Health and Safety

Topic-based health and safety information

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Policies and Guidance
Health and Safety Department Guides and Support
Accidents and Incidents
AEDs (Defibrillators)
Agile working
Alcohol and Drug Use
Animals (working with)
Asbestos
Biological and Genetic Modification Safety
Breaks
Business Units Health and Safety Committees
Carcinogens
Centrifuges
Children - Safety on University Premises
Compressed Gases
Confined Spaces
Contractors / CDM (Construction Design & Management)
COSHH - Control of Substances Hazardous to Health / Chemicals
Cryogenic Liquids
Display Screen Equipment (DSE / Computers / VDUs)
Diving (SubAqua)
Driving
Drones
Drug Precursors
DSEAR (Explosive Atmospheres / Dangerous Substances)
E-Scooters
EMF (Electric and Magnetic Fields)
Electrical Safety
Electronic Devices (in Labs)
Emergency Procedures
Events
Explosives
Fieldwork (Offsite activity)
Fire Safety
First Aid
Food Safety
Forklift Trucks
Fume Cupboards / Fume Hoods (LEV)
Ground Penetration / Excavation
Hazard Mapping / Hazard Profiling
Hazardous Substances (storage / waste)
Health Surveillance
Hotwork
Infrastructure / Assets
KPI's (Key Performance Indicators)
Laboratory Animal Allergens (Insects)
Lab Coats
Laboratory (Design)
Laser Safety
Latex
Legal Register
Legionella
Lifting Equipment
LEV (Local Exhaust Ventilation) Fume Cupboards/Hoods
Lone Working (Out of Hours)
Mains Gas
Management of Health and Safety
Manual Handling (Moving and Handling)
Microwaves
Minibuses
Monitoring (Housekeeping / Inspections / Audits)
Nanomaterials
Noise
Occupational Health
Office Safety 
Offsite activity (fieldwork)
Overseas Travel (International Travel / Off-site Working / Fieldwork)
PEEPs (Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans) GEEPs
Permits to Work (In development)
PPE Personal Protective Equipment
Pets
Placements
Pregnancy (Expectant Mothers)
Pressure Systems
Radiation (Ionising / Non-Ionising / Isostock) 
Risk Assessment
Risk Profiling
Roles and Responsibilities
Roofwork
Safety Signs
Shared Spaces ( MOU, Memorandum of Understanding)
Sharps
Spills of Hazardous Substances
Smoking
Storage (Hazardous Substances / Chemicals)
Stress (Wellbeing)
Supervision (Training and Competence)
Temperature
Training
Trams

Transport (Hazardous Substances / Dangerous Goods)
Travel (International / Overseas / Domestic)
Ultraviolet
Vibration (Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome - HAVS)
Vision
Visitors
Wellbeing
Work at height
Work Environment / Workplace Safety
Work Equipment
Work Experience
Young Persons, Children
 

Health and Safety Department

Pharmacy Building (Building 63)
University Park
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

Telephone: Telephone: +44 (0)115 9513401
Email: h&s@nottingham.ac.uk