In 2002 Yale created EHS Safety Advisor positions by reassigning and retraining single specialty staff (e.g., radiation safety) to provide multidisciplinary services. Each Safety Advisor is assigned to a specific department. Safety Advisors provide their services to 450 Yale buildings, including 2,700 research labs. The Safety Advisor serves as their single point-of-contact for comprehensive safety and compliance services. This promotes familiarity and provides convenient “one stop shopping” for Yale faculty and staff.  Yale faculty and staff often report positive interactions and exceptional customer service from their assigned Safety Advisor. Safety Advisors provide EHS services extremely efficiently because of their multidisciplinary training. They support research with radioactive materials, human pathogen, chemical carcinogens and provide a great variety of other services. These positions and our service model have been tremendously successful.

Yale’s Safety Advisor Model for Supporting and Integrating Safety into Research

256th National Meeting (2018)

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