Directors and Department Heads

Communicate and implement the Health and Safety Policy and its requirements to faculty, students, and staff.

Create a safety committee(s) or group as necessary to address and coordinate safety efforts and work with safety representatives and the Department of Environmental Health and Safety staff to address safety problems and issues within departments/units.

Designate and empower a safety representative(s) for departments, units or sections to ensure compliance with the Health and Safety Policy and program requirements. This representative will work with the Department of Environmental Health and Safety staff to develop and maintain safety programs.

Direct individuals under your supervision, including but not limited to principal investigators, supervisors, regular and temporary employees, visiting professors, and students, to obtain any required safety training before they work with hazardous chemicals, biohazardous agents, radiation, or other physical/mechanical hazards in their working or learning environments.

Report all accidents, laboratory-acquired illnesses, and work site injuries to University Human Resource Services and the Department of Environmental Health and Safety.

Develop and maintain adequate accident/illness prevention and health and safety programs within colleges or units.

Determine that safety needs for units/departments are met (e.g., training, protective equipment, and corrective measures including noncompliance items identified in safety audits).

Incorporate workplace safety requirements and responsibilities into each appropriate job description and ensure that workplace safety requirements expectations are communicated to each employee.

Conduct periodic safety self-audits of work areas and/or facilities (e.g., laboratories, work shops, offices, and athletic facilities).

Develop and maintain emergency action and disaster preparedness plans, for Ithaca and off-site facilities, that provide clear roles and responsibilities for all personnel in order to ensure familiarity and coordination between facility personnel and emergency responders.

Employees and Students

Comply with this policy and all other university health and safety practices and programs by maintaining class, work, and laboratory areas safe and free from hazards.

Attend required health and safety training.

Participate in prevention of accident, injury, and noncompliance to this policy as it relates to operations under your control.

Inform a supervisor or instructor of any safety hazards in the workplace, classroom, or laboratory.

Faculty, Principal Investigators, Supervisors, and Safety Representatives

Implement the university’s Health and Safety Policy and all other university safety practices and programs under your supervision or control.

Require all staff members and students under your direction to obtain and maintain required safety training.

Maintain workplaces and equipment under your direction that are safe, well-kept, and in compliance with the Health and Safety Policy.

Meet all safety needs for units/departments (e.g., engineering controls, training, personal protective equipment, corrective measures including non-compliance items identified in safety self-audits).