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You are not alone!

You are not alone!. Conference of School etc Health and Safety Advisers/Managers. Telling you about new health and safety legislation and guidance Telling you what services the corporate Health and Safety Department can offer

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You are not alone!

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  1. Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety

  2. You are not alone! Conference of School etc Health and Safety Advisers/Managers Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety

  3. Telling you about new health and safety legislation and guidance Telling you what services the corporate Health and Safety Department can offer Discussing how the UoE’s health and safety structure can accommodate financially challenging times What we are not doing Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety

  4. 20 people in corporate H&S – split into Units 9 full (or almost full) time H&S Managers/Officers 42 part time School etc. H&S Advisers Plus more local 23 Radiation Protection Supervisors 20 Biological Safety Officers/Advisers Today’s purpose - the UoE H&S network Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety

  5. Regular meetings with the full time H&S Managers Less frequent contact with part time colleagues, other than at audit visits or accident investigations Some contact between full time H&S Managers and part time colleagues Desire to ensure that people don’t feel isolated and don’t re-invent the wheel Communication issues Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety

  6. Blurring of the borderline between “high risk” and “low risk” areas Cross-School and even cross-College collaborations Blurring between scientific disciplines chemists, physicists, engineers and geoscientists all doing biological work The changing University Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety

  7. Direct route to the Health and Safety Department is always available Often that route is the first choice option – need to contact the relevant specialist More inter-communication between colleagues at School etc level can only help Guard against a two tier system at School etc level and avoid isolation Importance of communication Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety

  8. Nigel Paul – Director of Corporate Services: championing health & safety in the University Lesley Yellowlees – former HoS at Chemistry: the HoS’s role in health & safety management Ann Diment – H&S Manager at Biomedical Sciences role of a full time local health & safety manager/adviser Debbie Moodie and Ken Vogel – PPLS role of a part timelocal health & safety adviser coffee break This morning’s programme Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety

  9. Joe Brannigan and Caroline Eaton – Estates and Buildings role of health & safety advisers in a Support Service Katie Dunlop – HM Inspector, HSE: the Enforcing Authority’s expectations of us Angi Lamb and Mike McKeen – Joint Trade Unions the role of the Trade Unions in health & safety management within UoE Lunch/stands This morning’s programme Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety

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