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DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH AND SAFETY
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| To promote, create, and maintain a safe and healthful campus
environment |
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| Animal welfare:
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- Provides staff member to serve on IACUC to:
- Review and register use of any viruses, bacteria,
parasites, as appropriate, for submitted protocols
- Review and register use of any toxic chemicals, carcinogens,
other toxins, as appropriate, for submitted protocols
- Refer relevant protocols to Biosafety Subcommittee
- Provides training resource in the Occupational Health
and Safety Program for animal researchers
- Provides assessment of safety risks within animal facilities
and laboratories
- Provides assessment of safety risks in animal housing
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| Biosafety/recombinant
DNA: |
- Serves as the primary technical resource for the University
research community regarding environmental health and safety
policies, procedures, and regulatory issues
- Provides staff to serve on Radiation Safety Committee,
Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) 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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| Conflict of interest:
N/A |
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| Data and safety monitoring:
N/A |
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| Education and training:
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- Identifies training resources for the University research
community
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| Environmental health
and safety:
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- Serves as the primary technical resource for the University
research community regarding environmental health and safety
policies, procedures, and regulatory issues
- Provides staff to serve on Radiation Safety Committee,
Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) 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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| Financial management
of research: N/A |
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| Human gene transfer:
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- Serves as the primary technical resource for the University
research community regarding policies, procedures, and regulatory
issues in human gene transfer
- Supports the institution research activities that require
decontamination, or disposal of potentially hazardous and/or
regulated material
- Provides emergency response assistance to spills or other
critical events involving potentially hazardous and/or regulated
materials
- Identifies training resources. In particular, supports
the activities and membership of the Institutional Biosafety
Committee (IBC)
- Conducts special risk assessments and provides recommendations
on appropriate practices and facilities to conduct research
safely and in compliance with regulatory requirements
- Provides operational and/or technical support for the
University research community
- Identifies, monitors, and interprets local, state, and
federal agency actions related to human gene transfer for
implementation within the University research community
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| Human subjects:
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- Refers safety issues regarding human subject research
to the IRB as they arise
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| Human tissue samples:
N/A |
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| Patents and inventions:
N/A |
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| Radiation safety:
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- Department personnel serve on the Radiation Safety Committee
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| Sponsored projects
administration: |
- Interprets policy in this compliance area
- Takes action on non-compliance (notification of deficiency
or delinquency to project director, notification to internal
officials, and intervention as necessary to assure compliance)
- Communicates and coordinates with OSP to inform of specific
institutional compliance programs in place for specific
projects prior to proposal submission
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