Transcript Combined Presentation for the IRR & IRMER aspects of DEXA

Informatics Forum, 22nd February 2011
Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety
Conference of School etc
Health and Safety
Advisers/Managers
You are not alone!
Informatics Forum, 22nd February 2011
Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety
What we are not doing
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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
Informatics Forum, 22nd February 2011
Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety
Today’s purpose - the UoE H&S network
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20 people in corporate H&S – split into Units
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9 full (or almost full) time H&S Managers/Officers
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42 part time School etc. H&S Advisers
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Plus more local
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23 Radiation Protection Supervisors
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20 Biological Safety Officers/Advisers
Informatics Forum, 22nd February 2011
Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety
Communication issues
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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
Informatics Forum, 22nd February 2011
Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety
The changing University
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Blurring of the borderline between “high risk”
and “low risk” areas
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Cross-School and even cross-College collaborations
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Blurring between scientific disciplines
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chemists, physicists, engineers and geoscientists all doing
biological work
Informatics Forum, 22nd February 2011
Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety
Importance of communication
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Direct route to the Health and Safety Department
is always available
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Often that route is the first choice option – need
to contact the relevant specialist
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More inter-communication between colleagues at
School etc level can only help
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Guard against a two tier system at School etc level
and avoid isolation
Informatics Forum, 22nd February 2011
Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety
This morning’s programme
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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 time local health & safety adviser
coffee break
Informatics Forum, 22nd February 2011
Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety
This morning’s programme
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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
Informatics Forum, 22nd February 2011
Alastair Reid, Director of Health and Safety