Safety Instructions
The Safety Instructions accessible from this page have replaced previous Administrative Instructions dealing with Health and Safety and include new instructions covering modern topics. In some places you will find instructions that are supplemental to the University Health, Safety and Wellbeing webpages for work activities conducted within the School of Engineering. These may outline who in the School is responsible, or will state where there are specific departmental arrangements in place.
Safety Instructions will be reviewed on a regular basis and any suggestions for improvements or alterations to take account of changing work practices should be sent to the page contact at the foot of this page.
- Building Safety including new builds and refurbishments, building faults and maintanance, roof access and relocations
- . [For machinery sale or disposal see 'Waste Disposal' below].
- (see also Laboratory and Workshop Safety (below) and that can be used for capturing significant risks from substances in the workplace including process dusts, mists, fumes, vapours etc., in the School of Engineering
- Children at Work Policy
- Cleaning of Laboratory Facilities
- Continuous Running Equipment
- Display Screen Equipment and Office Safety
- including driving of
- . (note that these can be downloaded from the library).
- a) b) Example Fieldwork risk assessment template and example itinerary template
- Fire Procedure (School of Engineering and WMG)
- First Aid
- Gas Safety in Engineering and
- in an Engineering environment
- Health and Safety Training
- - use of, and Non-Ionising Radiation
- (ensure you know what is covered and what is not)
- Laboratories and Workshop Safety
- Laboratory work for student projects in vacations and outside normal working hours and for projects involving working off campus
- (and LOLER)
- Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) for controlling exposure to hazardous substances and process emissions
- Lone Working (click LW policy in given link)
- and Engineering Manual Handling Risk Assessment Form
- Nanotechnology Safety Guidance
- Placements a) b) Guidance for Students going on Placement
- Portable Equipment Taken Off Site
- Postgraduate Demonstrators
- Purchase, Handling, Maintenance and Storage of Articles and Substances
- - including links to specific assessments (COSHH, Display Screen Equipment, Manual Handling Operations, pregnancy/new mother, Biological, fieldwork, etc)
- Robot Safety
- Safety Audits and Inspections
- and Constitution
- Safety Plan
- and
- Waste Disposal including the sale and disposal of machinery and laser systems and the disposal of radioactive materials, batteries, chemicals, IT equipment and other materials generally used across the School.
- Welding Safety Guidance - MMA only but being expanded to include other welding operations