General Safety Programs

General Workplace Safety helps ensure that individuals can live, study, work in, and visit a safe campus environment. This often involves the maintenance of necessary equipment, or in some circumstances, of chemicals used in the workplace. General safety topics are common to divisions on campus that work for and report to the Executive Vice President. 

These topics include:

• Business Continuity
• Combustible Dust Prevention
• Confined Space Entry
• Contractor Safety Program
• Electrical Safety
• Emergency Planning
• Fall Protection
• Hazard Communication Plan
• Hot Work
• Job Hazard Analysis
• Ladders and Scaffolds
• Lock / Tag / Try
• Machine Guarding and Shop Safety
• Management of Change
• Mobile Elevated Work Platform (MEWP)
• Overhead Crane and Hoist
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Powered Industrial Trucks 
• Sharps
• Slips, Trips and Falls
• Stages, Tents and Canopies
• Transportation Safety
• Trenching & Excavating Safety
• Working Alone