EH&S procedures and processes

About Safety at the School

The School's EH&S Officer is Esther Mcconnell. Find out more about the Safety Office at the School of Chemistry.

School Safety Manual

The School has many safety procedures and process for staff and students, most of which are contained in the School's Safety Manual. This is a PDF and requires Adobe Acrobat to view. Note that the Safety Manual is under constant review and development .

Recently added or amended procedures

A list of procedures recently amended or added to the School's Safety Manual is available.

Laser Safety

View the Laser Safety training notes. This is a PDF and requires Adobe Acrobat to view.

Responsibilities of supervisors

Staff with supervisory duties must be aware of their responsibilities and obligations under the Occupational Health & Safety Act. In addition, ACADEMIC STAFF are responsible for ensuring that an equivalent standard of environment, health and safety is afforded to their students as is afforded to University staff generally. Academic staff are deemed to have principal supervisory duty for undergraduate and postgraduate student activities. Responsibilities are described in more detail.

Risk assessments

Risk assessments are performed to identify, assess and control hazards in a systematic way that is consistent, relevant and applicable to all University activities. Further information about environmental, chemical and generic risk assessments for common tasks in the School of Chemistry, including forms, is available.

Forms

Various EH&S-related forms can be downloaded, including incident report forms, risk assessment forms and workplace inspection checklists.

SafetyMAP

The University of Melbourne, as a self-insurer for workers' compensation purposes, uses SafetyMAP (Safety Management Achievement Program) as an audit tool to ensure safe systems of work at the University. Find out more about SafetyMAP.