Environmental Health and Safety

Welcome to the Environmental Health and Safety鈥檚 (EHS) website. Our mission is to serve the safety needs of staff, faculty, and students of the UA Little Rock community.

How Can EHS Help You?

Our dedicated team works hard to ensure the University maintains compliance with Federal, State, and local regulations, such as NFPA fire codes, Arkansas Department of Labor (ADOL) safety codes, and regulations from the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ).

We also pickup hazardous waste, recycle used batteries, ensure labs are up-to-date with their chemical inventories, and offer safety training for anyone looking to increase their knowlege about a topic. If there is any other way we might assist you, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

New Lab Workers & Professors

Welcome to UALR! We are happy to have your expertise and look forward to a supportive and productive working relationship. Often, when beginning new roles there may be many unanswered questions you have regarding safety expectations and requirements (both regulatory and organizational). This section was developed to help fill those gaps.

New Professors

Current Lab Workers and Professors

Access essential safety guidelines, lab protocols, and institutional compliance standards required for all current lab faculty and workers. Review this resource regularly to ensure your teaching and research activities meet federal, state, and university regulatory requirements.

Current Professors

Training

For information about online and classroom offerings, visit Course Descriptions.

Create A Safe Work Environment

The following links will take you to EHS documents created to help strengthen the safety around your environment while you work, study, and research here at UA Little Rock.

Chemical Safety

This Chemical Hygiene Plan provides employees with the information and training necessary to improve workplace safety and health and to prevent chemical-related injuries and illnesses in our laboratories.

Workplace
Safety

This Manual was written to help ensure a safe, healthful workplace for all employees. Its goal is to reduce preventable accidents and illnesses, and eliminate workplace
hazards for students, staff, faculty, and visitors,

Laboratory
Safety

All faculty and staff on the UA Little Rock campus should maintain compliance with OSHA standards for lab safety. This document does not supersede, nor take the place of federal standards and guidelines, but only serves as a helpful guide in each of the covered areas.

Laser
Safety

For research and instructional laboratories on the UA Little Rock campus that regularly utilize lasers, this manual provides parameters for laser and laser systems to be operated in a manner conducive to regulating standards.

Radiation
Safety

The purpose of the Radiation Safety Manual is to assist both personnel and management in complying with Arkansas Department of Health and Bureau of Radiation Control regulations, and the UA Little Rock Radiation Safety Committee.