Report 2017-119 Recommendation 72 Responses

Report 2017-119: California State University: It Has Not Provided Adequate Oversight of the Safety of Employees and Students Who Work With Hazardous Materials (Release Date: April 2018)

Recommendation #72 To: Sacramento, California State University

Sacramento should immediately begin following its policies to conduct departmental self-audits to identify and address safety concerns in its laboratories. Further, Sacramento should ensure that its self-audits review whether timely flushes of eyewashes and showers have occurred.

6-Month Agency Response

Sacramento State completed departmental self-audits to identify and address safety concerns in its laboratories. The self-audits reviewed whether timely flushes of eyewashes and showers occurred. Self-audits will continue to take place at least once per semester as required by campus policy.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Fully Implemented

Sacramento provided evidence that it conducts departmental self-audits to identify and address safety concerns in its laboratories and that its self-audits review whether timely flushes of eyewashes and showers have occurred. So long as Sacramento continues this practice, it will fully implement our recommendation.

60-Day Agency Response

Sacramento State is committed to following its policies to conduct departmental self-audits to identify and address safety concerns in its laboratories. The campus Environmental Health and Safety office has met with departments that use laboratories to remind them of self-audit requirements, including the requirement to review whether timely flushes of eyewashes and showers have occurred, and to identify who will be responsible for ensuring self-audits occur. Sacramento State will follow up with these departments to ensure that departmental self-audits are occurring.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending

All Recommendations in 2017-119

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.