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Employee Safety Responsibilities

Employee safety responsibilities are published in Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ês Organisation and Arrangements for Safety section 3.1.8 and are as follows:

The attention of all Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê employees is drawn to their legal responsibilities1:

  • To take reasonable care of themselves and all others who may be affected by their acts and omissions
  • To co-operate with both the central and Departmental policy and arrangements for safe working including any training and occupational health requirements
  • Not to interfere with or misuse anything, objects, structures or systems of work, provided by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê in the interests of health and safety2

Any failure to comply with the above may lead to disciplinary action which could result in dismissal. Any breach of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's health and safety rules that places a member of staff or others in danger will be treated as gross misconduct under Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's Disciplinary Procedure.

If you or your colleagues think there is a health and safety concern the steps you should consider in ranked priority order are:

  • Discuss the matter with your line manager
  • In the case of work-related health matters request a referral to the Occupational Health Service using the following link:
  • Contact your nominated Departmental Safety Specialist relevant to the topic area
  • Contact your health and safety representative

and at any time you can

  • Discuss the matter with Safety Advisers in Safety Services

1Section 7 of the

2Section 8 of the