Proactively advance PRI's safety culture, safety policies, and safety procedures by addressing the wide-ranging current and potential needs of PRI constituents (scientists, administrators, staff, and students) and their scientific surveys including field and laboratory research safety, instructional field and laboratory safety, occupational safety, public safety, emergency planning, and safety compliance. The Prairie Research Institute (PRI), a research and service institute of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign centrally located between Chicago, St. Louis, and Indianapolis, houses five large scientific surveys covering a wide range of expertise including biology, water resources, climate, geology, sustainable technology, and archaeology.