School Safety Advisers

Training course on the role and responsibilities of the School (Area) Safety Adviser

No formal qualifications or standards of training for Health and Safety Advisers have yet been set down in any of the relevant legislation. Appropriate training, to assist School (or area) Safety Advisers to understand and perform their role and functions within their own schools, is available on People and Money.   It is expected that all School (or area) Safety Advisers complete this online training course.

Course outline

This course covers the following information:

  • Health and safety law and University health and safety policy

  • University management structure and roles and responsibilities

  • Accident and incident reporting, training, and risk assessment

  • Accident and incident management - including how to report an accident etc., and how to use the AIR system to manage your accidents etc. and a template investigation form

  • Further useful documents

  • Further useful links

Accessing the course

An online course is available for all School Safety Advisers.   Please click on the button below to self-enrol.