Contact Safety

EHS Main Office 713-500-8100 (answered M-F, 8:00AM-5:00PM CST)
EHS Hotline 713-500-5832  (after hours, weekends, holiday for the on-call safety specialist)
For Emergencies, Dial UT Police Dispatch 713-792-2890 or 911

Submit a Safety Concern

Safety, Health, Environment & Risk Management’s (SHERM) mission is to work in conjunction with the UTHealth community to ensure that education, research, and health care service activities take place in conditions that are optimally safe and healthy for all students, faculty, staff, visitors, surrounding community and the general public.

Put simply, we exist to help people go home as healthy and safe as they arrived.

Our main office is located at the Operations Center Building (OCB 1.330) and we can be reached at 713-500-8100 or Fax 713-500-8111.

Robert Emery, DrPH, CHP, CIH, CSP, CBSP, CHMM, CPP, ARM Vice President of Safety, Health, Environment & Risk Management 713-500-8100 [email protected]

Scott Patlovich, DrPH, CIH, CSP CBSP, CHMM, CPH Assistant Vice President of Environmental Health & Safety 713-500-8100 [email protected]

Kristin King, Ph.D., CPH, CBSP, CHSP, CIC Biological Safety Manager 713-500-8163 [email protected]

William Bryan, Ph.D. Chemical Safety Manager 713-500-5832 [email protected]

Snehal Rana Occupational Safety & Fire Prevention Manager 713-500-8100 [email protected]

Janet Gutierrez, DrPH, CHP, RRPT Radiation Safety Manager 713-500-5840 [email protected]

Alan Lucas, MS, CHMM Environmental Protection Manager 713-500-8100 [email protected]

Bryan Evans, MBA, ARM, MAC Risk Management & Insurance 713-500-8100 [email protected]

Cynthia Crespo-Bonaparte, MS, MIE, CSSGB Hospital and Clinical Safety Program Manager 713-741-3894 [email protected]