A unit safety committee should be a forum which can identify and resolve safety concerns and a tool which can help unit administrators manage the unit's safety program (see "Building a Safety Program" document link below). A unit safety committee solicits concerns and ideas, addresses and/or coordinates solutions to safety problems, investigates accidents, audits the progress of unit safety initiatives, provides a conduit to distribute information, and can be the liaison with the University's Safety & Loss Control Committee (see link below) and the Environmental Health & Safety Office (see link below). For smaller units, an individual can be designated as a unit safety officer in lieu of a safety committee.

Additional information, tools and resources that may be useful to unit safety committees and for establishing and measuring the effectiveness of unit safety programs may be viewed by selecting the links below.

University Safety and Loss Control Program
(APM-Chapter 35, section 30)

• Institutional Safety & Responsibility
• Safety & Loss Control Program
• Human Resources & Safety Training
• Property & Asset Conservation
• Public Use & Liabilities
• Environmental Issues

• Mission Statement and Structure
  (APM-Chapter 35, section 32)
• Current membership list
• Meeting Schedule (All meetings begin at 8:30am)

  August 28, 2008; Commons Crest Room

• Environmental Health & Safety
  • EHS Organizational Chart
• Report a Safety Concern
  
• UI Unit Safety Committee Listing

• Building a Unit Safety Program
• Unit Safety Program Status Assessment Checklist
• Unit Safety Committees
• Typical objectives and functions
• Policy statement example
• Meeting agenda example
• Meeting Minutes example
• Safety concern form example

• EHS TrainTrack
• Safety 24/7: UI's official safety orientation video and companion pamphlet.
• Web-based Unit Safety Committee Orientation Course

• CALS Safety webpage
• Chemistry Department Safety webpage
• College of Art and Architecture Safety webpage
• Facilities Unit Safety Committee Webpage
• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (CLASS) webpage
• Traction Pullovers
• Unit Safety Committee Safety Project Funding reimbursement form