Environmental Health and Safety
Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) was established to foster a place of employment and learning which is free as possible from hazards that could cause harm to the students, faculty, staff, visitors or surrounding environment.
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Important Numbers
Fire/Medical Emergency: 911
Â鶹¹ÙÍø Police (24/7): (915) 747-5611
Work Related Injuries: (915) 747-7197
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EH&S offers a variety of online, instructor-led, and specialty safety classes for Â鶹¹ÙÍø staff, faculty, and students. EH&S also offers Scischield, to campus laboratories. Scischield is a lab specific web portal that allows laboratory managers and P.I.s to organize their safety information.
EH&S offers forms and resources to promote healthy and safe operations on campus to protect students, faculty, and staff. The Workers Compensation program at Â鶹¹ÙÍø ensures the presence of systems to minimize the frequency and severity of personnel injuries.
EH&S makes emergency procedures available to Â鶹¹ÙÍø Students as a quick reference. Students should review these to be familiar and prepared, should an emergency occur. Student should always contact their professor, supervisor or EH&S with any safety questions or concerns.
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COVID-19 INFORMATION
What are COVID-19 symptoms? People may have COVID-19 if they are experiencing fever, chills, cough, fatigue, body aches, muscle or joint pain, shortness of breath, sore throat, headaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, nasal congestion, and loss of taste and/or smell. Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. Anyone can have mild to severe symptoms.