Risk, Ethics, Safety & Resilience
Risk, Ethics, Safety, and Resilience (RESR) leads functions that ensure a safe, resilient, and supportive campus environment. This includes environmental and occupational health and safety, fire safety, emergency preparedness, business continuity, compliance, and ethics. The team provides comprehensive services that support leadership in managing risks, enhancing safety, ensuring regulatory compliance, and developing university policies.
Emergency Preparedness
Western Washington University’s emergency management program works to strengthen university-wide emergency and disaster resiliency by encouraging prevention and mitigation actions, collaboratively planning, educating about preparedness, and supporting response and recovery efforts.
Environmental Health and Safety
The overarching responsibility of Environmental Health and Safety is to support the efforts of the university community in remaining healthy and safe.
Ethics and Compliance
Western's Ethics and Compliance program promotes a responsible, efficient, and effective risk based approach to managing the myriad of regulations allowing the University community to focus on achieving its University Strategic Plan. Despite the challenges, Western is committed to compliance while upholding it’s value of integrity, ethics, and accountability among its’ workforce and students.
Risk Management
Risk Management acts as a consultant and service-provider to executive, division, college, and unit leadership who have substantive responsibility for managing risk.
University Policy & Public Records
University Policy and Public Records is responsible for the development of university policies and the fulfillment of public records in response to public records requests.
Assistant Vice President (AVP) for Risk, Ethics, Safety, and Resilience
Darin Rasmussen, the Assistant Vice President (AVP) for Risk, Ethics, Safety, and Resilience, oversees various functions to ensure WWU is a safe, resilient, and supportive place to live, learn, and work. Darin joined the university in 2014 as Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police before stepping into the AVP role in April 2022. In addition to his experience at Western, Darrin has over 22 years of experience in public safety, including a distinguished career with the Marysville Police Department.