In order to ensure a safe environment for study and work, KGI faculty and staff, and particularly all supervisors, carry the basic responsibility to make safety their concern.

Purpose and Scope

This fundamental safety policy applies to all employees, students and visitors to KGI. It is supplemented by the more specific policies and procedures in this series.

Policy

In order to ensure a safe environment for study and work, KGI faculty and staff, and particularly all supervisors, carry the basic responsibility to make safety their concern. KGI will:

  • Establish and maintain a healthy and safe environment for study and work and for sanctioned activities of students, faculty, staff, and visitors
  • Insist upon safe equipment, methods and practices at all times
  • Address and report unsafe conditions and take actions to ensure safe procedures are known and practiced
  • Protect the environment to the maximum extent feasible
  • Comply with applicable laws, regulations, and relevant published standards and practices for laboratory research and for the workplace
  • Consider the health and safety of students, faculty, staff, and visitors in the design, operation, construction, modification, or renovation of buildings and facilities
  • Provide periodic training and safety exercises for the KGI campus community
  • Appoint a KGI Safety Officer, currently the Director of Human Resources
  • Maintain an Emergency Preparedness Committee
  • Regularly disseminate information about My Safe Campus for anonymous reporting of concerns about safety, and the LiveSafe smart phone app to aid personal safety

Information about KGI Campus Safety

KGI is served by an assigned security officer in the 517 building, room B122 (phone 657.474.2006)

The function of KGI Campus Safety is to protect life and property, to help maintain an environment conducive to the academic endeavors of the colleges, to enforce vehicle and parking regulations and to perform other related duties. Safety personnel are on duty 24 hours a day to handle calls for service.