The mission of the Risk Management Department is to plan, develop, coordinate and maintain the UW-River Falls safety and risk programs. The purpose of these programs is to provide a safe and healthy work environment for university employees and reduce the number, severity and costs of workplace injuries and other types of losses. This mission is being accomplished by the following activities:  

• Developing proactive loss prevention and control programs and techniques that will eliminate or reduce the risk of a workplace injury or illness.
• Developing, coordinating and sponsoring responsive health and safety training programs for employees, supervisors and managers.
• Providing resources and technical assistance to enable UWRF to comply with applicable Department of Commerce/OSHA health and safety regulations and the Governor's Executive Order #194.
• Developing positive relationships.
• Coordinating loss prevention surveys and hazard assessments.
• Identifying the risk factors that contribute to losses and the strategies and resources needed to eliminate or control these risk factors.
• Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of safety and risk programs and activities to insure that those program goals are achieved.

Goals – 2011   

1. Perform 12 safety walkthroughs of main campus buildings and at least 6 walkthroughs of residence halls during 2011.  Draft action plans for addressing safety concerns. 
2. Participate in at least one safety walk sponsored by Student Senate.  
3. Implement new Accident Reporting Program on campus. Train employees by 3/1/2011. Raise awareness for campus on timely reporting by publishing quarterly articles in Falcon Daily. Meet or exceed system goals for on time FROI reporting. Determine follow up when reporting goals are not met.   
4. Identify at least one safety process or program on campus that needs improvement and research a "Best Practice" model.  Implement the Best Practice model at UWRF.  
5. Using OSHA Voluntary Protection Program criteria for effective safety and health programs as a guide, perform a gap analysis and draft an action plan for improvement.
6. Obtain at least one grant in 2011 that will address a safety need on campus.
7. Leverage aspects of health and safety to justify at least 4 campus projects during 2011.