Environmental Health and Safety
Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) was established to foster a place of employment and learning which is free as possible from hazards that could cause harm to the students, faculty, staff, visitors or surrounding environment.
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Important Numbers
Fire/Medical Emergency: 911
UTEP Police (24/7): (915) 747-5611
Work Related Injuries: (915) 747-7197
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EH&S offers a variety of online, instructor-led, and specialty safety classes for UTEP staff, faculty, and students. EH&S also offers Scischield, to campus laboratories. Scischield is a lab specific web portal that allows laboratory managers and P.I.s to organize their safety information.
EH&S offers forms and resources to promote healthy and safe operations on campus to protect students, faculty, and staff. The Workers Compensation program at UTEP ensures the presence of systems to minimize the frequency and severity of personnel injuries.
EH&S makes emergency procedures available to UTEP Students as a quick reference. Students should review these to be familiar and prepared, should an emergency occur. Student should always contact their professor, supervisor or EH&S with any safety questions or concerns.
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COVID-19 INFORMATION
What are COVID-19 symptoms? People may have COVID-19 if they are experiencing fever, chills, cough, fatigue, body aches, muscle or joint pain, shortness of breath, sore throat, headaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, nasal congestion, and loss of taste and/or smell. Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. Anyone can have mild to severe symptoms.