Health and Safety

It is the policy of the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology:

• To support the University in achieving its health and safety policy and objectives.
• To take all necessary steps to ensure the health and safety of all staff, students and visitors to the Faculty.
• To develop a health and safety culture through consultation, information and appropriate training.
• To define health and safety roles and responsibilities and ensure that the requirements for health and safety are actively carried out.
• To comply with health and safety regulations as they apply to the Faculty.
• To develop and document health and safety procedures.
• To monitor and review health and safety arrangements in the Faculty and aim for continuous improvement.
• To provide health and safety information for staff and students.
• To provide appropriate health and safety training.
• To carry out risk assessments on foreseeable hazards.
• To maintain appropriate health and safety records.
• To review this policy and organisation document and amend as necessary.
• To implement health and safety arrangements and monitor their effectiveness through inspections and audits.

The Dean of Faculty is ultimately responsible for the administration and enforcement of all Faculty Health and Safety matters and for ensuring compliance with the University's Health and Safety Policy, advised as necessary by the Faculty Health and Safety advisor or by any other person, staff or students, who have knowledge of any potential or actual hazards.

Individual responsibilities are outlined in the Faculty Health & Safety Policy (see below), but in general terms all staff have a responsibility for their own safety and that of others around them.  The safety of all student work is the responsibility of the academic supervisor, and they have a duty to ensure that risk assessments are completed and approved by them as supervisors, whenever necessary.

For further information and/or guidance please contact either your line manager (for staff), your supervisor (for students) or the nominated Faculty Health & Safety advisor:
Steve Marsh, Faculty Technical Manager, s.marsh@staffs.ac.uk
Please note that the advisory role is not responsible for managing health and safety across the Faculty – the responsibilities for health & safety are as outlined within the policy.

Electronic copies of Faculty assessments (including Risk, CoSHH, Working at Height and Manual Handling) can be viewed and downloaded using the online assessment system.  Blanks templates for any new assessments are available within the Faculty documentation area below.

The Faculty has an online risk assessment system for students to use.

To access this you must follow the link and at the prompt type in student\ followed by your username and your password eg student\gh002371 *******  then follow the instructions to complete your Safety Assessment

All Faculty H&S information is available to view online.  Copies of blank assessment forms for you to download and use are also available here.  Once completed (and approved by academic supervisors in the case of student assessments), all forms should be returned to the Faculty health & safety administrator, Claire Booth, in room C215 for inclusion on the online assessments system.

The Faculty has a Health & Safety Working Group who meet at least three times a year to discuss health & safety matters.  The membership of this group is currently as follows:
Steve Marsh (Chair), Mike Goodwin, Nigel Price, Steve Perry, Alasdair Macdonald, Mark Hanstock, Chris Gould, Haydn Richardson, Justin Champion, Robert Round, Chris Howard, Peter Hughes, Richard Allies, Wenyan Wu, Claire Booth (Secretary)