OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

UNSW's aim is to provide a safe, healthy and secure learning and working environment for all students, staff, contractors and visitors. To achieve this goal, everyone has a responsibility for ensuring that their actions do not adversely affect the health, safety and welfare of themselves or others. The university has laid out these goals in its OHS policy. The policy applies to all staff, students, visitors and contractors of UNSW.

Occupational Health and Safety Management Sytem The University has in place an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS). An OHSMS is a set of plans, actions and procedures to manage health and safety in the workplace. All staff, students, visitors and contractors within CSE are required to work within this OHSMS. The system has 6 key elements. The University's OHSMS can be found at the following link:

http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/ohswc/ohs/ohsms.html

The School's implementation of this local management system can be found through each of the links below:

1. Commitment
2. Planning
3. Consultation
4. Implementation
5. Measurement
6. Review

Other important information

If you have identified a hazard in your workplace, or want to report an incident then please refer to

http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/ohswc/ohs/ohs_reporting.html

A shortcut to all OHS forms can be found on the side menu.

Alternatively, if you have any other issues relating to OHS that you want addressed:

Inform your supervisor or manager who will bring the issue to the attention of the School's OHS Committee; OR

If your supervisor or manager does not follow up the issue within 24 hours, then please directly contact your workplace representative (pdf)