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EHS Assistant Database Scheduled Maintenance
We are excited to announce that EHS Assistant will undergo an important upgrade on Tuesday, October 22, 2024. As part of this process, the system will be down starting at 12:00 PM (noon) for the remainder of the day. It is expected to be back up and fully operational by Wednesday morning, October 23, 2024.
Updated October 14, 2024
Self Directed Phone Assistance at EHS
When you call EHS's main number (882-7018), your call will be answered by an auto-attendant service. To assist you in making the choice you need quickly (which you can enter at any time) please see the key below. Press...
- For questions about unwanted materials or collection of such or to reach the chemical/equipment redistribution program
- For assistance with shipping hazardous materials (chem, rad, bio) both on campus and offsite
- For other lab safety questions (general, chem, rad, bio)
- For safety questions not related to laboratories
- For environmental questions including indoor air, asbestos, lead, air/water pollution and industrial hygiene
- For assistance with EHSA - the Environmental Health and Safety Assistant Online Web Portal
- For financial or administrative issues or to reach the EHS front desk
Updated March 27, 2023
Updated Biosafety Cabinet Certification Contact
The University of Missouri's contracted and approved vendor for providing Biosafety Cabinet(BSC) certifications/repairs is ACE Laboratory Systems. All scheduling appointments must be made through ACE.
THe point of contact has recently changed. Current information is shown below.
Liza Tejada
ACE Laboratory Systems, Inc
Phone: 314-771-7272, Option 1
lizat@acelabsystems.com
Updated March 10, 2023
HSI Training Portal Now Live
EHS has completed the migration of all EHS online training courses from OneCanvas to a new Learning Management System (LMS) titled HSI. To access this new LMS your employees must first login to EHS Assistant and then visit the embedded EHS Training Portal. A tutorial demonstrating the EHS Online Training Portal and HSI Training Portal can be found on the EHSA tutorial page. Please verify/update your worker roster in EHS Assistant so your employees will be able to access training resources. A tutorial for adding and removing workers from your worker roster can be found on the EHSA tutorial page as well. If you have any questions, please feel free to call (573) 882-7018 or email ehs@missouri.edu for assistance.
Updated February 1, 2022
Updated Process to Obtain Prescription Safety Glasses
While EHS is no longer actively involved in the process to obtain prescription safety glasses, we continue to provide instructions for the process as a service to campus. With the aid of Mizzou Optical, the process has been largely streamlined. See the updated instructions at https://ehs.missouri.edu/ppe/rx-safety-glasses. Contact Mizzou Optical with any questions.
Updated March 30, 2021
New Version of EHS Assistant Now Live
On January 7, 2021, EHS migrated to a new all-web based version (4.0) of our interactive software: Environmental Health & Safety Assistant (aka EHS Assist or EHSA. Access to the software is via the same URL (https://ehs.missouri.edu/ehsa) but there are also about 20 (and growing) all-new tutorials to help users with the new interface at https://ehs.missouri.edu/ehsa_tutorial . We believe these will answer most of the common questions but if additional assistance is necessary please call EHS at 882-7018 during regular business hours (M-F, 7:30-4) and select the appropriate option. You can also email us at ehs@missouri.edu.
Updated January 7, 2021
