CSHEMA - Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association

Past Symposia

CSHEMA Spring Symposium 2025: Complete Campus EHS: Puro, Toda, and Por Vida

University of Texas San Antonio I February 26-27, 2025

WHAT IS COMPLETE CAMPUS EHS? It's how you work to roll out EHS programs and initiatives on campus in a thorough manner, keeping all of your stakeholders engaged, for everyone from a small undergraduate degree-only school to a large academic medical center. Keeping true to the geography and cultural makeup of San Antonio, Texas, the emphasis is on puro – doing it your way, toda – doing it all the way, 100% - doing it across all affected parts of the organization, and por vida – doing it in a lasting and sustainable way.  We want to know how you do it!

Puro: Make the work done on your campus INNOVATIVE, UNIQUE, ORGANIC, GRASSROOTS.

Toda: Get an important project across the finish line! Identify the obstacles. Overcome and get around those challenges.

100%: Involve more than EHS! Total safety, across departments. 

Por Vida: Establish continuity of programs and projects that are sustainable long-term.

2024 Symposium: All Shook Up: Electrical Safety

University of Wisconsin - Madison | April 10-11, 2024

Consider how to incorporate and encourage all manner of electrical safety at our institutions, share best practices, and learn how we can better collaborate with each other, our students, and our researchers. We discussed topics such as Facilities Trades, NRTL issues Research / Home Builts, LOTO/ArcFlash, Li-Ion Batteries, Solar / Direct Power safety, and much more.

2023 Symposium: Beyond the Bench: Field Research Safety

University of California at Santa Barbara | February 27-28, 2023

Field research is a vital component of research and education at many institutions, however relatively few institutions have dedicated programs that manage the risks associated with the unique hazards and challenges associated with these settings. As an up-and-coming area in academic EHS programs, we need your help to define best practices. Join us and share your successes, challenges, and lessons learned so we can improve all things related to field research safety.

Fall Symposium on Storytelling

Princeton University | October 11-12, 2022

Enjoy the Keynote Presentation from Brad Snyder, Paralympic swimmer and triathlete, world record holder, retired US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Officer, and Princeton PhD candidate. Brad sustained complete vision loss while serving in Operation Enduring Freedom. He is also a fellow in the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy.

Storytelling is a part of our daily lives and part of how we survived long ago: from the family stories we pass on, the books we read, the movies we watch - the list goes on! While many may think of storytelling as a form of entertainment, it is also a transformative tool for safety culture, adult learning, sense- or meaning-making, bonding and relationship building, qualitative research and incident sharing. CSHEMA’s Fall Symposium on Storytelling will explore the science, art and power of storytelling with relation to environmental health and safety and risk management programs on campuses.

Spring Symposium

Chemical Safety: A Campus-Wide Opportunity | February 21-23, 2022

Our universities have a wide variety of chemical use and storage, and training regulations and challenges. The goal of this symposium is to leverage our collective knowledge on these topics to provide insight and unique strategies to help combat ever-growing requirements.

Virtual Fall Symposium

Resiliency & Change | October 13-14, 2021

As our universities see a rapid return to pre-COVID activity, EH&S professionals find themselves at the brink of change. The goal of this program is to capture the shifts in thinking and working, now with higher stakes involved. From changes to laboratory inspections, to the ergonomics of shared (hotel and work) spaces, EH&S professionals find themselves balancing risks in a new paradigm. Let’s share the best practices, learning tools, and lessons learned so that we can build resilience.

Virtual Spring Symposium

Collaboration | April 27-28, 2021

University EHS professionals collaborate on things all the time with many different stakeholders on many different areas of their work - from internal campus departments, schools within the universities, other universities, high schools, and industry. We do this because we learn early in our EHS careers that collaboration is at the heart of what we do and everyone involved in safety anywhere believes in sharing knowledge so all everyone is safe on the job wherever that is.

Virtual Fall Symposium

Training & Communication | November 16-17, 2020

This Symposia gave attendees a glimpse into innovative EHS training and communication methods. We will consider how to incorporate and encourage effective training and communication methods at our institutions, share best practices, and learn how we can better collaborate with each other, our students, and our researchers.