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Keeping our patients, visitors, and staff safe
Our Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) team of 40 safety professionals look after more than 40 locations, 24/7 and 365 days a year. EHS makes sure all our sites are safe to visit, work in, and receive treatment.
Environmental Health & Safety Opportunities
Here’s where you start protecting staff, visitors, and patients
Use your diverse skills and experiences to help shape enterprise-wide safety programming & strategies from industrial hygiene to ergonomics and research to admin facilities. Whether you’re just starting your career or are a seasoned professional, there is room to grow with EHS. We offer generalist, specialist, administrative, and leadership jobs to suit your aspirations.
Construction Safety
MSK’s growth as an institution has led to the expansion of our construction safety program. EHS is involved in all construction projects at MSK to ensure job sites and surrounding areas are safe during pre-construction, construction, and post-construction phases.
Emergency Management & Response
Our EHS team members are trained to respond to various emergencies, incidents, or issues, whether in New York City, New Jersey, Westchester, or Long Island. Any given time or day, EHS is the first point of contact for indoor air quality issues, fire alarms, life safety emergencies, floods or water leaks, gas leaks, physical safety issues, and more.
Additionally, our Emergency Management team plans and conducts exercises to continuously improve MSK’s strategies for handling any type of emergencies.
Environmental Management
Our Environmental Management program covers general environmental management functions and compliance, waste management, spills, oil handling and storage, air emissions, wastewater, and chemical use reporting.
Fire & Life Safety
EHS handles all matters related to fire and life safety training, drills, protection systems, extinguishers, hot work, event safety, and more. Our department assesses all instances of a possible impairment to fire or life safety to ensure appropriate interim measures are in place. EHS also manages fire system vendors responsible for testing and maintaining MSK buildings.
Hazardous Materials & Waste
EHS is the point of contact for all matters related to chemical, biological, and hazardous materials enterprise-wide, including general safety, handling, storage, waste, and spills not just in patient care space but in the hundreds of research and clinical laboratories within MSK.
Our wide-reaching chemical safety program addresses chemical storage and inventory issues, hazard communication, chemical exhaust ventilation, and other chemical safety-related issues.
Similarly, our biological safety program extends to all areas of MSK, including both clinical and research arms. EHS conducts biosafety assessments and training and is involved with the Institutional Biosafety Committee.
EHS conducts PPE assessments and all respiratory fit testing for the institution to ensure that our employees are protected from exposure to chemical and biological agents.
Health & Safety
EHS implements and oversees all programs related to health and safety, such as ergonomics, hearing conservation, PPE, physical hazards (facilities safety), injury prevention, and office safety. We also administer an Industrial Hygiene program to address exposure monitoring and control.
Regulatory Compliance
EHS’s responsibilities involve regulatory compliance, including all local, state, and federal environmental health and safety standards. EHS staff members are involved in inspections and permitting and provide resources and advisement in preparation for surveys or other regulatory activities.
Construction Safety
MSK’s growth as an institution has led to the expansion of our construction safety program. EHS is involved in all construction projects at MSK to ensure job sites and surrounding areas are safe during pre-construction, construction, and post-construction phases.
Emergency Management & Response
Our EHS team members are trained to respond to various emergencies, incidents, or issues, whether in New York City, New Jersey, Westchester, or Long Island. Any given time or day, EHS is the first point of contact for indoor air quality issues, fire alarms, life safety emergencies, floods or water leaks, gas leaks, physical safety issues, and more.
Additionally, our Emergency Management team plans and conducts exercises to continuously improve MSK’s strategies for handling any type of emergencies.
Environmental Management
Our Environmental Management program covers general environmental management functions and compliance, waste management, spills, oil handling and storage, air emissions, wastewater, and chemical use reporting.
Fire & Life Safety
EHS handles all matters related to fire and life safety training, drills, protection systems, extinguishers, hot work, event safety, and more. Our department assesses all instances of a possible impairment to fire or life safety to ensure appropriate interim measures are in place. EHS also manages fire system vendors responsible for testing and maintaining MSK buildings.
Hazardous Materials & Waste
EHS is the point of contact for all matters related to chemical, biological, and hazardous materials enterprise-wide, including general safety, handling, storage, waste, and spills not just in patient care space but in the hundreds of research and clinical laboratories within MSK.
Our wide-reaching chemical safety program addresses chemical storage and inventory issues, hazard communication, chemical exhaust ventilation, and other chemical safety-related issues.
Similarly, our biological safety program extends to all areas of MSK, including both clinical and research arms. EHS conducts biosafety assessments and training and is involved with the Institutional Biosafety Committee.
EHS conducts PPE assessments and all respiratory fit testing for the institution to ensure that our employees are protected from exposure to chemical and biological agents.
Health & Safety
EHS implements and oversees all programs related to health and safety, such as ergonomics, hearing conservation, PPE, physical hazards (facilities safety), injury prevention, and office safety. We also administer an Industrial Hygiene program to address exposure monitoring and control.
Regulatory Compliance
EHS’s responsibilities involve regulatory compliance, including all local, state, and federal environmental health and safety standards. EHS staff members are involved in inspections and permitting and provide resources and advisement in preparation for surveys or other regulatory activities.
Safety Advisor Program
Safety Specialists
Safety Advisors are our first line of defense of all safety matters. Stationed at our York Avenue location, Safety Advisors are assigned specific areas or serve as general responders to emergencies and safety-related incidents, conduct inspections and risk assessments, manage hazardous waste, and more.
HEAR FROM OUR EMPLOYEES
I leave with a sense of pride and fulfillment at the end of each day knowing that my day to day work was critical in ensuring the safety of the MSK community.
HEAR FROM OUR EMPLOYEES
“We care” is not only a slogan, but it’s a reality at MSK.
HEAR FROM OUR EMPLOYEES
MSK really cares about the health and safety of their employees. I have the reward of helping our staff do their jobs more efficiently and comfortably.