Safety, Health, Environment, & Risk Management
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.
The following case study is from the Texas Tech University lab accident as investigated by the Chemical Safety Board. The goal of the case study was to identify the events that led to the accident and how the academic community can learn from this tragedy. The video, presented by the CSB can be found
here.
A tornado (often referred to as a twister) is defined as a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth. Tornadoes come in many shapes and sizes, but are typically in the form of a visible condensation funnel, whose narrow end touches the earth and is often encircled by a cloud of debris and dust. Most tornadoes have wind speeds less than 110 miles per hour), are approximately 250 feet across, and travel a few miles before dissipating. The most extreme can attain wind speeds of more than 300 mph, stretch more than two miles across, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles. (Read more)
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Basic Radiation Safety Training |
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Infectious Shipping Training Questions regarding training? Contact Stephen David For online training please go to the TRC |
Basic Laboratory and Clinical Safety Training
