The UCOP Safety Team will be distributing information about fire prevention, emergency preparedness and ergonomics. Pick up a poster and talk with a Department Safety Coordinator to be entered in a raffle.

Help drive staff engagement by attending a focus group hosted by OP Staff Assembly on Oct. 6.

Giving blood is easy when the American Red Cross Bloodmobile comes to UCOP on Thursday, Oct. 8. Call Jan Kehoe at 987-9692 to make your appointment.

Bring your lunch and come to the next installment of the Lunch & Learn series, featuring Michael Reese, vice chancellor for Business and Administrative Services at UC Merced.

The new online system will allow you to initiate, track and access requests anytime while giving the BRC the capability of monitoring and responding to requests in real time.

UC will increase the minimum wage for employees, including contract workers, on Thursday, Oct. 1, the first stage of a three-year plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2017.

Learn more about the UC Water Security and Sustainability Research Initiative at a Research Grants Program Office’s brown bag on Oct. 5, 12 to 1 p.m., in Kaiser 612

Hosting a systemwide meeting with attendees from the campuses? Planning on paying for their travel expenses? Check out this month’s BRC Blast for the inside scoop on how to process these and other non-UCOP employee travel reimbursements.

In addition to general retirement planning classes, this quarter there are a couple of new offerings: a series for women and a debt management, budgeting and planning workshop.

Join your colleagues on the Franklin fifth-floor patio for lunch and laughter.

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, a good time to remind yourself of some digital security basics. Check out these do's and don'ts to protect your personal information and help the university protect the information it collects.