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Department of Occupational Health and Safety
Department of Occupational Health and Safety
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- Academic Staff in Laboratory Departments - their responsibilities
- Access: including
- lighting
- Condition of floors and traffic routes
- Falls or falling objects
- Roof work
- Windows and transparent or translucent doors, gates and walls
- Organization etc of traffic routes
- Doors and gates
- Accidents
- Accident Investigation
- AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
- Alcohol
- Animals
- Asbestos
- Asthma
- Auditing - of health and safety performance
- Authorisation to Work
- Biological Risks
- Biological Exposure Limits
- Bomb Threat
- Bottled Gas
- Breathing apparatus
- Building Work
- Carcinogenic substances
- Carrying
- Children
- Cleaning safety procedures
- Committees - Occupational Health and Safety Committee
- Committees - Health and Safety Standing Committee
- Consultation with Employees
- Contractors
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
- Council (Controlling Body)
- Cyanide
- Dangerous conduct
- Dangerous occurrences
- Dangerous substances
- Deans - responsibilities of
- Dermatitis
- Disabled Personsincluding:
- Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs)
- Disease - list of reportable diseases
- Disease Report Form
- Display Screen Equipment (VDU)
- Dogs
- Domestic Assistants
- Doors - Fire
- Drivers Screening Procedure Form
- Drugs
- Drug Precursor Chemicals
- Ear protection
- Electrical Safetyincluding links to:
- Guidance Notes for Electrical Safety Advisers (ESAs)
- Operating procedures relating to the use of electrical equipment and installations
- Application For Work on or Near Live Electrical Conductors
- Permit to Work (PDF)
- Electrically Competent persons
- ECP Training Handbook
- HSE Guidance on Electrical Safety at Work
- Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
- Electrical plant equipment - fixed
- Electrical plant equipment - portable
- Electrical Safety Advisor
- Emergency procedures
- Equal Opportunities
- Evacuation
- Eye Examinations for VDU users
- Extinguisher - fire
- Eye protection
- (VDU registered workers)
- Fieldwork
- Fire Management : Including
- Functions and Duties of Fire Stewards in Halls of Residence
- Fires in Residences - Advice for Residents
- Fire Procedures and Associated Training
- Senior and Deputy Fire Stewards - list of
- First Aid : including links to:
- List of First Aiders
- Designated First Aider
- Designated Occupational First Aider
- Designated First Aider CFM
- First Aid Treatment Record
- First Aid Supplies order form
- Foot protection
- Fume Cupboards
- Moving Furniture - in Pool rooms
- Gas appliances
- Gas cylinders/storage
- Gas leaks
- Genetic Modification
- Gritting
- University Health and Safety Adviser and Head of DOSH - Responsibilities of
- Heads of School or Departments - health and safety responsibilities
- Head protection
- Health and Wellbeing
- Health and Safety Management
- Health and Safety Control
- Health and Safety Policy
- Health and Safety Standing Committee
- Holistic Therapies
- Human Volunteers
- Inspections - Departmental
- Inspections by OHSC
- Joint Workplace Safety Committees
- JWSC Minutes & Action Plans
- Laboratory visits by overseas visitors
- Lasers
- Lead
- Legionella
- Licensing
- Lifting
- Lone working
- Maintenance activities including:
- Permit to work
- Gritting and Snow Clearance
- Monitoring Health and Safety
- Manual Handling - Policy
- Manual Handling - Moving Furniture in Pool Rooms
- Medical surveillance
- Needlestick Injuries
- Noise
- Occupational health
- Occupational Health and Safety Committee
- Occupational Health and Safety Committee
- Occupational Health Policy and Procedures
- Office safety
- Overnight hazards
- Passive smoking
- Permit to Work
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Regulations 1992
- Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs)
- Pregnant Workers
- Pressure systems
- Professional Practice Placements
- Protective equipment
- Radiation Protection Supervisor
- Radiation safety including :
- Radioactive Waste
- Radiation, Ionising
- Radiation, non-ionising
- Radiation workers registration
- Radiation monitoring
- Recall Notices and Safety Flashes
- Repetitive Strain Injury (WRULD)
- Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences (RIDDOR)
- Respiratory sensitizers - occupational surveillance
- Respiratory Protective Equipment
- Risk Management and Assessment
- Secretary and Registrar - Responsibilities of
- Students - Responsibilities for in laboratories
- Safety Committees - Workplace Safety Committees
- Safety Committees - Joint Workplace Safety Committees
- Safety Committee - Occupational Health and Safety Committee
- Safety Inspection Schedule
- Safety shoes
- Safety signs
- Safety spectacles
- Sharps
- Shift workers
- Sick building syndrome
- Smoking
- Snow and ice clearing
- Stress Management Policy
- Temperature (Thermal comfort)
- Testing - electrical
- Traffic Risk Management Policy
- University Health and Safety Adviser and Head of DOSH - Responsibilities of
- - Responsibilities of
- University Radiation Protection Adviser - Responsibilities of
- University Laser Safety Adviser- Responsibilities of
- Vice-Chancellor - Responsibilities of
- Violence
- Visual Display Units including:
- How to keep comfortable at your computer
- Procedure for obtaining eyesight tests
- VDU Workstation assessment and training links
- Window cleaning
- Work Related Upper Limb Disorder (WRULD)
- Working alone
- Working at Home
- Work Experience (Professional Practice Placements)
- Workplace Safety Adviser - role
- Workplace Safety Advisers - list
- Workplace Safety Committees
