Universities across the nation have been under heightened scrutiny by regulators of environmental health and safety laws. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has notified university presidents and top administrators that the institutions under their leadership are going to be held to the same standards of compliance as industry. Moreover, they stress, that educational institutions have a critical role to play in educating future leaders on working in a safe and regulatory compliant manner. To date, hundreds of universities across the nation have been subject to inspection and penalty, with individual fines sometimes exceeding a million dollars.
As sensational as the regulatory fines have been, UA is more concerned with assuring that faculty, students and staff have a safe and professional working environment. Legally, and under university policy, principle investigators are responsible for compliance management in their areas. Professional staff from risk services departments at each of the main campuses (Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau) are available to assist you in identifying compliance requirements, develop responsive programs, and helping you to implement and manage those programs.
The following questionaire is designed to help the risk service professional understand your current compliance status and help identify where you may need further assistance. If you are unsure how to answer a question, the question is unclear, or you would like additional information please check the box “More Information” and you will be contacted.
"Administrative Procedures" is called Section 1 in our survey and needs to be completed by all responders. Section 1 will appear after the following exclusionary questions have been answered and submitted.
