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

  • Analytical: We apply comprehensive, evidence-based research, standards, and data in assigning priorities, and we maximize efficiencies.
  • Change Ready: We engage with others and proactively plan to enable the university to be future-ready.
  • Collaborative: We strive to build trust, teams, networks, and consensus. We operate with a unity of purpose and facilitate communication and learning.  
  • Objective: We approach issues with open minds and empathy.
  • Innovative: We lead by example and use creative, cutting-edge approaches to problem-solving.
  • Integrity: We work honestly, fairly, and in line with policies, procedures and professional best practices.  

Organization Chart

Vice President and Chief Resilience Officer, André Le Duc

Office of the Chief Resilience Officer

Environmental Health and Safety

  • Research Safety Services
    • Laboratory Safety
    • Hazardous Materials
  • Environmental Services
  • Occupational Health and Safety
  • University Fire Marshal 

University Police Department

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