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- H&S policies and guidance
- Children, young people and vulnerable adults on campus
- Control of substances hazardous to health (CoSHH)
- Dogs in university buildings
- Display Screen Equipment (DSE)
- Driving vehicles on university business
- Fieldwork
- Fire safety
- First aid
- General risk assessment
- Health and safety policy and management
- Manual handling
- Meningitis
- Portable appliance testing (PAT)
- Radiation safety
- Smoking policy
- Forms, signs and templates
- How to...
- Health and safety training
- Health & Safety Committee
- H&S policies and guidance
4.7 Medical facilities and welfare
(1) First Aid
In compliance with the Health and Safety (First Aid Regulations (1981), the University provides first aid cover in the event of an injury by maintaining a network of approximately 200 staff, who are qualified as (HSE Approved) First Aiders. Cover is as comprehensive as possible over all of the University sites. A list of First Aiders is available on the HS&E Office webpage.
The aims of First Aid:
- To preserve life
- To limit the effects of the condition
- To promote recovery
First Aiders gain competence by:
- initially attending a “First Aid at Work” course by an HSE approved training provider (eg Red Cross, St John Ambulance) and passing an examination;
- attending “First Aid at Work” refresher courses at three yearly intervals, and passing an examination.
A First Aider will:
- be summoned to the scene of an incident/accident;
- assess a situation quickly and safely, and summon appropriate help;
- identify, as far as possible, the injury or nature of the illness affecting a casualty;
- give early, appropriate and adequate treatment in a sensible order of priority;
- arrange for the removal of the casualty to hospital, to the care of a doctor, or home;
- remain with the casualty until handing him or her over to the care of an appropriate person; and;
- ensure that a University Accident/Near Miss Report (“green”) form is completed and returned to the Health & Safety Office.
(2) Facilities for expectant and nursing mothers / First Aid Rooms
In compliance with the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations (1992) the University provides rest facilities for expectant and nursing mothers. These facilities are provided in the First Aid Rooms at each University site:
- Streatham campus: First Aid Room, Ground Floor, Peter Harrison Building (Engineering).
- St Luke’s campus: First Aid Room (to be assigned and refurbished).
- University of Exeter in Cornwall (Tremough campus): Reception Area, Daphne Du Maurier Building.
(3) Occupational Health Services
Occupational Health Services provide advice, consultation and surveillance in occupational health. The duties of these staff are listed under Section 3.3.
