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If you are experiencing an emergency of any kind, please call Campus Safety at 413-585-5555 (x5555 from a Smith landline), or call or text 911.

Enterprise Risk Management

Smith’s Enterprise Risk Management office focuses on facilitating identification and mitigation of risks that have the potential to impact the mission, strategy and operations of the college. Enterprise Risk Management focuses on institutional risk capabilities and practices for the college with an emphasis on ensuring the interrelationship and cascading effects of risks across the college are managed within the college’s risk appetite. Enterprise Risk Management processes, templates and assessment tools support analysis of risks at the college.

Smith also has a number of risk mitigation approaches, including various insurance programs that are supported through our relationship with The Five College Office of Risk Management. The Five College Office of Risk Management is a shared administrative program that provides insurance and risk management services to Smith College, as well as guidance and policy analysis to the college on insurance and risk concerns.

The office serves the college by:

Please refer to the Five College website for a complete list of risk management resources they offer.

Environmental Health & Safety

Smith’s Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) office leads efforts to ensure safe and healthy work and living environments for students, staff, and faculty. The office’s core responsibilities include delivering a comprehensive safety training program aligned with student, staff and faculty needs, fostering a culture of safety, and building relationships with the campus community and local, state and federal regulatory agencies to ensure our environmental health and safety compliance obligations are met.

The office serves the college by performing inspections, obtaining licenses, maintaining required regulatory documentation, overseeing abatement and remediation activities for health and safety issues on campus, and conducting various assessments to ensure health and safety standards are met.

Additional areas of focus include fire safety awareness and fire drills, fire watch program, and collaborating with Residence Life to bolster the role of fire safety captains within residential houses.

If you have any issues or concerns related to Environmental Health and Safety, please submit a request through Facilities Link.

Emergency Management

Smith’s Department of Emergency Management strives to help the college plan and prepare for major disasters or emergencies that would impact the college’s community, business operations, or academic operations. Emergency preparedness is a collaborative effort that focuses primarily around education, standardization, and consistency. These principles help increase the likelihood of a successful emergency response, and can help mitigate or reduce the impact these emergencies have on the college and its community.

Smith is continually focused on ways to improve its response to any emergency by following national standards and guidelines, such as using principles of Incident Command Systems (ICS), collaborating with college community members, and developing and testing emergency response plans for various scenarios.

Educating and empowering the community is an extremely effective way of enhancing the community’s preparedness, and of enhancing the safety of all of those on campus. Education comes in many forms- basic education, advanced education, and hazard or scenario-specific education are all different ways to help bolster community preparedness and promote a culture of safety.

Emergency Preparedness is collaborative in nature, and being such works closely with many departments on campus, including but not limited to student affairs, campus safety, college relations, facilities, health services, and many other groups on campus. The Department of Emergency Management also works together with colleagues from the Five Colleges, other local institutions of higher education, as well as local, regional, state, and federal community partners; all to help ensure Smith College has the most successful emergency preparedness program that it can be.

Key Services

  • Developing, maintaining, and testing a College Emergency Operations Plan
  • Assessing hazards that may impact the college using an “all-hazards” approach to emergency preparedness
  • Providing safety and emergency preparedness education to the Smith College community
  • Organizing, educating, and testing an Incident Management Team to help provide a consistent and collaborative response to emergencies that may impact the college’s community, business continuity, and/or academic programs

If you have questions regarding emergency management or emergency preparedness, or if you are interested in participating in drills, exercises, or safety education, please reach out to Pietro Hogue, Director of Emergency Management at phogue@smith.edu.

Disclaimer

All information provided on this website or by the Five College Office of Risk Management is intended as risk management information or advice only and should not be taken as legal advice. For more information, please contact us.

 

Faculty Policies & Procedures

Five College Risk Management has compiled the resources below to better service faculty and staff. Please feel free to email the office if you need further assistance.

Contact Enterprise Risk Management Office

413-585-2200

Elizabeth DeForest
Director for Enterprise Risk Management

Pietro Hogue
Director of Emergency Management

Corey Lynch
EHS Manager
413-585-2374

Richard Korzeniowski
EHS Coordinator
413-585-2458

Five Colleges Risk Management Office
c/o Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street
South Hadley, MA 01075-6404

For more information, please visit the Five College Risk Management website.

Ruth Rauluk
Director of Risk Management
413-538-3092

K. Dymek
Insurance & Claims Specialist
413-538-2731

Anna Domings
Risk and Compliance Coordinator
413-538-2344