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Welcome to Environmental Health & Safety

The University of Washington is committed to providing a healthy and safe environment for faculty, staff, students, visitors, and volunteers in all sites owned, operated, or controlled by the University. This commitment includes supporting a culture of health and safety across the University.

Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) is an administrative unit that assists University units in meeting their responsibility to protect the environment and to provide a safe and healthful place for employment and learning.

2021 Laboratory Safety Awards & Innovations Event Winners

 

Awards were given to labs, departments, and personnel in recognition of their achievements in safety culture.

The 2021 award winners for Top Dawgs in Safety:

  • Burke Museum
  • Department of Pharmacy
  • Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound
  • Department of Emergency Medicine
  • Department of Allergy & Infectious Disease
  • Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology

The 2021 award winners for Pack Leaders in Safety:

National Biosafety Month 2021: Wear a Lab Coat to Protect Yourself

 

 

October is National Biosafety Month, a time to focus on your lab’s biosafety policies and procedures. For 2021, EH&S would like labs to focus on the importance of wearing lab coats. Lab coats are an important barrier between your skin or clothes and any hazards that you work with in the lab. Not only do lab coats protect you from exposure, they also help prevent you from transporting laboratory contamination home to your family, friends and pets.