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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The EHS Office has MOVED! Stop by our new location in Building 70, Room 109
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.
Safety Jam
Thank you to everyone that attended the last Safety Jam where guest speakers from Campus Health and Wellbeing trained the group in opioid overdose awareness, prevention, and Narcan administration.
The next Safety Jam is scheduled for October 25th from 8:30 - 10:30 in building 70, room 110. We will have a hands-on response exercise specific to laboratory chemical spills. An RSVP is required for this event to ensure adequate space and materials. Please contact Erin Winett at egwinett@calpoly.edu to confirm your attendance by October 18th.
Add your email to the ListServ below to get notifications including meeting topics and schedule changes. Come for the doughnuts and raffle and leave with valuable information. We hope to see you there!
The purpose of quarterly "Safety Jam" meetings is to bring together those on campus who have an active role in health and safety, to build a network of support across departments, enhance our collective body of knowledge, and have a forum for communicating safety-related issues, news, and events.
Safety Jams are open to anyone who would like to attend.
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the Safety Jams listserv
Risk and Safety Solutions (RSS)
The RSS relauch is underway, are you caught up?
EHS concluded a multi-part training series to support the relaunch of the campus RSS program. Each training focused on a different requirement or module, and each training builds upon the last. Trainings were recorded and posted.
Recordings for past sessions can be accessed on the RSS page
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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. Late reporting could delay or jeopardize Worker's Compensation benefits.