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Contact UsThe safety and health of employees is a Biola priority. The university strives to comply with all federal and state workplace safety requirements and enacts other measures, as required, to minimize the risk of injury or illness resulting from work or the work environment.
University jobs are reviewed and assigned a safety classification. Jobs with common work areas, assignments, and occupational hazards have been grouped into the same classification. A safety program, which includes analysis of hazards, the establishment of Codes of Safe Practice, the training of employees, and periodic inspections of work areas, has been developed for each job safety classification.
Supervisors are directly responsible for seeing that each employee in his/her area uses only safe procedures and equipment and that each employee has received appropriate safety training, in conjunction with the Occupational Safety Coordinator in Human Resources. Supervisors are responsible for developing proper attitudes and a healthy awareness toward safety, both in themselves and those in their area of responsibility.
As they are able to do so themselves, supervisors are expected to correct any hazardous condition or practice in their departments that comes to their attention. If correction of the safety problem is beyond the supervisor's ability to correct, the supervisor must report the safety problem to the Occupational Safety Coordinator without unnecessary delay. Employees are asked to report a work hazard or unsafe condition or practice either directly to their supervisors or anonymously, if preferred, to the Occupational Safety Coordinator.
Biola will not tolerate the subjecting of an employee to any form of reprisal or discrimination from his/her supervisor or any other Biola employee for reporting an unsafe condition or practice, an unrecognized hazard, or a suggestion to improve workplace safety.
Corrective disciplinary action may be taken if:
- An employee knowingly violates departmental or institutional safety rules
- An employee is injured or causes someone else to be injured, as a result of dangerous horseplay
- A supervisor fails either to correct or report for correction, in a reasonable time frame, an unsafe departmental condition or practice of which he/she has knowledge
- A supervisor knowingly exposes an employee to imminent danger from serious hazards
- An employee is subjected to reprisals or discrimination from a supervisor or coworker because the employee has reported an unsafe condition or practice, an unrecognized hazard, or a suggestion to improve workplace safety
Biola University desires that all facilities of this institution be safe for use by all authorized faculty, staff, students, and visitors. In striving to reach institutional objectives, the safety of the individual must have precedence over expediency.
Injury/Illness
Employees should report all work-related injuries and accidents immediately to their supervisors, and then follow the steps outlined in section 5.31, Workers’ Compensation Insurance.
If a serious medical crisis strikes a faculty member, staff member, or student, the paramedics are to be contacted via Campus Safety at extension 5111. Paramedics should not be contacted directly. Victims with possible back injuries should not be moved.
All minor injuries requiring first aid may be reported to the Student Health Center. Faculty members should report student injuries to the Student Development office. Accidents involving non-Biola personnel must be reported to the Finance office (ext. 4716).
Supervisors are also responsible for proper and thorough documentation of all accidents, injuries. or incidents related to safety hazards or violations of safety rules. Such documentation must be made to Human Resources immediately (ext. 5207).
