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, and Regulatory Review.
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 (occurred in clinic area)
- 75.15 - Management of Claims Relating to Public Areas of HSC Facilities/Property (non-clinical area)
Forms
- Ergonomic Consultation Request - Online
- Hazard Report Form - Online
- Injury-Related
- Supervisor's Investigation of Employee's Accident/Incident
- Unusual Occurrence Report - event occurred inside a clinic
Health and Safety Review
- Amarillo Calendar
- El Paso Calendar
- Lubbock Calendar
- Permain Basin Calendar
- Health and Safety Review Form
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
Resources
- ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities (ADAAG)
- FDA Enforcement Report Index--2003-2004
- NIH Design Policy and Guidelines
- Consumer Product Safety Commission Press Releases and Recalls
- State Office of Risk Management
- Texas Legislature Online
- ARS Facilities Design Standards
- Job Hazard Analysis - OSHA
- Occupational Exposure to Tuberculosis; Proposed Rule - 62:54159-54309
- TB Respiratory Protection Program In Health Care Facilities
- Antimicrobial Chemical/Registration Number Indexes
- Construction Checklist for Self-Inspection
- Guidance for Protecting Building Environments from Airborne Chemical, Biological, or Radiological Attacks
- Federal Register Online via GPO Access
- 10th Report on Carcinogens
- Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) 4th Edition
- CDC Health Topics A to Z
- American Biological Safety Association
- Index to Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for Infectious Substances
- Biosafety Guidelines
- IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans and their Supplements: A complete list
- Selecting, Evaluating, and Using Sharps Disposal Containers
- Occupational Safety and Health Standards
- Search the United States Code
- Biological Defense Safety Program
- Code of Federal Regulations
- TEXAS ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS (TAS)
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Department of Safety Services, 3601 4th Street MS 9020, Lubbock, TX 79430
806.743.2597
