Yale Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) welcomes Tylisa Cosby and Shelby Wuchek to its team. The pair joins EHS as members of the department’s Business Operations and will play critical roles in the oversight of their respective programs.
Tylisa Cosby comes to EHS as its new training and Clean Air Device Program coordinator after spending the last six years as a clinical service facilitator at Yale New Haven Hospital. She previously worked for five years as a customer service representative at Yale New Haven Hospital. Cosby earned her associate degree in general studies from Gateway Community College in 2008 and her bachelor’s degree in healthcare management from Albertus Magnus College in 2018.
In her new role, Cosby will support, coordinate, and maintain documentation for all university trainings that fall under the responsibility of EHS. This includes coordinating and scheduling trainings for faculty, staff, and other audiences and handling audio visual requirements, training materials, and sign-in sheets. She will also maintain training records and training requirement information in Yale’s Training Management System (TMS) and the EHS Integrator database.
Cosby will serve as the primary contact for day-to-day operations of the Clean Air Device (CAD) Program where she will schedule certifications, decontaminations, and repairs for the more than 2,400 devices on campus. She will coordinate with laboratories and provide daily communication to laboratory staff, provide constant communication to Yale Animal Resource Center (YARC) staff on services to CADs, work with the CAD technicians to resolve issues in a timely manner, and assist with the annual CAD chargeback program.
Shelby Wuchek joins EHS as its research support coordinator where she will provide comprehensive, high-level business and program support to EHS for radiation safety, business operations, and other programs. Wuchek will serve as program coordinator for radioactive material use authorization, radioactive materials procurement, and radiation exposure monitoring programs. She will review and approve Workday/SciQuest restricted materials purchase orders (radioactive) for university faculty and researchers and will work closely with vendors, EHS staff, lab staff, and Transport, Receiving & Storage staff to facilitate the timely and compliant receipt of research materials. She will also maintain radioisotope purchasing, authorization, principal profile, assistants, and other information in the EHS Integrator database and manage information in the dosimetry vendors database.
Wuchek now has responsibility for supporting the Controlled Substance Program at Yale, which is regulated by the State of Connecticut and United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). She will coordinate waste destruction preparation with laboratory staff and the research safety supervisor, assist all principal investigators in completing their initial application process for approval of the State and DEA licensing, maintain and track all annual State of Connecticut registrations and DEA licenses including license updates, address changes, and lab relocations.
She will also receive and dispatch routine and non-routine inquiries on complex and sensitive matters such as incidents, injuries, hazardous material spills, hazardous waste, restricted materials purchasing, laboratory equipment decommissioning, and ergonomics and will dispatch the EHS emergency response team and relay instructions and information requiring knowledge of department policies, practices, procedures, and reporting relationships.
Wuchek earned her bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in human resource management from Bryant University in 2021.