About Safety and Risk Services

Cultivating a resilient world-class university that is future-ready, risk aware, and not risk-averse.

The Division of Safety and Risk Services' (SRS) charge is to provide leadership and expertise in safeguarding life, health, university property, and the environment while reducing the university’s vulnerability to conditions adversely affecting its primary mission of education, research, service, and strategic initiatives.

Six Core Service Areas

Analysis and Consultative Services: Provides innovative data-collection, analysis, and expertise that helps create systems to identify risks and environmental and health safety needs and to recommend action items. These services aim to advance safety and organizational resilience across the university. 

Coordination and Facilitation Services: Coordinates and leads intra-disciplinary teams utilizing principled problem solving for safety and risk related areas across university operations.  

Crisis and Organizational Resilience Leadership: Provides expertise and guidance to the university community to mitigate, respond to, recover from, and maintain continuity in an incident or emergency. This includes managing the logistical, fiscal, planning, operational, safety, and myriad issues involved. 

Enterprise Risk Management: Identifies and calculates the value of risks, finds ways to mitigate them financially, and manages the recovery process when events occur.

Law Enforcement and Physical Security: Provides comprehensive physical security and law enforcement services to ensure the safety and well-being of students, faculty, and staff. This includes 24/7 campus patrols, response, crime prevention programs, access control, and collaboration with local law enforcement agencies.

Training and Outreach: Provides training and outreach to the campus community to increase awareness and understanding of safety and risk concepts. 

Guiding Principles

  • Integrity: We work honestly, fairly, and in line with policies, procedures, and professional best practices.
  • Collaborative: We strive to build trust, operate with a unity of purpose, build teams, networks, and consensus, and facilitate communication and learning.
  • Objective: We approach issues with an open mind, empathy, kindness, and respect.  
  • Navigational: We apply comprehensive, evidence-based research, standards, and data to navigate complex issues, assign priorities, and maximize efficiency.
  • Innovative: We lead by example and use creative, cutting-edge problem-solving approaches.
  • Change Ready: We engage with others and proactively plan to help the university become future-ready.

Organizational Structure

The Division of Safety and Risk Services includes departments, units, and programs working to advance the UO mission, in a safe, efficient, and resilient manner.

University Resilience Programs

Environmental Health and Safety

Location Innovation Lab and Campus GIS and Mapping

Risk Management and Insurance

University Police Department

  • Police Operations Group
  • Police Administrative Group
  • Security Operations Center
  • Physical Security Office
  • Portland Campus