HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The University’s responsibility for safety in the School is discharged by the Head of School, Professor Christian Delles, who is directly responsible to Head of College, MLVS.

Professor Delles and the School Executive delegate authority to the ISCMH Health & Safety Committee who in turn expect all staff to care for the health and safety of fellow staff, students, patients and visitors under their immediate supervision.

It is the responsibility of the Line Manager/PI with the support of the Local Safety Advisor to ensure that the safety policy of School is followed and properly implemented.

Below is an outline of the roles and responsibilities expected from line managers, local safety coordinators and the School Health and Safety Committee.

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Line Managers

  • Knows and understands own responsibilities for managing health and safety and ensures that the University's Health, Safety and Wellbeing Policy is brought to the attention of all employees within their area of control.
  • Understands risks associated with the work they are responsible for and what they need to do to control them.
  • Knows what they need to do to ensure the competence and capability of employees in their area of responsibility.
  • Knows what they need to do to monitor health and safety in their area of responsibility.
  • Provides support to employees with long term sickness absences to return to work.
  • Ensure that staff, students and visitors are provided with adequate information about the risks they may face and about any action they need to take to prevent any injury or ill health.

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Health and Safety Committee

  • Identify the legal requirements and University of College policy affecting the work of the unit and assist in devising suitable management systems to enable compliance with these.
  • Develop communication strategies to ensure that all staff clearly understand their individual safety responsibilities both as individuals and with regard to any supervisory or managerial role that they may hold.
  • Prepare documented procedures and arrangements for the management of health and safety and environmental protection within the unit.
  • Develop systems and arrangements to ensure that risk assessments are conducted, recorded and reviewed and that any risks so identified are adequately controlled.

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Local Safety Advisor

  • Ensure that all new staff receive a safety induction into the unit and are made aware of all precautions and procedures applicable to the job and of emergency procedures.
  • Ensure that systems are in place to record, investigate and report on any accidents and incidents that occur.
  • Develop systems for periodic inspection and auditing of local safety arrangements and for submission of reports to appropriate local managers and local safety committees.
  • Develop and establish suitable local emergency procedures.
  • Establish procedures to periodically inspect all equipment managed by the unit and to maintain this in a safe condition, whether by in-house staff or by specialist contractors and to identify and report safety defects in the workplace environment to Estates and Buildings.

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