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Safety Services is comprised of three units: Environmental Health and Safety, Fire Department, and University Police.

• Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) provides health, safety and environmental protection programs in an effort to reduce or eliminate workplace injuries, workplace illnesses, work-related injury and illness, property loss, and unintended environmental damage and degradation.
• The Fire Department is an emergency service unit that protects life and property within the University campus and surrounding community through direct action and coordination of Fire Services resources.
• The University Police department provides basic safety patrol and security related services to the University community.

Internal Control is comprised of four units: Financial Affairs, Internal Audit, Office of Planning and Analysis, and Staff Human Resources.

• Financial Affairs consists of central financial services that support all aspects of the campus' administrative endeavors. These units include the FAST/AP Office (Accounts Payable and Direct Pay reimbursements); Accounting Services, which consists of Financial Accounting and Reporting (FAR), Contract and Grant Accounting (EMF), and Payroll; Student Business Services; the Campus Controller's Office; and Enterprise Financial Systems, which consists of Financial Information System (FIS) and Enterprise Time and Attendance (ETA).
• Internal Audit assists managers in their control function to assure the protection and effective utilization of university assets. Activities include: accurate identification of risk in achievement of business objectives; cost-effective design and administration of controls to mitigate risk; establishment of reliable accounting and information systems; and the establishment of systems to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• The Office of Planning and Analysis (OPA) is responsible for divisional resource management including: financial planning; budget development; human resources coordination; divisional information technology planning; performance measurement; and management training and development.
• Staff Human Resources units help campus units recruit, hire, and retain the best qualified and most diverse workforce possible for the Santa Cruz campus.

Physical Environment is comprised of three units: Physical Plant, Physical Planning and Construction, and the newly-established Real Estate Office (REO).

• Physical Plant - consisting of Building and Utility Services, Grounds and Custodial Services processes approximately 21,000 work orders a year, amounting to some $13 million worth of projects large and small.
• Physical Planning and Construction (PPC) - including the Community Planning and Land Development Office and the Environmental Assessment Group is responsible for planning, design, construction and project administration services based on campus academic plans.
• The Real Estate Office (REO) oversees the management of real property and other UCSC assets in coordination with all campus units that engage in real property transactions. REO activities include development and property management for the Monterey Bay Education and Technology Center (MBEST), the Marine Science Campus (MSC), and the Silicon Valley Center (SVC).

Business Services is comprised of two units: University Business Services and Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS).

• University Business Services (UBS) consists of a number of sub-units that provide procurement, business contracts development, real estate, equipment administration, receiving, moving, workers' compensation, risk management, printing, graphic design, temporary support staffing, and mail services to the campus community.
• The mission of Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) is to support the academic, research, and public service efforts of the UCSC campus by providing transportation, circulation and parking services and associated infrastructure in a convenient, reliable, safe, efficient, cost-effective, customer-responsive and environmentally-responsible manner.