EHS is tasked with implementing the university’s commitment to environmental protection by ensuring compliance with all federal, state and local environmental regulations. This entails the following:
- Obtaining and maintaining environmental permits for the following disciplines
- Air
- Industrial waste
- Biomedical waste
- Storage tanks
- Sanitary sewer discharge
- Ozone layer protection
- Fats, Oil and Grease discharge
- Managing hazardous waste, universal waste and pharmaceutical waste disposal according to federal guidelines
- Providing training to faculty, staff and students on issues relating to environmental compliance such as biomedical waste handling, chemical waste management in laboratories and spill prevention control
- Responding to small and medium chemical spills
- Maintaining Hazwoper and D.O.T shipment certifications
- Consultation on construction projects from an environmental perspective
