Inspection Requirements
The environmental regulatory agency with jurisdiction for San Francisco, the Certified Unified Program Agency, (CUPA), requires quarterly environmental inspections of areas using or storing hazardous materials.
SFSU has ~ 160 of such areas on campus. They are being inspected on a quarterly basis, by teams of EH&S trained student aides using a customized on-line environmental inspection tool that SFSU EH&S developed with the UC’s RSS group. Student environmental lab inspections are overseen and collated by the EH&S staff senior environmental specialist, who also tracks inspection findings to closure.
CY 2023 Update
In CY 2023, 85% of quarterly hazmat area inspections were completed.
Laboratories being prepared for relocation or closure were not inspected for this calendar year.