The Safety Instructions accessible from this page have replaced previous Administrative Instructions dealing with Health and Safety and include new instructions covering modern topics. In some places you will find instructions that are supplemental to the University Health, Safety and Wellbeing webpages for work activities conducted within the School of Engineering. These may outline who in the School is responsible, or will state where there are specific departmental arrangements in place.

Safety Instructions will be reviewed on a regular basis and any suggestions for improvements or alterations to take account of changing work practices should be sent to the page contact at the foot of this page.

1. Accidents and Incidents
2. Biosafety and Genetic Modification
3. Building Safety including new builds and refurbishments, building faults and maintanance, roof access and relocations
4. Buying Machinery and Equipment Safety. [For machinery sale or disposal see 'Waste Disposal' below].
5. Chemical Safety (see also Laboratory and Workshop Safety (below) and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) risk assessment that can be used for capturing significant risks from substances in the workplace including process dusts, mists, fumes, vapours etc., in the School of Engineering
6. Children at Work Policy
7. Cleaning of Laboratory Facilities
8. Compressed Air Tools and Compressed Air Systems
9. Continuous Running Equipment
10. Display Screen Equipment and Office Safety
11. Driving for Work including driving of Minibuses
12. Electricity and Electrical Safety. Standards for reference purposes for low voltage systems (note that these can be downloaded from the library).
13. a) Fieldwork Guidance and Policy b) Example Fieldwork risk assessment template and example itinerary template
14. Fire
15. Fire Procedure (School of Engineering and WMG)
16. First Aid
17. Gas Safety in Engineering and Gas Cylinders
18. Health - Managing your Health in an Engineering environment
19. Health and Safety Training
20. Ionising Radiation - use of, and Non-Ionising Radiation
21. Insurance (ensure you know what is covered and what is not)
22. Laboratories and Workshop Safety
23. Laboratory work for student projects in vacations and outside normal working hours and for projects involving working off campus
24. Laser Safety
25. Lifting Equipment (and LOLER)
26. Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) for controlling exposure to hazardous substances and process emissions
27. Lone Working (click LW policy in given link)
28. Manual Handling, Lifting and Carrying and Engineering Manual Handling Risk Assessment Form
29. Microelectronics - Assessing the chemical risks under COSHH connected to microelectronics
30. Nanotechnology Safety Guidance
31. Noise and Ultrasound
32. Occupational Health
33. Placements a) Guidance for those Organising Student Placements b) Guidance for Students going on Placement
34. Portable Equipment Taken Off Site
35. Postgraduate Demonstrators
36. Pressure Systems
37. Purchase, Handling, Maintenance and Storage of Articles and Substances
38. Risk Assessment procedures - including links to specific assessments (COSHH, Display Screen Equipment, Manual Handling Operations, pregnancy/new mother, Biological, fieldwork, etc)
39. Robot Safety
40. Safety Audits and Inspections
41. Safety Committee - Terms of Reference and Constitution
42. Safety Plan
43. Safety Signs - know your signs
44. Smoking Policy
45. Travel and Health Overseas
46. Violent or Abusive Behaviour
47. Work at Height and Selecting the Right piece of Access or Work at Height Equipment
48. Waste Disposal including the sale and disposal of machinery and laser systems and the disposal of radioactive materials, batteries, chemicals, IT equipment and other materials generally used across the School.
49. Welding Safety Guidance - MMA only but being expanded to include other welding operations