About
About EHS
The EHS department endeavors to train, assist, audit and inspect existing safety practices and provide feedback to stakeholders such as faculty, researchers, contractors and vendors regarding best practices.
For Hot Work (welding, spark creation, open flame, or grinding)
Call Robert Parker (202-497-4289) or James Covington (202-497-2972)
Our Vision
Our vision is a community with students, faculty and staff who are knowledgeable of risk prevention and are empowered to learn and work in a way that protects both human health and the environment. This aligns with and supports the mission of the University as “sustaining a cadre of faculty who are, through their teaching, research and service committed to the development of distinguished, historically aware, and compassionate graduates and to the discovery of solutions to human problems in the US and throughout the world.”
Our Team Values
The EHS team exhibits attitude, teamwork and integrity in the following ways:
- Our team's attitudes strive to foster a safety culture throughout the University community and with all the stakeholders.
- Our team strives to cooperate and collaborate with facilities management and the teaching and research communities.
- Our team strives to be prudent stewards of Howard's resources and ethically responsible to protect people and the environment.
- Our team prides itself on integrity all while incorporating diversity of thought and treating each member of the community equitably, with professional courtesy, dignity and respect.