends on all
of us working together and accepting personal responsibility for our
safety and the safety of those with whom we work. No job is so important
and no service is so urgent that we cannot take time to perform our work
safely.
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