Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)

Environmental Health, and Safety provides quality service and creates a safe and healthy environment for our faculty, staff, students, and community. This task can only be achieved by working together as a team with all stakeholders. This also necessitates being good stewards of the university’s resources to create an environment of sustainability that will take us well into the future.

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Environmental and Occupational Safety Policy 

UNG is committed to achieving excellence in providing a safe working and learning environment and supporting environmentally sound practices in the conduct of institutional activities. UNG complies with applicable environmental and occupational safety laws and regulations and has designated a key member of its administrative leadership team to oversee compliance. In the absence of specific laws or regulations, UNG follows industry standards and good management practices.

UNG will develop and maintain policies and procedures to govern activities to meet the goal of comprehensively integrating occupational safety and environmental considerations and will periodically review and update such policies and procedures.

UNG will implement the standards, guidelines, and processes developed by the University System of Georgia’s (USG) chief facilities officer to promote, support, and access the implementation of environmental and occupational safety management programs and initiatives.

UNG will provide reports related to environmental and occupational safety performance to the USG chief facilities officer who will report such data to the Board of Regents on an annual basis.