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Find emergency, travel-safety, shop-safety, building, facilities, and safety-form resources.

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Safety Information

Safety contacts and response guidance for travel planning, emergency preparation, and student activity coordination.

  • Emergency Action Plans are intended to help trip leaders prepare response resources and make decisions before a crisis happens.
  • A domestic travel EAP should identify the trip name, destinations, travel dates, program leader and co-leader contacts, student contacts, local emergency resources, clinic or hospital details, and communication plans.
  • Before departure, decide how students contact leaders, how leaders contact students, where the group meets if phones fail, and what happens if a leader or student is sick, injured, or otherwise unavailable.
  • General incident response starts with ensuring the physical space is safe, accounting for students, assessing issues and resources, using on-site support, assisting with emergency contact communication, documenting actions, and keeping the school director informed.

Forms and documents

Forms

Energy-control, hazard-assessment, shop-inspection, travel-safety, and related safety forms.

Facilities Information

Virginia Tech resources for building, maintenance, fleet, and facilities questions.

College and VT Safety Policies

Safety expectations for shops, studios, shared work areas, build projects, and other AAD spaces.

  • The AAD shop safety policy applies to AAD shops and to faculty, staff, and enrolled students using those shops.
  • No one may use shop machinery or access the active shop area without completing the minimum required EHS training modules and shop-specific equipment orientation.
  • The shop safety policy lists these minimum EHS training modules: Hazcom Right To Know, Machine Shop Safety, PPE Awareness, and Portable Fire Extinguisher.
  • Shop supervisors maintain Safety Management System records, update Safety Data Sheets and Hazard Communication Plans, attend annual shop safety committee meetings, and make safety materials available.
  • Unsafe work or lack of required PPE triggers progressive enforcement: immediate correction, removal after a second violation in the same semester until safety counseling, and loss of access after a third violation for the semester or another determined period.

More resources

Additional pages and documents from the previous Inside AAD site are available as readable web pages while they are reviewed and folded into the right section.