Mission & Vision

Mission and Vision

Our vision is to ensure that all members of the Western community are empowered and equipped with the knowledge needed to foster a safe, caring, and inclusive environment.

Our mission is to collaborate with students, faculty, and staff to build a culture of safety, care, and inclusion through education, engagement, and shared responsibility. 

We strive for professionalism, efficiency, and accountability for university resources.  We work transparently, take planned risks and embrace the best new ideas in pursuing sustainable practices that protect the health and safety of our people and environment.

Safe Western Project

We at EHS deal with the effects of workplace injury and illness on a daily basis. We see the impact these have on members of the Western community and how it can affect their family and friends. All the while knowing that so much of it need not happen.

With this project we hope to raise awareness within the Western community and, ultimately, within the greater community of which we are a part. 
Awareness of:

• The ability we all have to keep ourselves and others from harm.
• The many ways we can put this ability to use.
• The fact that we are all in this together.
• The fact that keeping ourselves and others from harm doesn’t stop at the end of the workday or the edge of campus.