An employee must notify his/her manager as soon as s/he receives a jury summons.
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All employees are eligible. Excluded are resource employees, per diem employees, postdoctoral scholars and those claiming student status, including teaching and research assistants.
California law designates USC employees with certain positions as “mandated reporters” (defined below and in Appendix A).
To establish procedures for the management and control of equipment owned by or in the possession and custody of USC. This includes the acquisition, identification, recording, use, care,
maintenance, disposition, and reporting of U.S. government and contractor-owned equipment
held by the university. These procedures are established to comply with federal regulations with respect to government equipment for which the university is responsible and accountable.
All employees are expected to adhere to the highest ethical standards in their professional and business practices. In order to meet these obligations, all faculty and staff should avoid conflicts of interest that may exist between outside activities and obligations to the university.
USC will consider requested restrictions. However, except in the limited circumstances described below, USC has no obligation to agree to any such request, nor is it required to cite a reason for refusing to do so.
This policy describes the process for responding to a patient’s request for an accounting of disclosures of his or her Protected Health Information.
Except as set forth below, the University of Southern California (USC) recognizes the right of a patient to request an amendment to his or her Protected Health Information or a record about a patient maintained by USC in a “Designated Record Set.”
The university is committed to compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, a standard adopted internationally by the major credit card brands (e.g., Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express) to protect credit card data, regardless of where that data is processed or stored (“PCI Standard”).
USC recognizes the importance of assisting postdoctoral scholars as they develop into independent investigators.
USC is committed to ensuring that human anatomical materials used for academic purposes meet all applicable regulatory and safety requirements.
The purpose of this policy is to control the commitment of university funds, including purchasing and contracting activities.
When the purchase of goods and services is authorized by a purchase order, the supplier must provide an invoice for payment.
It is USC’s policy to provide a process for individuals to make complaints regarding USC’s compliance with the Privacy Rule.
It is USC’s policy to accommodate a reasonable request by a patient to receive communications of Protected Health Information from USC by alternative means or at alternative locations, provided the procedures for requesting such accommodations as set forth below, are followed.
Keck Medicine of University of Southern California (Keck) recognizes that federal and California law require that Protected Health Information receive the highest level of access control and security protection in order to safeguard the confidentiality and protect the patients’ right to privacy of such information consistent with USC’s privacy policies.
Federal and state regulations govern the protection of human subjects in research. While these regulations provide for some patient confidentiality protections, the HIPAA Privacy Rule adds additional privacy protections for human subjects and establishes the conditions under which protected health information (“PHI”) may be used or disclosed
by the University of Southern California (USC) for research purposes.
USC recognizes that federal and California law require that certain categories of patient’s Protected Health Information receive additional privacy protections.
A patient’s “Personal Representative” is the person who has the authority, under California law, to make health care decisions on behalf of the patient. Although there are exceptions, in general a person who has the capacity to make his or her
own health care decisions does not have a Personal Representative.
USC supports the health and safety of all students. This policy and procedure has been developed to assist in locating students who reside in on-campus and university-owned housing and who have been determined by USC to be missing.
USC is committed to excellence in environmental health and safety stewardship on our campuses and in the larger USC community. This policy outlines safety responsibilities and requirements placed on all USC personnel (faculty, staff, students, contractors, and volunteers)—to support injury and illness prevention, maintain a safe and healthful workplace, and ensure individual and institutional compliance with relevant environmental health and safety regulations.
The university’s goal is to enhance the safety of all USC campuses, facilities, activities, and events so that students, faculty, staff, patients and visitors can work, learn and receive health care in an environment free from violence and threats.
These guidelines have been developed for the purpose of establishing the university’s expectations regarding the management of weekday football games.
The purpose of this policy is to promote the highest ethical standards in situations where conflicts of interest may occur in the conduct of research.
The university reserves the right to restrict or prohibit access to university property and to prohibit certain activities on campus.
USC encourages the creation of repositories (sometimes called biorepositories, registries, banks, or libraries) that provide access, for use in future research, to data and human biospecimens.
USC requires faculty, staff, students, volunteers and others affiliated with the university to report suspicion of wrongdoing promptly to the proper authorities for investigation.
On occasion the university, the Alumni Association, or the dean of an academic unit wishes to acknowledge the extraordinary service or merit of an individual who has neither an earned degree from USC nor qualifies for an honorary degree.
The Internal Revenue Service requires the university to properly classify independent contractors. This policy and the accompanying independent contractor website (see below for link) identify the steps, documents and processes necessary to ensure proper classification of and subsequent payment to independent contractors.
In order to adhere to the highest standards of integrity, the university encourages employees to submit complaints regarding accounting, internal accounting controls, or auditing matters or concerns (“Accounting Matters”).
The university operates as a single employer and has the right and responsibility to share among university departments accurate employment information concerning the job history and performance of current or former staff employees.
The process of employing foreign nationals (as faculty, staff, or employees claiming student status) involves federal rules and regulations that, if not carefully followed, can result in severe penalties to both employee and employer.