Safety Awareness in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

In wildlife and fisheries sciences, undergraduate and graduate students, managers, staff and faculty, find themselves working in environments with inherent dangers. Often, we approach our jobs accepting a certain degree of risk. Understanding risk and steps to reduce harm for those around us and ourselves is part of being a responsible professional.

Possessing knowledge and implementing training are first steps to avoid potentially dangerous situations. Accidents happen fast and knowing what to do in an emergency can save the lives of your colleagues, and yourself.

In an effort to increase safety awareness, we offer the following web-sites as quick references to better understand occupational hazards and responses to emergency situations. You may know of other helpful safety web-sites that could add new information to the list of safety links. If so, please forward them to Dr. Jim Cathey (jccathey@tamu.edu).

James C. Cathey, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas Cooperative Extension, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843

R. Douglas Slack, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843

Stephen E. Davis, III, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843

Tariq Ayyub, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 

• Aquatic Safety         • Terrestrial Safety    • Laboratory Safety