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Mission Statement

Safety, Health, Environment & Risk Management’s (SHERM) mission is to work in conjunction with the UTHSC-H community to ensure that education, research, and health care service activities take place in conditions that are optimally safe and healthy for all students, faculty, staff, visitors, surrounding community and the general public.

Put simply, we exist to help people go home as healthy and safe as they arrived.

SHERM consists of two main functional units: Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) and Risk Management & Insurance (RMI)

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The main SHERM office is located at

The Operations Center Building
1851 Crosspoint, OCB 1.330
(713) 500-8100 main phone
(713) 500-8111 fax line

News and Updates

Department of Homeland Security
Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standard (6 CFR Part 27) (PDF)
Questions regarding this new standard

Hazcom (Power Point Presentation)
Po-210 Radiological Briefing (Power Point Presentation)
Security 101 for HPs (Power Point Presentation)
NIOSH, Southwest Center Continuing Education Schedule



Safety First Newsletter



date modified: 10/17/2007

 

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