Paul has recently joined the Safety Services, Environmental Health & Safety team at UC Davis as the Asbestos & Lead Database Specialist within the Industrial Hygiene group. In this role, Paul is responsible for developing a centralized asbestos database to track and manage information for locations where asbestos and lead is present on campus.
Safety Services is pleased to announce the reinstatement of the CERT program at UC Davis in 2025! CERT educates volunteers about disaster preparedness for hazards that may occur in their area and trains volunteers in basic disaster response skills like fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and basic medical operations.
Since the pandemic, UC Davis has worked to ensure compliance with CA regulations by investigating and responding to COVID-19 cases, advising on isolation, quarantine, and masking, and keeping workplace health records. Starting February 3, these requirements will end.
A health and well-being category was added to the 2024 Citations of Excellence Award and Staff Scholarships to celebrate individuals and teams that go above and beyond to support their colleagues' well-being. Congratulations to our winners!
In recent years, campus has seen an increased number of emergency eye wash/shower combination units in publicly accessible areas being activated, either accidentally or intentionally with malicious intent, resulting in significant damage to buildings and equipment. EH&S and Facilities are working together to help reduce the impact of these activations with a pilot BSAS program to outfit these units with silent alarms.
Wellness means reaching beyond fitness and nutrition to the 8 dimensions of wellness: emotional, physical, occupational, social, spiritual, intellectual, environmental, and financial.
In September, Krisztina Forward and Maura Ferrero, Safety Officers for the School of Veterinary Medicine, coordinated a building evacuation fire drill over five days for seven buildings
Wellness means those days when I wake up well-rested, feeling good physically, have time for some movement during the day, and have energy to handle whatever the day brings with a smile on my face.
On July 23, 2024, a new regulation went into effect which aims to prevent heat illness in indoor workplaces.
The regulation applies to all indoor workplaces where temperatures are equal or greater to 82°F – with a few exceptions. “Indoor” refers to spaces that are under a ceiling or overhead covering which restricts airflow and is enclosed along its entire perimeter by walls, doors, windows, dividers, or other physical barriers which restrict airflow.
The recent revisions and renaming of SafetyNet 534: Building Evacuations for Individuals with Access and Functional Needs (AFN), reflect the Davis campus’ shift toward promoting nationally recognized best practices and emphasizing the need for inclusive evacuation planning.
The UC Ready Guidebook is designed to help continuity plan owners and end users navigate the UC Ready platform, create new continuity plans, update existing plans, and provide a more seamless experience when using the platform. The guidebook contains helpful process documentation for UC Ready, as well as tips and recommendations for an overall better user experience when updating or creating a continuity plan.
