Wednesday 12 February, 9.30am – 10.30am
Collegiate Campus
This session aims to introduce staff and post graduate students who work in research laboratories (or have management interests in labs, including maintenance responsibilities) to a series of governing principles for the purpose of establishing and maintaining effective health, safety and environmental risk management within research and teaching laboratories at Sheffield Hallam University. The session is based around the recently introduced guidance note. See the publication and the staff intranet page for further information. https://staff.shu.ac.uk/healthandsafety/labman.asp
Topics covered in the session include: • Effective business and estates planning • Competence to work in laboratories • Exposure-based risk assessments and safe systems of work • Housekeeping • Safe maintenance • Health surveillance • Security around hazardous agents to prevent misuse • Environmental impacts and sustainability Please make sure that you have your manager’s approval to attend this course.
To book a place on this course please go to the CORE Portal