Environmental Health and Safety

Led by Director, Teresa DuCroix, the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) team at Toronto Metropolitan University is deeply committed to the health and safety of our community. The team leads, guides and supports environmental health and safety excellence and innovation to enable Toronto Metropolitan to achieve its vision and priorities.

General inquiries
416-979-5000, ext. 553770
ehs @torontomu.ca

Teresa DuCroix
Director, Environmental Health and Safety
416-979-5000, ext. 553079
teresa.ducroix@torontomu.ca

The EHS team partners with all academic and administrative departments and provides technical expertise, education and leadership to help build capacity and innovative solutions to cultivate safe, healthy and environmentally responsible operations, teaching and research.

Wearing PPE in a laboratory when working with hazardous chemicals.

What we do

EHS provides consulting and advisory services on all environmental health and safety matters. The team is accountable for developing environmental health and safety programs that support the safe and healthy functioning of TMUs operations as well as all scholarly, research and creative (SRC).

EHS responds and supports the university in incident management, investigation and corrective action planning in cases of workplace incidents or injuries, hazards and hazardous materials incidents and spills, and public health threats.

The team is TMUs key resource for environmental health and safety and conducts related training, risk assessments and investigations to help ensure we meet university policies and procedures and regulatory requirements.

Who we are: Find your departmental EHS advisor

Choose your department to find your EHS advisor contact details.

For matters pertaining to biosafety, radiation permits and chemical safety program inquiries, please contact:

Tanya Vlaskalin
Manager Radiation, Chemical and Biological Safety
Email: tatjana.vlaskalin@torontomu.ca
Phone: 416-979-5000, ext. 554212

Environmental Health and Safety

What we do

Who we are: Find your departmental EHS advisor

Athletics and Recreation

Career, Co-op and Student Success

The Chang School of Continuing Education

Community Safety and Security

Computing and Communications Services

Equity, Community and Inclusion

Facilities Management and Development

Faculty of Arts

Faculty of Community Services

Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Science

Financial Services

General Counsel and Board Secretariat

Human Resources

Internal Audit

International Student Enrolment, Education & Inclusion

Library

Office of the President

Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation

Registrar's Office

Senate

Student Affairs

Student Wellbeing

Ted Rogers School of Management

The Creative School

The Image Centre

University Advancement

University Business Services

University Planning

University Relations

Yeates School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies