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In appreciation for their service to their country, and in recognition of the time and advantage lost toward the pursuit of a civilian career, Eligible Veterans and National Guard shall be granted preference in University employment.

The specific purpose of this policy is to establish requirements for guarding floor openings, wall openings, and holes. This policy is to serve as a reference to the OSHA regulations that UNC Environment, Health and Safety, supervisors, and employees are required to uphold.

This General Order (G.O.) ensures that officer status indicators are visually available to each telecommunicator and that the status of all on-duty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) Police Department officers and security guards is recorded.

This policy is to establish requirements for the safety of UNC employees while working in close proximity to machinery with hazardous moving parts. The purpose of machine guarding is to protect the machine operator and other employees in the work area from hazards created by ingoing nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks. There are as many hazards created by moving parts as there are types of machines. Safeguards are essential for protecting workers from needless injuries.

Leave shall be granted to eligible employees for certain periods of service in the uniformed services. No agent or employee of the State shall discriminate against any State employee or applicant for State employment because of their membership, application for membership, performance of service, application for service, or obligation for service in the Uniformed Services.

The purpose of this policy is to provide a safe and healthful environment throughout the University facilities in the general office setting. These requirements shall apply to all office work units as a minimum standard of general office safety. This policy prescribes safety precautions to be observed by employees in office areas.

The purpose of this section is to promote the safe use of, and to reduce the likelihood of injuries involving the use of hand or power tools.

This chapter lists and describes several major categories of hazardous materials and/or hazardous operations that you could work with in your lab. For each category, the chapter includes recommended safe work practices and regulatory requirements (if applicable).

The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines for safe work practices due to the inherent dangers and potential hazards associated with various types of complex equipment inside mechanical rooms. The potential for serious incident resulting in injury and/or property damage mandates that this policy be strictly enforced.

UNC employees and contractors must be aware of potential hazards associated with accessing campus roofs, and this policy has been developed to assist in mitigating those hazards.

Experimental procedures involving radioactive and/or bio-hazardous materials frequently require the use of building vacuum systems or vacuum pumps. Such procedures can result in the accidental contamination of the vacuum system or laboratory pump with hazardous aerosols or fluids. The vacuum system or laboratory pump must be protected with a secondary reservoir and disposable filter assembly when this possibility for contamination exists.

Those employees who perform their job duties over or near water including but not limited to inspectors, wildlife personnel, and research personnel shall follow the minimum operation requirements designed to prevent injury or fatality from falling into the water (as required by OSHA 1926.106).

The following requirements are designed to eliminate or reduce injuries involving the handling and storage of materials, whether performed manually or through automation. These requirements shall apply to all UNC work areas where materials are handled or stored in the workplace. Nothing in these requirements shall relieve the University from the compliance requirements of other regulatory agencies whether federal, state, or local.

X-Ray diffraction and spectrographic devices generate in-beam radiation dose rates of 30 to 7000 rads/sec. Severe tissue damage can be inflicted by very brief exposures to these high dose rates. Surgical treatment or amputation may be required when small body parts, such as fingers, receive greater than 1000 rads.

On occasion, the Office of Human Resources will be asked to verify citizenship for an employee in order for him/her to conduct University business (for example, access to external confidential systems and information). Upon receipt of the request to verify citizenship, the Employment & Staffing Services department will request that the employee present evidence of citizenship, review the documentation provided and if verified, sign the attestation of citizenship.