EHS

The Environment, Health, and Safety Management System

Working together to protect people and planet.

The following are integral components of the MIT Environment, Health and Safety Management System (EHS-MS). The EHS Management System provides a set of tools designed to ensure a safe, healthy and environmentally sound workplace. To learn more about your individual role and responsibilities, please visit http://web.mit.edu/ehs-ms.

What can I do on the EHS tab?

• DLC Preference Settings: Change the DLC defaults for injury reporting, training reconciliation notification, and inspection reporting and notification.

PI Space Registration

• Roomset: Create New and Roomset: Create/Change/Display: Register spaces including sets of rooms that contain hazardous materials, equipment, SARA substances and emergency contacts to principal investigators (PI) or supervisors.
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• Room: Create/Change/Display: Print out "Greencard" or emergency contact information for each room and to update a room's potential hazards.
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• SARA Reporting: Change/Display: SARA Reporters can update and submit annual SARA Reporting.
  More information and guidance

Inspections and Audits

• Documents and tracks department, laboratory, center or work area inspection results and follow up. To monitor the status of each finding, select "Inspection Task List" (DLC EHS Coordinators and Lead Contacts). To report on progress of findings assigned to you, select "View Findings Assigned to Me".
  More information, guidance and tools

Supervisor's Injury Report

• Report an Injury: Supervisors or their designees need to submit a report on any injury taking place on MIT premises or involving MIT employees in the performance of their work within 24 hours using this online form.

Training

• Training Reconciliation: Lets Training Reconcilers for a PI or Supervisor review the list of people who affiliated with their PI or Supervisor in their online Training Needs Assessment and add the names of those who are missing, delete those that are incorrect or inactivate those who are no longer there. This information should be updated regularly, at a minimum of twice a year when email reminders are sent to the Training Reconciler. Adding someone automatically sends them an email to complete their Training Needs Assessment.
  More information on Training Reconciliation
• Training Needs Assessment: Lets faculty, students, employees and contractors assess their EHS training requirements based on their work with potential hazards and check training status. Links users to on-line registration for live courses and access to web-based training.
• Report on Training: Links EHS Coordinators, EHS Representatives, and EHS Office staff to reports that assist with following up on training requirements and completion status for the department, PI or Supervisors, and individuals.
• Training Admin's Page: Lets EHS Office maintain all training records.

Warehouse Reports

• Source of easy to use standardized reporting for all EHS users: EHS Coordinators, EHS Lead Contacts, EHS Office Staff, etc. Currently provides information on EHS Training and PI Space and SARA Reporting information in the MIT Data Warehouse. (Dashboard Reports)

Waste

• Links to online form for requesting regulated waste pickup.

EHS Office Only

• Links to system used by EHS Office to maintain inspections content.

EHS Web Resources– Web resources that contain vital information about the EHS Management System, Environment and Emergencies at MIT.