| ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH AND SAFETY |
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| Principal investigator:
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- Provides safe and healthy environments for areas and
personnel assigned to their project(s)
- Initiates and enforces necessary preventive measures to
control hazards
- Consults with the Department of Environmental Health and
Safety regarding appropriate practices and facilities to
conduct research safely and in compliance with regulatory
requirements
- Requests operational and/or technical support as necessary
- Ensures that personnel follow required policies and procedures
- Ensures necessary support such as personal protective
equipment, occupational medical examinations, local exhaust
ventilation, etc. are in place
- Participates in relevant training and education
- Ensures that project personnel participate in relevant
training and education
- Ensures completion of University of Utah Registration
of Materials Potentially Infectious to Humans form, as necessary
- Ensures injuries and illness are reported to the Worker's
Compensation Office
- Serves as focal point for safety and health concerns
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| Other research personnel:
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- Follow required practices and procedures
- Participate in relevant training
- Report safety, fire, and health hazards, environmental
deficiencies, injuries and illnesses to the Principal Investigator
or designee
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| Department/center/project
financial officer: N/A |
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| Department chair/center
director: |
- Assures that project is in compliance with state, federal,
sponsor and University of Utah policies and regulations
regarding environmental health and safety
- Ensures areas under their management are in compliance
with University health and safety policies, practices and
programs
- Promotes University environmental health and safety compliance
efforts and programs
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| Deans office/designee:
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- Ensures individuals under their management have the authority
and support to implement health and safety policies, practices
and programs
- Promotes University environmental health and safety compliance
efforts and programs
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| Executive administration:
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- Promotes University environmental health and safety compliance
efforts and programs
- The Vice President for Administrative Services is responsible
for matters of policy regarding environmental health and
safety and for operation of the Department of Environmental
Health and Safety
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| Conflict of Interest
committee: N/A |
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| Environmental Health
and Safety, Department: |
- Serves as the primary technical resource for the University
research community regarding environmental health and safety
policies, procedures, and regulatory issues
- Staff serve on Radiation Safety Committee, Institutional
Biosafety Committee, and IACUC
- Executes enforcement actions as prescribed by institutional
policy or committee decision
- Conducts special risk assessments and provides recommendations
on appropriate practices and facilities to conduct research
safely and in compliance with regulatory requirements
- Conducts periodic review of research facilities and/or
procedures to ensure compliance (IACUC only)
- Provides operational and/or technical support for research
activities that require monitoring, tracking, decontamination,
or disposal of potentially hazardous and/or regulated materials
- Identifies training resources for the University research
community
- Identifies, monitors, and interprets local, state, and
federal agency actions related to environmental health and
safety for implementation within the University research
community
- Develops draft policies/procedures for oversight committee
review
- Provides an annual report of activities to the Vice President
for Administrative Services
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| Governmental Accounting
and Support Services: N/A |
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Institutional Animal
Care and Use Committee/
Animal Resource Center: |
- Requires Environmental Health & Safety Department
review and approval of any use of toxic chemicals, carcinogens,
other toxins, as appropriate, for submitted protocols
- Requires training in the Occupational Health and Safety
Program for animal researchers
- Requests assessment of safety risks within animal facilities
and laboratories
- Requests assessment of safety risk in animal housing
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| Institutional Review
Board: |
- Requires Radiation Safety Committee and Institutional
Biosafety Committee approval if necessary
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| Office of Internal
Audit: |
- Provides information, analyses, and counsel to assist
management in ethically, effectively, and efficiently fulfilling
their management responsibilities
- Examines, assesses and reports on accountability and controls
- Supports management database application to support management's
project monitoring efforts
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| Radiological Health,
Department: N/A |
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| Institutional Biosafety
Committee: |
- Reviews research for compliance with NIH Guidelines for
Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules
- Reviews research for compliance with biosafety regulations
- Chair reports problems, violations, accidents/illnesses
to the University of Utah and NIH/OBA within 30 days
- Provides any information requested by IRB, IACUC to facilitate
review and approval of research involving recombinant DNA
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| Office of Sponsored
Projects: |
- Coordinates with the Department of Environmental Health
& Safety regarding specific institutional compliance
programs in place for specific projects prior to proposal
submission
- Documents agency guidelines and Principal Investigator/University
compliance
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| Technology Transfer
Office: N/A |
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