OHSS Training 2011-12

This course is intended for maintenance or gardening staff who use ladders and mobile towers on a fairly regular basis. It is a general safety course looking at types of ladder and their correct use along with mobile towers and other work at height issues. It is designed to encourage Height Awareness.

From fieldwork in far flung places, to lab work at weekends, to securing buildings at night, University staff and students may be working alone. Most of the time, these activities can take place without significant risk provided appropriate precautions are in place. But sometimes working alone can accentuate hazards or even introduce new hazards so the risks of lone working need thorough assessment and suitable control measures.

This training is for all staff who are regularly involved in moving and carrying loads and setting up equipment etc. The course involves theory, practical and video. It requires active participation by all attending. The training also includes a practical demonstration of safe lifting and shows a range of lifting aids that are available.

A large proportion of accidents reported to the Safety Office are slips and trips of some sort. Good housekeeping and maintenance standards can reduce the number of incidents so this session is particularly relevant to Departmental Safety Officers, Facilities Managers and area supervisors.

This course will raise attendees' awareness of fire safety and assist fire safety managers to comply with current fire safety legislation.

Anyone who is or will be a first-time user or supervisor of x-ray equipment or other equipment generating ionising radiation is expected to attend this course before they begin work. Existing users and supervisors of these items of equipment who are new to the University should also attend.

Personal safety issues, assessing risks in the workplace and how you can minimise the likelihood of becoming a victim. For those of you doing customer-facing jobs, your actions and reactions can be vital in determining what happens next.

Are you actively involved in genetic modification risk assessment? This is a practical course designed to help you with this work. As part of the course you will look at the legal background and duties under GM legislation, consider the biological concepts required, and carry out risk assessments for GM projects using the University forms.

This course will give clear instruction of the roles of designated fire wardens and assist fire safety managers to comply with current fire safety legislation.

A safety course for anyone either directly working with chemicals or who is responsible for persons working with chemicals including PIs, Post Grads, Post Docs and technicians.

If you have attended the 2-hour departmental chemical safety training it is not necessary to attend this course as well.

This course is aimed at supervisors of UV equipment and others who are responsible for areas where artificial sources of UV equipment are used. It gives an understanding of the hazards of ultraviolet radiation and practical methods of protection from artificial sources. It may also be appropriate for users of artificial UV sources, although appropriate practical training on specific equipment should be provided within departments.

This short course is designed to provide basic information to consignors, stores personnel, and departmental drivers on the nature of radioactivity, its effects on people and how we protect ourselves from 'radiation'. You do not need any previous knowledge of the nature or effects of radioactivity. We also cover in detail the rules and regulations concerning transport and movement of radioactive substances.

Who should attend? Departmental drivers from departments that consign radioactive materials or waste and stores managers and radiation protection supervisors who are responsible for consigning or transporting radioactive materials between departments or on the public roads.

This course is an essential component of training for new laser users, which should be backed up by practical training in departments.

The course may be suitable for users of other classes of lasers, depending on the risk, but please discuss this with your Laser Safety Officer first.

Falls from ladders and other height access devices continue to cause injuries to people at work in the University. The new Work at Height Regulations (April 2005) have implications for the University because the emphasis has changed to any fall from any height. Anyone who uses ladders or who supervises work with ladders should attend this session.

This course will give clear instruction of the roles of designated fire wardens and assist fire safety managers to comply with current fire safety legislation.

The course provides hands on experience in the correct use of portable fire extinguishers.

This course will raise attendees' awareness of fire safety and assist fire safety managers to comply with current fire safety legislation.

The course provides hands on experience in the correct use of portable fire extinguishers.

This course will provided clear instruction of what is expected of fire safety managers to assist responsible persons to comply with current fire safety legislation.

This course will provided clear instruction of what is expected of fire safety managers to assist responsible persons to comply with current fire safety legislation.

If you are a newly appointed Departmental Safety Officer, you should attend this course within three months of appointment where possible. Space permitting, we also welcome current DSOs and others with a health and safety role.

The topics are also covered in other courses that are open to all comers.

This course will raise attendees' awareness of fire safety and assist fire safety managers to comply with current fire safety legislation.