All Occupational Health and Safety Service courses

This course is for staff who regularly use mobile towers. It focuses on updating staff on the health and safety issues associated with this specific item of equipment used for accessing height. It will remind participants about Work at Height and the correct and safe use of mobile towers. It is assumed that staff attending this course will be regular users and have had equipment assembly training either internally or from the supplier when the tower was purchased.

This course is primarily for staff from institutions who wish to undertake their own ladder inspections, to comply with the requirements under the Provision and Use of Workplace Equipment Regulations (PUWER) and the Work at Height Regulations for competent inspection for access to and work at height.

This course is a more advanced version of Basic ladder safety and is assessed by practical and theoretical applications.

The course will provide an overview of the Human Tissue Act and will be delivered by Dr Rachel Smith from the MRC Regulatory Support Centre. The Centre provides training, support and guidance to those whose research involves human participants, their tissue, cells or data.

Please contact Carolyn Read to book a place.

Anyone who is or will be a first-time user or supervisor of x-ray equipment or other equipment generating ionising radiation is expected to attend this course before they begin work. Existing users and supervisors of these items of equipment who are new to the University should also attend.

This course has been put on by popular demand to help those who have the task of reviewing and revising safety policies. It will concentrate on the characteristics, content and format of a departmental safety policy. You will also be given the opportunity to reflect on your own departmental policy.