University Safety Office

As the University Safety Office we aim to deliver a comprehensive proactive quality Safety Service to the University as a whole, including raising awareness and engendering appropriate behaviours and attitudes to occupational health and safety. These provisions cover advice, training, policy, auditing, monitoring, permissioning and investigation for staff, students, contractors and visitors to the University. The USO is also promoting best practice within the University
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The University Safety Office is administratively a part of the Human Resources Directorate along with the Occupational Health Service and the Staff Development Unit.

USO Training Provision

The USO has numerous courses on offer - mostly free of charge to staff and students at the University (some are also available to people from other organisations. If you cannot find a course to suit please let us know and we will see if we can deliver or source training for you. Next training courses: Information on training courses available

News

NEW DOCUMENTATION

LABORATORY CHECKLISTS

Please view the new health and safety checklists for laboratories now available on the USO website. Please view Safety Management and then Audit and Inspections for access.

NEW FORMS

The USO has now generated new forms for pathogen and toxin registration in the biosafety section. These forms are now simpler and clearer and will facilitate autogeneration of a pathogens register.

In addition to this the carcinogens registration and carcinogen users forms in the hazardous substances section have had a simliar upgrade.

Consultancy Services

We provide commercial safety services for companies seeking expert assistance. follow for more information

University Spin-out Companies
We provide free and very low cost services for spin-out companies. For full details contact the University Safety Office