Transcript Growing Together: Ask other Tech staff for advice Julie Gray School of Biological Sciences University of Wollongong [email protected] Questions arise…… [email protected] Questions arise……  Has someone else figured out how.

Growing Together: Ask other
Tech staff for advice
Julie Gray
School of Biological Sciences
University of Wollongong
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Questions arise……
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Questions arise……
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Has someone else figured out how to do
this?
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Questions arise……
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Has someone else figured out how to do
this?
Can it be done cheaper?
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Questions arise……
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Has someone else figured out how to do
this?
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Can it be done cheaper?
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Could we find a more popular solution?
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How do we find out?
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How do we find out?
We ASK!
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….and who do we ask?
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….and who do we ask?
We ask the tech staff
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So that is what I did….
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‘development leave’
Assisted greatly with travel and
accommodation costs
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Who to talk to?
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Who to talk to?
My time and UOW’s money
vs
The many, varied Campuses in Aus.
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In Canberra
ANU
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In Canberra
ANU
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John Curtain School of Medical Research
School of Botany and Zoology
OHS unit
School of Biological and Molecular
Biosciences
Research School of Biological Sciences
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In Canberra (cont)
Uni of Canberra
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In Canberra (cont)
Uni of Canberra
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School of Health Sciences
Corporate Services
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In Adelaide
Flinders Uni
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In Adelaide
Flinders Uni
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School of Biology
Central Admin
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In Adelaide (cont)
Uni of Adelaide
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In Adelaide (cont)
Uni of Adelaide
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School of Earth and Environmental
Sciences
School of Molecular and Biomolecular
Sciences
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In Adelaide (cont)
Uni of South Australia
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In Adelaide (cont)
Uni of South Australia
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School of Pharmaceutical, Molecular and
Biomedical Sciences
School of Health Sciences
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In Adelaide (cont)
TechNet SA Forum 2003
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What was I trying to learn?
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Access control to labs
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Access control to labs
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There is no simple effective solution.
Individual access controls on each door is
the best that is being done.
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OHS Compliance
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OHS Compliance
Management support
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Resourcing
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Persuasion
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Regulatory Body Compliance
(OGTR, AQIS, EPA)
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Regulatory Body Compliance
(OGTR, AQIS, EPA)
Currently trying to hit a moving target
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-80 freezer storage
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-80 freezer storage
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Local and remote alarms on battery
backup
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CO2 backup to hold temp down
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Alternate power supply – diesel generator
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Summary
The exercise was beneficial to me and to
UOW at a variety of levels.
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Summary (cont)
My School now has a comprehensive plan to
protect the contents of the -80 freezers –
(we just have to fund it)
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Summary (cont)
My Faculty is in the position to redesign its
liquid nitrogen storage, to a safe and
reliable automated system (funding issues
again)
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Summary (cont)
The OHS unit is pursuing electronic
submission of incident reports – removes
time lag and makes process ‘easy’
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Summary (cont)
The University is pursuing improved
contractor compliance with local systems
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Summary (cont)
I was both challenged and inspired by the
things I discovered.
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Futures
Improved use of general staff within units
 Admin vs teaching vs research
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Career paths
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Staff structures
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Futures (cont)
Components of working OHS management
systems.
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Futures (cont)
Management of animal holding facilities and
animal research.
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Ask someone else how they
solved it.
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