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 https://ehs.mit.edu.

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, substances and emergency contacts to principal investigators (PI) or supervisors.
  View hazards definitions ..
• Room: Create/Change/Display: Print out "Greencard" or emergency contact information for each room and to update a room's potential hazards.
  View hazards definitions ..
• Annual Chemical Reporting: Chemical Reporters can update and submit annual chemical 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

MIT Learning Center: one-stop-shop to fulfill cross-institute training needs:

• My Profile: to complete EHS training by identifying EHS Training Needs. (Note: also includes tabs for Students with requirements based on an academic subject, and for people who are members of groups with requirements based on role, job or other affiliations.)
• My Training: to enroll in classroom sessions and complete web-based required EHS courses. If applicable, access other non-EHS recommended training. View training history / status.
• EHS Training Tools (for those with EHS-MS roles): provides the ability to run EHS training reports, maintain training group members, and upload course completion. And for EHS Reps, it links to other Training Resources e.g. Lab Specific training materials, Training FAQ, etc.
• Training Reconciliation: the tool used by Training Reconcilers to review, update and correct the list of people affiliated with their PI/Supervisors in the EHS Training Needs
• Instructor and Training Admin: to check course session enrollment, print course rosters, email individual or groups of trainees and other administrative functions.

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 Level II Inspections, and PI Space and Chemical 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 and to prepare annual SARA report for submission to regulators.

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