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ISSUE 11 JULY 2013 Welcome to the July 2013 edition of the Health & Safety newsletter. David Wright Health and Safety Manager
Health & Safety Meetings Please email
hsservicedesk@ port.ac.uk with the 2013/2014 dates of your Faculty or Department or Building Health & Safety Committee meetings. This will enable us to support you and to identify any gaps where these meetings should be taking place.
Heads Newsletter Tony Crabtree, our Guest Editor is producing a newsletter for Heads of Departments. This will be circulated in the near future.
Health and Safety Newsletter Contacts: David Wright x 3440 Lynda Martin x 5698
Email: hsservicedesk@ port.ac.uk Health and Safety Office St Andrew’s Court St Michael’s Road Portsmouth PO1 2PR
Health and Safety Newsletter The latest news from the University of Portsmouth Health and Safety Office
NEBOSH Courses Update We are running the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management course this summer. This will run as a 6 day course over 2 weeks (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) on w/c 5 and 12 August 2013 with the exams on 6 September 2013. The latest you can register for this course is mid-day on Friday 26 July 2013. The NEBOSH Management of Health and Well-being at Work Certificate This course ran from January to March 2013. The results were 3 distinctions, 2 credits, 3 passes and 3 referrals. We plan to run this course again January to March 2014. The NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety Course This course ran from January to April 2013. The results were 5 distinctions, 4 credits, 1 pass and 5 referrals. We plan to run this course again March to June 2014. The NEBOSH Fire Certificate Course ran from May to June 2013, and was attended by 12 delegates. Results are expected in August 2013. The Fire Safety Policy training matrix recommends that Fire Liaison Officers, Managers (who have fire safety responsibility), Technicians and Health & Safety Co-ordinators should complete this training. We aim to run this course again in Summer 2014. The NEBOSH National Construction Certificate
We are reviewing whether to run this course from August to December 2014. Please let us know if you are interested. Please email
[email protected] if you are interested in any of these courses. Further information can be found on the Health and Safety web pages.
6TH ANNUAL HEALTH & SAFETY CO-ORDINATORS CONFERENCE On Thursday 11 July 2013, the 6th Annual Health and Safety Conference was held on the 4th floor of St Andrew's Court. The conference was a great success being attended by over 75 delegates. We would like to thank Professor Paul Hayes, for opening the conference and presenting our successful NEBOSH candidates with their scrolls; John Mitchell, Head of Health and Safety at Blake Lapthorn, for his legal update presentation; Jeremy Philpot, Estates Operations Director, for his Estates update presentation. Part of the conference was a mini trade fair during lunch time, which was attended by Shaw City, Arco, Right Management, Hygiene Handle, Hampshire Fire and Rescue, Hampshire Police, the Energy and Environmental Team and Equality and Diversity. We would like to extend our particular thanks to Shaw City who very kind contributed toward the cost of lunch; Arco who were extremely generous with their goodies and finally to Specsavers who as well as providing merchandise kindly donated a voucher as well. The voucher was awarded to Christina Scott, together with the “Health & Safety University Challenge Shield” for winning the quiz. Examples of feedback received to date include, “Thought it
was very well organised and put together, good selection of trade stalls.” “Thank you for a well organised conference and I look forward to next years!” “I think the legal update would be useful for heads of departments.” We will be sending reminders chasing outstanding feedback. Please see the website for more information.
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Working in the heat and sun The Health & Safety Office has published guidance from Barbour and Mike Tipton, courtesy of BBC News. If you have any queries please contact either the Health & Safety Office, Occupational Health or Estates depending on the nature of your enquiry.
Product Recall Please contact the Health & Safety office if you have any Arco Essentials Goggles 341800 currently in use. Please stop using them and we will organize a suitable replacement. Arco quality testing has highlighted performance issues relating to the side impact protection these goggles provide.
BARBOUR Barbour is the leading IOSH, BIFM and USHA approved UK provider of health, safety and environmental information, and have been helping organisations stay safe and compliant for over 50 years. The Estates Department have renewed the University’s subscription to this service and offered a limited number of licences to Health & Safety Coordinators. Please contact hsservicedesk @port.ac.uk to register.
Health & Safety Team News Welcome to the following new Health & Safety Co-ordinators: Liz Worman - The Innovation Space, Halpern House Andrea Coupe- the Hub and the ground floor of Dennis Sciama Building Martin Colvill - Anglesea Building, following the retirement of John Nash Andy Rain - Estates / Port Royal Street assisting Pete Aldam who has taken on extra responsibilities. Natalie Smith and Christina Coombs-Williams - Portland Building and Buckingham Building, following Donna Marshall’s new role in Academic Registry. Mihaela Spirova - Students Union, following Joanne Hodgson leaving the University Goodbye and good luck to Mark White who leaves the University at the end of the month to take up a post with the University of Manchester Dalton Nuclear Institute in the Lake District. Mark’s role will be replaced with a Health & Safety Compliance Manager complemented by a Compliance Engineer.
FIRE SAFETY Please visit the fire safety pages of our website as this information has updated. We would particularly like to remind you that as per the Fire Safety Policy and Procedures, Fire Drills should be organised twice a year for each building. We have slightly amended the Fire Evacuation Record to request that copies are sent to Estates and the Health & Safety Office and also added a line where the Maximo number for any remedial work can be recorded. As previously, a copy of this completed form should also be retained in the Building Fire Log Book. Please contact the Health & Safety Office if you have any queries or require any clarification. We have also recently published new Building Evacuation Notices. Now we have produced the notices we will be able to pursue our aim to have these displayed on all screens in teaching spaces.
BRITSAFE PLATFORM—DSE ON FIRE ONLINE TRAINING A new platform for the University’s online DSE (Display Screen Equipment) and fire safety training has been launched. This is as a result of Complywise (our original supplier) being taken over by Britsafe. The old site has been taken down, so you may need to update links if you referred to this in communications previously. To access the new platform, please visit: https://portac.britsafelearning.com/login/ index.php For further information regarding the DSE online training please visit: http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/services/humanresources/healthandsafety/dse/dseonli netraining/ For further information regarding the Fire online training please visit: http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/services/humanresources/healthandsafety/atoz/firesaf ety/onlinefiretraining/
WELL-BEING UPDATE The Well-Being and Engagement Steering Group continues to meet. The Well-Being webpages are now live and it is hoped to publish a monthly update via Staff Essentials News.
NEWS FROM THE GREEN TEAM ISO 14001 audits for September “Our third set of ISO 14001 environmental audits will take place in September, when external auditors visit University buildings (scheduled at random) to ensure we meet our environmental responsibilities. ISO 14001 is an international standard for environmental management, and exists to help us: 1. minimize how our operations negatively affect the environment (i.e. cause adverse changes to air, water, or land); 2. comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmentally oriented requirements; 3. show continuous improvement in points 1. and 2. above. Relevant staff have already been briefed, so there’s no need to do anything except follow procedures in your area as normal.” Ian McCormack - Energy & Environmental Manager
