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Safety Alert:
Lloytron A134 Travel Adaptors
The adaptor has been withdrawn from sale in the SU retail outlets due to safety concerns. There is a risk of electric shock through contact with the pins. As certain two pin plugs are inserted into the adaptor, the pins become live before the plug is fully inserted.
Trading Standards have confirmed that the adaptor does not meet current UK safety standards and so it is being withdrawn from general sale.
A European travel adaptor which complies with UK safety standards is available to purchase at the Copy Centre and Student Union retail shop, Colchester campus. Find out more.
Buying Work Equipment: Health and Safety Considerations
When you purchase work equipment you are responsible for ensuring it complies with the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations. Health and safety considerations to be taken into account when buying equipment from a source unknown to you, online or second hand.
Business in the Community’s 2012 Awards
The University of Essex was highly commended in the recent Business in the Community’s 2012 Awards for Excellence in the Staying Healthy at Work category, for our commitment to encouraging staff to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Find out more.
Health and Safety Incident Report Forms
The incident report forms have been updated to indicate they are for use by UECS as well as the University and to indicate under the Data Protection Act details that some forms will be sent to the Occupational Health Service for further help and support.
Health and Safety Bulletins
Health and safety bulletins are short communications designed to keep you up to date with information you need to manage health and safety or work safely. They are issued as and when required and posted at H & S Bulletins
Changes to your Occupational Health Service
The University of Essex Occupational Health Service provides services to protect health at work, assess and advise on fitness for work and to ensure that health issues are effectively managed.
Our aim is to promote and support a culture where the physical and psychological health of staff, students and others involved in the University is respected, protected and improved whilst at work.
Up to date news of service provision changes in Occupational Health
The Occupational Health Service (OH) welcomes new contracts now providing OH services to Writtle College, Colchester Institute/Braintree College and University Campus Suffolk.
With the growth of these services we now welcome two new staff to the OH team, Sarah Lyster, Occupational Health Advisor and Michelle Burrows, Occupational Health Assistant.
OH is now providing physiotherapy and rehabilitation services for all staff. Physiotherapy is being offered free for staff with a clinical need, this is being provided by physiotherapist lecturers from HHS and in time they may have students working with them on clinical placement.
In conjunction with the sports centre, staff who have been recommended physical rehabilitation can access the sports centre with an OH rehab pass. The will be shown what equipment to use by the Physiotherapists. Plans are underway to run classes for back, hip and knee, cardiac and rehab with the sports centre staff.
We are also delighted to announce another rehabilitation service through Zurich Insurance. Working in partnership, we can refer any member of staff who has been injured at work for physiotherapy/physical or mental rehabilitation.
Any staff wishing to access physiotherapy must be referred to Occupational Health by their line manager, the referral form can be found on the OH website.
We continue to provide counselling services for all staff, please contact OH for contact numbers or any other questions regarding this service.
Lara Carmel
Head of Occupational Health
New Guidance on Health and Safety in Fieldwork
New guidance on Health and Safety in Fieldwork has just been published by UCEA / USHA. This supersedes their 2005 document Safety in Fieldwork. The guidance can be found on the UCEA website by following the link below:
Health and Safety in Fieldwork(UCEA/USHA)
Health and Safety Course Dates 2012-13 now available
Health and safety course dates for the 2012-13 academic year are now available. Please follow the Induction and Training link to view them.