EH&S shares safety knowledge, experience, and services with people throughout Iowa. 

One of the interesting ways EH&S staff shared their expertise is through participation in the State of Iowa Radiological Emergency Program. The program is administered by Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management. In 2015, EH&S provided 16 staff members to serve as radiological field team members, field team coordinators, controllers, and trainers for nine non-federally evaluated radiological drills and one federally-evaluated exercise at three nuclear power plants - Duane Arnold Energy Center, Palo, IA; Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station, Blair, NE; Quad Cities Nuclear Station, Cordova, IL.

EH&S also partners with the State Hygienic Laboratory in Coralville, IA and Ankeny, IA  to assist in the training of program participants and management of the program policies, protocols, and procedures. EH&S staff provided 12 training sessions covering the breadth of the program as well as managing a complete review and revision of approximately 30 programmatic standard operating procedures.

Working through ISU College of Engineering Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS), National Institutes of Sciences and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NIST/MEP) Program as well as ISU Research Park, EH&S provided specialized safety services to 34 private businesses and manufacturers around the state. These safety services included:

• Facility ventilation evaluations
• Fume hood certifications
• Hazardous materials shipping/disposal consultation
• Online and classroom safety training
• Radiological instrument calibrations
• Radiological safety surveys
• Safety audits
  • Chemical, Facility, Laboratory, and Radiological
• Safety consultation