Occupational Safety
Tidewater Community College is committed to providing a healthy work and learning environment for all employees, contract staff, students, and visitors. The Public Safety Department ensures TCC’s compliance with federal and state occupational safety and health regulations, relevant environmental regulations, TCC and VCCS safety policies, consensus industry guidelines, and the Commonwealth of Virginia Executive Order 109 (2010).
Classroom Occupational Safety & Health Plan Policy
Download the PlanHazard prevention and control programs
While offices and classrooms are relatively safe environments, they do present risks that are often overlooked. The programs, resources, and links below are provided to ensure a healthy environment for the college community.
This program ensures all chemicals, and/or products used by TCC are evaluated and information regarding their hazards are communicated to employees.
This program protects the health and safety of employees who, due to the nature of their jobs, are potentially at risk of being exposed to blood or other potentially infectious materials (OPIM).
This program establishes the standard precautions and procedures that must be implemented to eliminate potential hazards and ensure workers’ safe entry into permit-required confined spaces. This program also covers permit-required confined space entry performed by contractors.
This program establishes procedures to prevent worker exposure to unexpected hazardous energy associated with the service and maintenance of machines, equipment, or systems. It also outlines the college’s administrative lockout and tagout control procedures. Only authorized employees may apply lockout procedures.
This program establishes a process by which all courses are assessed to determine risk levels and implement safe teaching practices to minimize these risks. This program also assigns responsibility and procedures for compliance with federal and state safety and health regulations as well as TCC safety policies, and VCCS safety policies within the teaching environment.
All instructional activities are evaluated using the Instructional Program Hazard Analysis Tool. Deans and/or their faculty designee(s) will use this worksheet to evaluate courses to determine their risk levels (Part 1) and also to select the appropriate personal protective equipment to minimize exposure to these hazards (Part 2).
TCC safety training
- Safe Teaching Environment 2015
- Philips Heartstart AED Demo
- Hazard Communication Training – Revised Globally Harmonized System (GHS)
- OSHA Maritime Industry Safety Courses
Other safety resources
- MSDS Online Database (a help tutorial is located in the upper right corner of the dashboard)
- Virginia Department of Labor and Industry
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Department of Transportation (DOT)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT)
Contact
Beverly Crandell
Safety Program Coordinator
Phone: 757-822-1967
Email: bcrandell@tcc.edu