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11: General Information

General information

Personal and Community Safety

To feel and stay safe on campus, please familiarise yourself with some guidelines that the Community Safety team have provided for students on the Community SafetyLink opens in a new window website. It offers advice on how to stay safe in your student home on and off campus, and how best to protect your property. You will also find details of who you need to call when in need of help.

Health and Safety

We consider that high standards of health and safety are of paramount importance in enabling us to achieve our objectives. We view compliance with legal requirements as the minimum acceptable health and safety standard. We are committed to planning, reviewing and developing health and safety arrangements in order to achieve a continual improvement in performance.

All staff, students and others working in the Department are expected to adopt a positive attitude to health and safety issues and must comply with appropriate legal requirements and University requirements as laid down in the University's Health and Safety PolicyLink opens in a new window.

At Warwick we’re part of a community that cares about one another. We place emphasis on everyone's personal responsibility to behave in a way that protects each other keeping our wider community safe.

All staff and students should take time to read the information on the ‘Stay safe at WarwickLink opens in a new window’ webpages.

The Head of Department, Professor Ben Lockwood, holds the ultimate responsibility for health and safety within the Department, but delegates elements of the maintenance, monitoring, development and implementation of health and safety policy and practices to the Director of Operations, Sarah Duggan, whose roles include that of the Department Health and Safety Officer (DHSO).

You should inform the DHSO of any situation that you consider a real or potential hazard or shortcomings in health and safety arrangements. The situation will be added to our risk register, the risk evaluated, and reasonably practicable measures should be put in place to eliminate or reduce the risk.

We will make suitable arrangements for health and safety within the limits of available financial and physical resources. Any relevant information on health and safety will be communicated to people working in the Department.

Information on fire evacuation procedures, first aid and emergency contact details can be found on laminated notices in all rooms allocated to the Department. You should also familiarise yourself with the evacuation procedure for other buildings on campus where you have lectures and seminars.

University values, policies and regulations

We place great importance on the responsible behaviour of both our students and staff at Warwick. It is important for you, as a student, to have an idea of Warwick’s core values and an understanding of the primary expectations of student members of the Warwick community. Take a look at the following to help you understand what this means for you:

Our PrinciplesLink opens in a new window, which sets out our expectations of how we behave as a University community, both as individuals and as an institution.

Dignity at Warwick PolicyLink opens in a new window, setting out how our differences are respected and valued and how we aim to prevent and address harassment and bullying.

Social Inclusion StrategyLink opens in a new window, which aspires to remove economic, social and cultural barriers that have prevented people from working, studying and succeeding at Warwick.

University StrategyLink opens in a new window, which sets our vision as a world-class university and our values.

Warwick Student Community StatementLink opens in a new window, which sets out aims for the University as well as for students.

University CalendarLink opens in a new window, the main ‘rule book’ and includes ordinances and regulations which you need to be aware of, including examinations, cheating, use of computing facilities and behaviour.

Student Rights and ResponsibilitiesLink opens in a new window, which provides quick and easy links to University regulations, policies and guidelines that govern what you can expect from the University and what you need to adhere to as a student.

Report + SupportLink opens in a new window
Everyone at the University of Warwick, whether studying, working, or visiting, has the right to feel safe. Harassment of any kind is completely unacceptable, and our community is an environment where prejudice and socially unacceptable behaviour are never tolerated.

Other University Policies which you may find useful to consult are listed below:

University Regulations which you may find useful to consult are listed below:

Information

The information in this Handbook is as accurate and up-to-date as we can make it. Statements of departmental policy are made in good faith and are an honest attempt to describe current practices, but they do not replace entries in University regulations. In the event of uncertainty the University Calendar and Regulations take precedence.