What do you need to know about
health and safety?
Responsibilities - Emergency Evacuation - Injuries - Reporting Accidents or Risks
Your Safety and Security
The University has an approved Safety Policy.
You can obtain a copy of this from The University Safety Officer, Personnel,
Dawson Building.
Telephone 0121 331 5360
or from your Faculty Office.
The University is responsible for providing a healthy and safe working environment for learning and working.
You are responsible for taking reasonable care for your own health and safety, and that of others.
You should be aware of your responsibility to observe safety requirements whether or not you work in a particularly hazardous environment.
You should not intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health, safety and welfare.
Emergency
Evaculation of University Buildings
Each academic department, administrative or other service unit should
display official fire instruction notices adjacent to each fire-fighting
appliance in their area. These notices will also be prominently displayed
in corridors and stairways.
You should familiarise yourself with the routes of escape from the building in which you work, and teaching staff will advise you of fire regulations, routes of escape and assembly points as part of the induction course for new students.
In an Emergency
• A bell or siren will sound continuously.
• When you hear the emergency warning you should evacuate the building
in an orderly manner.
• No one is exempt from evacuation.
• Do not use lifts or paternosters.
• You must not re-enter the building until told to do so. The silence
of the alarm is not the signal for re-entry.
If you are injured you should go to a nominated first aider or to one of the campus nurses in the medical rooms.
Accidents
A university accident report form must be completed to record details of the incident, however trivial it may appear and whether or not anyone is injured.
If you have an accident, or are involved in an incident, it is your responsibility to ensure that a form is completed. In the case of a severe injury, the form should be completed by your course director.
Forms are available in all departments.
If you see anything, which you consider to be dangerous, you should report this to a member of staff.
You are responsible for the safety/security
of your personal property. All personal property (including motor vehicles)
is brought onto University property entirely at owner’s risk. The
University does not accept responsibility for any loss or damage to property
howsoever caused.
Any thefts of, or damage to, personal property should
be reported immediately to the University Security Manager, telephone
0121 331 7696