In order to comply with applicable federal and state regulations, the Seattle Pacific University Department of Facility and Project Management has reviewed and updated the existing Campus-Wide Health & Safety Plans. The following items are summaries of the plans.

The purpose of this program is to prevent workplace injuries, and identify and eliminate hazards that may develop during our employees' work. To comply with Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 296-800-14005, Accident Prevention Program (APP), we updated the existing written Accident Prevention Program. We developed and recommended an online training program to efficiently train all University employees on this topic (one-time training upon hire). This written plan is general and not intended to address unique, department-specific hazards.

You may access the document here.

Additionally, you may access the Outdoor Heat and Wildfire Smoke Plan here.

• Outdoor Heat and Wildfire Smoke Plan:

  2025.05.15 Outdoor Heat and Wildfire Smoke Plan.pdf

   

Employees handling chemicals are required to be informed about hazardous chemicals in the workplace. To comply with WAC 296-800-170 and the new WAC 296-901 Global Harmonization Standard (effective April 15, 2013), we developed and recommended an online training program to efficiently train all University employees on this topic (one-time training upon hire). This written plan is general and not intended to address unique, department-specific hazards. Many employees' only "chemical exposure" would be when using items packaged as "consumer products" (for example, pens, glass cleaner, or correction fluid) in typical consumer fashion. However, if employees are required to use chemicals more frequently (for example, housekeepers that use cleaning products all work shift, staff that use art supplies to create posters on a weekly basis, or researchers that routinely handle chemicals in the laboratory), they require additional formal, in-depth training.

You may access the document here.