Estates Health, Safety and Wellbeing Strategic Objectives 2025-26
Estates overarching Health and Safety objective: To ensure the university estate is a safe and secure environment by maintaining compliance with all health and safety regulations, proactively identifying and mitigating risks, and fostering a culture of safety awareness and responsibility across all teams and users.
7 Key Objectives:
1. Audit and Assurance Actions:
Ensure that less than 5% of open actions within the Assure system identified through Proactive Monitoring (audits and inspections) are overdue at any given point in time. These will be monitored by managers and through the Estates Strategic Health, Safety and Wellbeing Group – 31st July 2026.
2. Investigation Actions:
Ensure that less than 5% of open actions within the Assure system identified through Reactive Monitoring (incidents, near misses, ill-health, etc.) are overdue at any given point in time. These will be monitored by managers and through the Estates Strategic Health, Safety and Wellbeing Group – 31st July 2026.
3.Risks:
Ensure that 95% of Risk Assessments are in place for all identified spaces, work activities and equipment that present significant risk. Risk assessments shall be reviewed, where appropriate, following incident/near miss investigation and/or following any significant change to process or activity within agreed timescales. These will be monitored by managers and through the Estates Strategic Health, Safety and Wellbeing Group – 31st July 2026.
4.Training:
Ensure that 95% of mandatory H&S Training courses H&S Induction, Fire Safety and DSE) are completed by staff. This will be monitored by managers and through the Estates Strategic Health, Safety and Wellbeing Group – 31st July 2026.
5. Safe Systems of Work:
Ensure that 95% of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are in place that have been identified as outcomes from risk assessments. This will be monitored by managers and through the Estates Strategic Health, Safety and Wellbeing Group – 31st July 2026. That 95% of the staff identified to receive Toolbox talks have had this form of training. This will be monitored by managers and through the Estates Strategic Health, Safety and Wellbeing Group – 31st July 2026.
6. Take positive action:
Have twice a year health, safety and wellbeing moment as a whole department – 31stJuly 2026
7. Take positive action:
Implement the agreed approach to stress management in accordance with guidance from Health and Safety Services, which includes Stress Risk Assessments (SRAs) to support the wellbeing of our staff by 31st July 2026