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• Establish lines of responsibility for safety;• Report safety results to the president or chancellor, or their designee; and• Review reports from department chairs about the status of their safety programs,including the safety curricula.Department Chairs• Identify a CHO or departmental safety officer;• Establish safety responsibilities for faculty, staff, and students;• Establish curricular goals for safety education;• Ensure faculty, staff, laboratory supervisors, and teaching assistants involved in teachingand overseeing laboratory operations have attended a principle-based safety course;• Establish a budget for the health and safety program to ensure the safety of employees,visitors, and students;• Establish a safety committee and appoints safety committee members;• Ensure the development and implementation of safe practices, safety protocols, andsafety rules for undergraduate and graduate laboratories and other affiliated shops,storerooms, stockrooms, and corridors within their purview;• Ensure all safety training is documented;• Ensure all safety practices, protocols, and safety rules are enforced and responsibleemployees are held accountable;• Establish a system for reporting safety problems and issues;• Conduct regular faculty and staff reviews on meeting safety goals;• Report safety program results to the dean or administrator; and• Work with EHS to establish regular inspections of both teaching and researchlaboratories.Faculty• Implements the curricular goals for safety education;• Ensures principle-based safety education and safety training is provided to students andstaff within their laboratories;• Ensures safety is discussed at the beginning of each research group meeting;• Ensures new graduate students have received a principle-based safety course andspecific safety training relating to their areas of research;• Participates in the development of the Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP);44