The document discusses efforts by UC Berkeley's Environment, Health & Safety department (EH&S) to improve safety culture on campus. EH&S is utilizing strategies like new training, policies, and social media campaigns promoting their "Safety is Part of Science" logo. At an event called Caltopia, over 600 people 'liked' the new UC Berkeley Lab Safety Facebook page and helped spread the safety message. The document provides several examples of EH&S initiatives and accomplishments, such as coordinating cleanups after spills, reviewing construction plans, conducting hazardous waste disposal, and developing systemwide programs recognized with awards.

1. Environment, Health & Safety
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2. Changing the Campus Culture
Challenge:
A 2009 lab researcher fatality at UCLA resulted in strict demands for safety
compliance in research laboratories across the UC System.
Changing the Culture:
EH&S is addressing this challenge in many ways including new safety
training, enhanced inspections, and new policies and guidelines. However, the
key to real change is changing the culture to embrace safety.
As part of the new Lab Safety Culture Change Initiative, EH&S developed the
new “Safety is Part of Science” logo and is utilizing social media to engage
students in spreading the message.
At the 2012 Caltopia event, the EH&S photo booth offered T-shirts with the new
logo as an incentive to take a photo and ‘like’ the newly launched UC Berkeley
Lab Safety Facebook page. Over 600 ‘likes’ were received that day.
Caltopia pictures were posted on the page and subsequent contests have kept
the page alive!
Caltopia! Come for the T-Shirt—Leave with the Message!
New Logo: Safety is
Part of Science

3. EH&S Beats the Odds in Stanley Hall Spill Clean-Up
What Happened…
Early December 2011 as the Holiday Season was gearing
up, 1,650 gallons of diesel fuel spilled from an emergency
generator into the basement of Stanley Hall.
Of the 1650 gallons spilled, 850 gallons entered
Strawberry Creek and flowed on into the San Francisco
Bay, contaminating creek vegetation and banks along
the way.
Although, according to federal agencies, an oil spill
recovery of 20% is considered successful, by January
31, 2012, close to 60% of the oil had been recovered and
agencies deemed the spill effectively cleaned up.
EH&S staff worked around-the-clock to re-open the building
in time for final exams and coordinate the extensive
environmental cleanup.
Thanks!!
Credit goes to the EH&S Environmental Protection Team:
Greg Haet, Rebecca Andersen, Karl Hans and Tim Pine for
their heroic efforts!!

4. EH&S Fire Marshals Contribute to Campus Construction
Many on campus may be unaware of the critical
role of the Fire Prevention (FP) team in
construction. Hundreds of sets of plans must be
reviewed for each new building and renovation,
and construction sites are frequently inspected.
The recent surge of building activity on campus has
meant many long hours for the FP team. In the
short period of three months in 2012 (May, June,
July) they helped to complete projects amounting
to a half-billion dollars.
The largest of these projects was the Memorial
Stadium; 220,509 square feet of interior occupied
space and 155,571 sq. ft. of stadium bowl seating.
The big challenge was to be ready to open for the
first game of the 2012 football season.

5. Environmental Cleanup Contributes to LBNL Siting New Campus at
Richmond Field Station
When Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) went
looking for a site to consolidate their biosciences
programs, UC-owned Richmond Field Station (RFS) was an
obvious possible location.
One hurdle: the RFS land had been contaminated in
years past by chemical waste from former chemical
manufacturing and blasting cap companies
previously located on, or near, the RFS.
The red tinged soil developed when former land
However, for over 10 years the EH&S Environmental owners dumped burned iron pyrite, a metal
Protection specialists not only coordinated the extensive recognizable to many as "fool's gold" used to
make sulfuric acid for an industrial process, on the
cleanup and marsh restoration activities required by
site.
California Environmental Protection Agency, but in 2005
launched a website to make remediation documents
available to the concerned local community.
The extensive documentation of site conditions, effective
community outreach, and significant progress on clean-
up activities contributed to UC’s successful bid for the
RFS to become the new home of LBNL’s second campus.
Clean up results by 2009

6. Campus Steam Tunnels—Making them Safe
Disturbing Situation
The campus utility tunnel system carries steam pipes and other
utilities through the center of the campus. Because of extreme heat
and other safety conditions, the Berkeley Fire Department (BFD) has
historically refused to enter the tunnels—even in emergencies. This
has been a cause of great concern for PP-CS and other workers who
regularly work in the tunnels.
Major Efforts
Over the past 2 years, EH&S-coordinated improvements have
increased the level of safety in the tunnels to such an extent that
the BFD used them as classrooms to host 6 Confined Space Entry
and Rescue drills for all BFD engine companies in early Winter
2011.
Thanks!!
Thanks to EH&S Health & Safety Team members
Jim Gilson, Roy Waller, and Gary Bayne.

7. Hazardous Waste Program:
A New Model
For 16 years EH&S was responsible for labeling and disposing of
hazardous waste from labs at UCB.
In November 2010 the rules changed and the campus was given
a short timeline to provide new procedures and train thousands
of lab researchers on the proper management and labeling of
hazardous materials.
A successful transition depended upon easing the burden being
shifted to lab personnel. The collaboration of EH&S
programming, training, and hazardous waste management
specialists resulted in an online training program and an
interactive web-based labeling process.
Result: In FY2011-12, over 2,400 researchers were trained and
more than 24,000 items were labeled, picked up and properly
disposed of by EH&S. The deadline was met and significant fines
were successfully avoided.

8. New EH&S Radiation Safety Officer
Carolyn MacKenzie — Nobel Contributor
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General
Mohammed ElBaradei and 2,000 staff members were awarded the 2005
Nobel Peace Prize for their “efforts to prevent nuclear energy from
being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy, for
peaceful purposes, is used in the safest way possible.” Carolyn
MacKenzie was part of the team.
In 2004, MacKenzie took a leave of absence from Lawrence Livermore
National Lab to take a position with IAEA in Vienna. The mission: locate
lost radioactive sources in developing countries. She began in the new
nations of the former Soviet Union, then went to the Balkans and China.
Carolyn measuring radiation Eventually she served for 4 years in Africa.
from a device used to scan
cargo containers in Ghana.
MacKenzie recalls the day the team received news of winning the
award. “Everyone was called down to the rotunda and Condoleezza Rice
was on the phone congratulating ElBaradei. It was poignant that the
group was recognized for keeping peace on the 50th anniversary of the
Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing.” The staff donated their monetary
award to an African food program serving children in need.
After almost 8 years of traveling and working in difficult
conditions, MacKenzie is happy to pass that baton to others. UCB is
fortunate that she has chosen to offer her considerable skills and
expertise to address the somewhat less challenging radiation safety
issues on campus.

9. Awards for Systemwide Leadership
Charles Borromeo
Individuals designated by the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) as a “Center of Excellence” are experts in
their field who are willing to create and manage a systemwide program in that field.
Hazardous Materials Shipping
When Charles Borromeo attended his first UCOP Risk Summit, he was
curious about the “Power of 10” award.” Told that it was an award to an
organization or group that develops a program or system that can be utilized
by all ten UC campuses he thought, “Everything I do is that!”. He immediately
decided to earn the award.
In 2010, Borromeo was named a Center of Excellence for Hazardous
Materials Shipping. In 2011, he won the Power of 10 award for his leadership
of the Hazardous Materials Shipping and Export Control Workgroup. The
group introduced standard and consistent processes making it simpler for
each campus to meet stringent regulatory requirements.
The Power of 10 award is only the beginning. Borromeo has set his sights
even higher. “Why not the ‘Power of 15’, or even the ‘Power of 16’ award?
This would include all the UC campuses, medical centers and perhaps even
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. I want the University of California to have
one policy on Hazardous Materials Shipping.”

10. Awards for Systemwide Leadership
Jim Gilson
Safety Engineering and Management
Jim Gilson was named a Center of Excellence in 2011, and in 2012 he
received the UCOP Power of 10 Award for leadership of the
systemwide Injury and Illness Prevention Workgroup.
He doesn’t feel he can take all the credit. “… I think about it as a
shared award with our EH&S Health and Safety team because we are
doing some extraordinary stuff here.”
Gilson feels that more needs to be done to benefit other campuses.
“Now we have written forms, documents and charters that will last
longer than I will, and my goal is to fully implement these structures in
the academic and research world.”
Despite being a consultant for not just for all ten UC campuses, but for
most campuses in North America, Gilson is reluctant to call himself an
expert. “I simply offer a new approach and viewpoint on how to
manage processes and situations. I help to streamline and make them
more cost-effective, incorporating safety into in-line operations
management.”
Regarding his success, Gilson attributes it to being able to do what he
loves.