Full Health and Safety information is available on the HSS intranet site here.
Fire Safety Information
On hearing the fire alarm
- ALWAYS leave the building quickly. The emergency may be a fire or it may be a different type of emergency.
- Leave directly. If you are not in your office, do not divert or return to collect belongings. It could cost you your life.
- Look for the green exit signs in the corridors and follow them to the nearest exit route. This is not necessarily the same way you came in.
- Obey your fire marshalls. In the event of a fire or other evacuation, they will be identified by their high-vis jackets. You can see a list of fire marshals for Arundel on the health and safety site here.
- Move quickly to your assembly point; for Arundel this is at Pinball Park, alongside the HUBs building (a map of all assembly points is available here).
- Don’t try and re-enter the building until you are given the all-clear from SHU Security, or from the fire marshals, or from the firefighters if they are in attendance.
- Just because the alarm is silenced it does not mean the emergency is over.
General fire safety:
- Don’t wedge fire doors open. They form part of the fire-walls which prevent fire and smoke spreading.
- Don’t move fire extinguishers from their brackets; they are there for a reason.
- Don’t leave objects in escape corridors where they become obstacles to people who may need to escape quickly.
Information for teaching staff:
- If you are in charge of students, it is your responsibility to ensure that they leave the building quickly and that they go to the assembly point.
Alarm Testing
- There will be weekly tests of the fire alarm in the building every Monday morning.
Emergency Phone
Arundel works partially on the VoIP data network. If the network goes down, the phone will not work. In the case of an emergency, traditional type phones which does not require any logging on are available.
Smoking Policy
Smoking of both cigarettes and e-cigarettes is prohibited to all employees, contractors, visitors and students of Sheffield Hallam University on all University premises and in all University vehicles.
For further information and the university’s smoking policy please visit: https://portal.shu.ac.uk/departments/HRD/polproc/Pages/nosmoke.aspx
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First Aid Procedures
In Working Hours
If first aid is required during working hours contact the nearest first aider (first aider contact details can be found on Health and Safety signage displayed throughout Arundel House) or should you be unable to reach the nearest first aider you should contact the Control Room on ext.2000. All security staff are first aiders.
In the case of an emergency where life is threatened (e.g. where the casualty is unconscious, is experiencing a suspected heart attack, stroke or other medical emergency where rapid medical attention can result in increased chance of survival/ recovery) (9)999 can be dialled directly from any internal phone line. To ensure that the casualty is reached promptly the internal emergency number of 888 should also be dialled providing the following details:
- Your full name and the name of the casualty
- The nature of the emergency
- The exact location of the casualty
- Confirm if you have already contacted emergency services directly
Outside Working Hours
If first aid assistance is required outside normal working hours contact Control Room in 2000 or 888 in an emergency or alternatively dial (9) 999 directly referring to the advise found under ‘In Working Hours’
Location of the First Aid Box, Accident Book and First Aid Room
- There are first aid boxes located with your first aider. (First aider contacts details can be found on the Health and Safety signage displayed throughout Arundel).
- If first aid assistance is required outside normal working hours contact Control Room in 2000 or 888 in an emergency or alternatively dial (9) 999 directly referring to the advise found under ‘In Working Hours’ .
- The internal emergency number can also be contacted directly and using the above details list they will contact the emergency services for you.