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• DOHS A - Z

• 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
• Home Workers
• 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
• 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