Our Promise
EHS exists to design and administer highly reliable and practicable programs to achieve occupational safety, bio-safety, radiation safety, and environmental protection.
Environmental Health & Safety
Our Promise
We exist to design and administer highly reliable and practicable programs to achieve occupational safety, bio-safety, radiation safety, and environmental protection.
Value We Create
Hazard Mitigation
Protection of human and physical resources, the environment, and institutional
reputation.
Compliance
High level of compliance with regulatory requirements and reduced regulatory burden for the
campus community.
Informed Stakeholders
Competent and accessible staff that provide meaningful and expert guidance, information, and
feedback to campus stakeholders.
How We Create It
Collaboration
We collaborate with stakeholders to identify solutions that are responsive to their
needs.
Effective Liaisons
We are effective liaisons with external regulators.
Expertise
We are skilled at interpreting and applying regulatory requirements to operations and
activities unique to UNL.
Agility
We utilize our resources to maximize our agility in meeting shifting demands of the campus
community and stakeholders.
Inclusive Excellence
Business and Finance is committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity as a purposeful and conscious fabric of our daily existence. We will demonstrate a welcoming and engaging workplace culture centered on civility, respect, and understanding.
Inclusive Excellence
In achieving and demonstrating our guiding principle of Intentional Inclusion and commitment to Inclusive Excellence, our teams will:
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Recognize the collective power of individual differences. -
Model a welcoming and open climate for the entire UNL community. -
Attract and retain diverse talent to enhance the level of service provided to the University. -
Create an environment where reporting and timely intervention of intolerance and any form of bias is expected and supported by all team members. -
Welcome Diversity and Inclusion education and training. -
Live each workday with these values in the forefront.
Ionizing Radiation Safety
Regulated Waste Management
Environmental Protection
Biosafety
Occupational/ Laboratory Safety
