Workplace Safety

The campuswide Workplace Safety Program serves as the university’s central program for creating a safe and healthful work environment. 

Event Safety

crowd (icon) Ensuring safe and compliant campus events. Fire & Life Safety during Events

An event permit may be required to ensure the fire and life safety of the campus community. Issues of concern include:

Expected attendance of fifty or more people Campus space being used for other than normal purposes Tents or canopies over 400 sq ft Locations that could impact access by emergency vehicles Use of open flame, pyrotechnics and/or compressed...

One Glove Policy

Office of Environment, Health & Safety
2021
Do not use gloves to touch common surfaces (elevator buttons, door handles, card swipes, etc.) Only ONE GLOVE may be used to transport chemicals and samples through common areas. Use of one glove prevents chemical contamination in common areas.

Heat Illness Prevention and Response

Heat Illness Prevention and Response

Work in hot environments can have direct effects on human health including, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and can lead to reduced labor productivity. All university employees who work outdoors or in environments with elevated indoor temperatures may be at risk for heat illness– the group of medical conditions caused by the body’s inability to cope with heat.

Heat exposure can be...

Outdoor Heat Illness Prevention Factsheet

2025

Work in hot environments can result in heat illness, a group of medical conditions caused by the body’s inability to cope with heat. Heat illness includes heat cramps, heat exhaustion, fainting, and heat stroke.

All university employees who work outdoors may be at risk for heat illness including, but not limited to, field researchers, grounds crews, maintenance workers, and special event staff. Supervisors are responsible for ensuring that the measures outlined in this...

Outdoor Heat Illness Prevention Program | Campus General Plan

2026

Campus General Plan

Outdoor Heat Illness Prevention Program Worksite Planning and Site Checklist

Office of Environment, Health & Safety
2020

Indoor Heat Illness | Campus Master Template

2026

Campus Master Template

Indoor Heat Illness Prevention Plan | Building Template

2026

Building Master Template

Indoor Heat Illness Prevention and Response Fact Sheet

Office of Environment, Health & Safety
2024

Work in hot indoor environments can result in heat illness, a group of medical conditions caused by the body’s inability to cope with heat. Heat illness includes heat cramps, heat exhaustion, fainting, and heat stroke.

University employees who work in high-heat indoor locations may be at risk for heat illness including, but not limited to, maintenance workers, cooks, researchers and others. Supervisors are responsible for ensuring that the measures outlined in this...

Indoor Heat Illness Prevention Plan

Office of Environment, Health & Safety
2024

Work Planning and Site Checklist – Required for Indoor Work