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  2007 Hospitals for a Healthy Environment Leadership Award
  
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  Lowest injury cost per employee among all health education institutions in Texas
  
  
• UTHSCSA reduced occupational injury claims by 10% from 2001 to 2002
  
  
• UTHSCSA awarded State of Texas Environmental Excellence Award
  
  
• UTHSCSA awarded San Antonio Water System (SAWS) Environmental Excellence Award
  
  
• UTHSCSA recognized as a TCEQ Clean Texas, Cleaner World Partner
  
  
• UTHSCSA awarded the Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) Partner for Change Award
  

Dr. Michael Charlton, Assistant Vice President for Risk Management and Safety

The mission of the Environmental Health and Safety Department is to provide a workplace free of recognized hazards that is conducive to worldclass education, research, and patient care as well as Institutional research committee support and emergency response.
We are dedicated to assisting in the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of physical and health hazards in the UTHSCSA educational and work environment.