12.11  Health and Safety 

Introduction

This category covers information about Edinburgh Napier University's health & safety policies, risk assessment policies, procedures and record.

Policies

Policies, procedures and guidelines relating to health and safety can be found on the Health and Safety intranet site. 

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Annual Reports

Reports to governing body on health and safety issues. Agendas and minutes of Health & Safety Committee from 2005 onwards can be found on the Health and Safety Committee site.  

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Monitoring

Mechanisms for monitoring and reporting on health and safety issues. How the University complies with Health and Safety Executive guidelines and targets and risk assessment policies are available from the Health and Safety site or by writing to us at foi@napier.ac.uk 

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Statistics

Summary statistics on accidents and incidents within our University are covered in this class.  Reports and summaries eg annual data on accidents, serious accidents and hazardous incidents can be made available via foi@napier.ac.uk

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Support structures

Information on our support structure for health and safety is included under this class.  For information regarding the management structure and duties within the Health & Safety office and the remit of the membership of the Health and Safety Committee, Further information can be found on the Health and Safety intranet site

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Emergencies

This section sets provides information and links to our support arrangements for health and safety emergencies and our Emergency response guidelines.  Information regarding emergency response procedures including:

• Assembly points
• Disabled refuges

and emergency procedures for:

• 42 Colinton Road
• Bankhead Workspace
• Craighouse Lodge
• The Forum

can all be found here.

The first action in almost every emergency is to contact:

Central Security Control ext 4444 or 0131 455 4444

Contact information

Details of how to get information about health and safety issues from the Health and Safety Office or from the Occupational Health Service Office are available from the Health and Safety intranet site

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