Program Services

Procedures in place to contribute to a safe and healthy work environment, which increase awareness of potentially unsafe acts and conditions, and ensure timely investigations and fact-finding to minimize the potential for future incidents.

Our Asbestos Management Plan is intended to maintain a safe work environment for all maintenance and construction workers, and the entire PSU community. By complying with OR-OSHA and OR-DEQ regulations we minimize the potential for exposure during maintenance and construction activities, and removal and disposal of this material.

Committed to the entire PSU community, this program is intended to increase the rate of survival of people who have sudden cardiac arrests. This is accomplished through availability of equipment and training to enhance life safety response measures.

The purpose of the exposure control plan is to eliminate or minimize occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens through contact with blood, other bodily fluids, or other potentially infectious material (OPIM).

Members of EHS perform periodic safety assessments of PSU-owned buildings to ensure the safety of all occupants.

There are a variety of health conditions that can be caused by prolonged exposure to cold temperatures. When combined with wind chill, they can become deadly. EHS provides students, staff, and faculty with resources and information on staying safe in cold weather.

This program protects employees and contractors through ensuring a safe work environment by identifying all confined spaces on campus.

EHS, along with PSU’s Signing Electrical Supervisor, maintains this written program which is designed to protect employees and critical infrastructure from the various electrical hazards.

EHS is committed to ensuring all employees remain healthy throughout their day-to-day job tasks and activities. This program applies to both office employees and staff primarily based in the field.

Eyewash and safety shower stations are routinely tested by EHS staff to ensure functionality.

This program is implemented in order to prevent injuries from falls from elevated locations with the intent to identify and address all fall hazards present to workers.

For information and guidance on fire prevention building inspections, hot work permitting, fire system impairments, and fire extinguishers.

This program was established to provide communication and training associated with the use of or exposure to hazardous materials in the workplace. 

A robust program overseen by EHS which includes identifying hazardous noise and implementing controls to reduce employee exposure, such as hearing protection.

This program outlines University procedures and practices aiming to limit heat illness, from individual responsibility to department-wide safety.

While EHS may assist with hot work permits, this program falls under the authority of and is maintained by Fire & Life Safety.

EHS works closely with Facilities & Property Management (FPM) staff to address indoor air quality concerns throughout the entire PSU campus.

To assist with identifying and either eliminating or reducing hazards associated with routine jobs/activities, PSU employees should conduct a Job Hazard Analysis for specific tasks.

This program includes the EHS Lead Management Plan, established for employees who may disrupt lead-containing materials during construction or maintenance activities.

Committed to protecting employees and contractors to hazardous energy, EHS maintains this program in accordance with all applicable regulatory standards.

To ensure the safety of all employees who work with or around hazards, EHS has established a program to identify those hazards and reduce the likelihood of related injuries and illnesses through the use of PPE.

EHS ensures PSU employees are protected from airborne hazards during their work by implementing this program, which includes procedures for identifying and controlling those hazards.

This program was implemented by PSU Risk Management and EHS departments to ensure the safety of university authorized drivers (faculty, staff, students, and/or volunteers) and bystanders.

This program outlines steps to ensure employees and contractors are not exposed to hazardous levels of respirable silica during work activities.

Vehicles in this program include Powered Industrial Trucks (PIT), such as forklifts, and Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWP), such as aerial lifts. EHS ensures the safety of operators and bystanders through special procedures and training.

EHS staff monitor campus building water systems for common contaminants, such as Legionella bacteria and lead. Protocols are maintained for remediation of those sources if results determine levels approaching the maximum contaminant levels are reached.

This program reviews the dangers of wildfire smoke, appropriate procedures to follow in case of emergency, how to measure air quality, and more.