Environmental Health & Safety
Environmental Health and Safety assists the campus in providing a safe and healthful workplace through the development and implementation of programs which minimize the risk of occupationally related injury or illness. Also, EH&S develops and implements programs to ensure the safe use, handling and storage of hazardous materials and appropriate and compliant disposal of hazardous wastes. These are accomplished through employee training programs, procedures and policies, and compliance surveys.
Visit our contacts page to meet the EH&S team. Using the navigation bar to the right you can access Cal Poly's EH&S programs, quickly find a list of common forms and resources, or report a health and safety concern.
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We want to hear from you
Students, Faculty and Staff - Do you have a suggestion to improve campus health and safety? Or do you know someone who is a safety champion, setting an example for others and keeping workplace health and safety top of mind? Please let us know! Nominees could win a $50 gift card!
EHS has a one-stop combined form for the campus community to communicate concerns, share lessons learned, or to recongnize others for positive safety performance. Click this link to share your thoughts with us.
Need to Report an Injury?
If you experience a work-related injury or illness, you must notify your supervisor immediately*. Your supervisor will complete the Work Related Injury/Illness Form and provide to you the Claim Form DWC 1 within 24 hours of their knowledge of your injury/illness. Please fill out the Report an Injury, Illness, or Incident Form after you have notified your supervisor if you are an employee. Late reporting could delay or jeopardize Worker's Compensation benefits.
*If you are a Cal Poly employee in Unit 5 (Operations Support Services), and your injury is not an emergency, please contact the Work Injury Nurse Triage line at 1-866-658-7064 and notify your supervisor. A registered nurse will be active on the line at all times; bilingual Spanish speaking nurses are available. They will direct you in assessing and taking care of your injury as well as authorize any required treatment, and will fill out the Work Related Injury/Illness Form instead of your supervisor. After this initial call, you will later be contacted by Cal Poly SLO's Workers' Compensation Coordinator (WCC) in order to further discuss the injury.
The Nurse Triage line is a pilot program currently meant for custodial and landscape (Unit 5) staff only. It will be rolled out campus wide in early 2026.