Rules Regarding Safety Civil Engineering Laboratories.docx

RULES REGARDING SAFETY CIVIL ENGINEERING LABORATORIES General All staff and students who undertake work in the laboratories must take reasonable care of their own health and safety and the health and safety of others

Staff Staff should: • Take action to eliminate, avoid or minimize hazards of which they are aware. • Comply with all occupational health and safety instructions, policies and procedures. • Make proper use of all safety devices and personal protective equipment. • Not willfully placing at risk the health and safety of any other person. • Seek information or advice where necessary before carrying out new or unfamiliar work. • Maintain dress standards appropriate for the work being done. • Wear appropriate protective clothing and footwear at all times. • Be familiar with emergency and evacuation procedures and the location of, and if appropriately trained, the use of, emergency equipment. • Report all incidents, hazards and 'near-misses'.

Students Students must in particular: • Wear shoes that fully cover their feet (bare feet, thongs or open toed sandals are unacceptable). Students with inappropriate foot wear will not be permitted in the laboratory. • Wear appropriate clothing to avoid safety hazards. • Conduct themselves in an appropriate and responsible manner to ensure their own safety and the safety of others. • Comply with the instructions of academic/technical staff and any safety notices. • Must remain within designated areas. • Not touch any equipment unless instructed by responsible academic/technical staff.

Working Alone Definations: • ‘Working Alone’ : performance of any work by any individual who is out of audio or visual range of another person for more than a few minutes at a time. • ‘Second Person’ : An observer in a ‘one person’ job whose responsibility it to be a safety watch for the solitary worker, when an incapacitating accident is possible. • ‘Incapacitating Accident’ : One that makes the victim incapable of obtaining help. Guidelines • Any non-routine job function with identifiable safety hazards in which the probability of an accident occurring is sufficient to warrant the presence of more than one person. • It is recognized that even the simplest of tasks contain certain hazards and hence working without a second person is to be avoided.