Safety Services
Occupational
Mission
Plans, executes, and supervises an occupational safety surveillance program for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock. Identifies, provides notification, and recommends corrective actions for elimination or minimizing of unsafe or atypical (discrepancies from accepted standards) conditions and operations presenting risk or probability of injury to persons, damage to equipment or facilities, and non-compliance with established federal and state standards and guidelines pertaining to occupational health and safety. This process includes investigations, inspections and surveys, consulting and responding as appropriately needed in regard to observations, inquiries, and reported hazards of unsafe conditions or acts.
Responsibilites
The Occupational Safety Division is directly responsible for public access, support service areas and clinic safety programs. Supervises office safety program (including ergonomic workstation evaluations), sidewalks, parking lots and grounds safety programs. Prepares and coordinates investigation analysis and recommendations to appropriate administrative personnel for implementation of corrective actions and follow-ups for effectiveness.
Programs also include, Health & Safety Reviews, Respiratory Protection, Incident/Injury Response and Investigation, Ergonomics, Recall Notification, Regulatory Review, Hazard Communication (jointly with Lab Safety Section) and Confined Spaces.
Policies
- 75.01 - TTUHSC Safety Programs
- 75.02 - TTUHSC Safety Committees
- 75.08 - Cardio-Pulmonary Arrest Response (Code Blue)
- 75.11 - Personnel Health and Medical Surveillance Policy for TTUHSC
- Attachment A - Tuberculosis (TB) Surveillance Program
- Attachment B - Immunization Program
- Attachment C - Occupational Exposure Management Program
- Attachment D - Program for Personnel with Laboratory Animal Contact
- Attachment E - New Employee Safety Orientation Program, Level 2 - Site Specific Information
- Attachment F - Lubbock Campus Personnel Health/Medical Surveillance Program
- 75.12 - TTUHSC Guidelines for Using N-95 Respirators
- Attachment A - Fit Testing for N-95 Particulate Respirator Use Hazard Assessment
- Attachment B - Qualitative Fit Test Record
- Attachment C - Information for All Users of N-95 and Other Filtering Facepiece Respirators
- 75.13 - Shipment of Diagnostic and Infectious Materials
- 75.14 - Non-Employee Incident/Injury Procedures & Reporting
- Attachment A - Non-Employee Incident/Injury Response Flow Diagram
- Attachment B - Non-Employee Incident/Injury Report Form (non-clinic area)
- 75.15 - Management of Claims Relating to Public Areas of HSC Facilities/Property (non-clinical area)
Forms
 Injury to an Employee? |
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Posters |
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Health and Safety Review |
 FAQs on Disposable Respirator Use |
Training
The Occupational Safety Division supports the Safety Service's Department Training by providing consultation to the other divisions in relation to general and occupational safety issues, providing access to digital photographs for hazardous conditions discovered in inspections/surveys or investigations. Forwarding information deemed appropriate for inclusion or addition to training programs obtained from our activities or discovered in researching various safety issues or regulatory review on the Internet.
Contacts
Ergonomics
Resources
- ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities (ADAAG)
- American Biological Safety Association
- American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
- Antimicrobial Chemical/Registration Number Indexes
- Biological Defense Safety Program
- Biosafety Guidelines
- Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) 4th Edition
- Code of Federal Regulations
- CDC Health Topics A to Z
- Construction Checklist for Self-Inspection
- Consumer Product Safety Commission Press Releases and Recalls
- Federal Register Online via GPO Access
- Guidance for Protecting Building Environments from Airborne Chemical, Biological, or Radiological Attacks
- IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans and their Supplements: A complete list
- Index to Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for Infectious Substances
- Job Hazard Analysis - OSHA
- NIH Design Policy and Guidelines
- Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) Standards
- Report on Carcinogens
- Search the United States Code
- Selecting, Evaluating, and Using Sharps Disposal Containers
- State Office of Risk Management
- TB Respiratory Protection Program In Health Care Facilities
- TEXAS ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS (TAS)
- Texas Hazard Communication Act
- Texas Legislature Online
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Department of Safety Services, 3601 4th Street MS 9020, Lubbock, TX 79430
806.743.2597