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1. The document outlines safety and security rules for civil engineering laboratories at a university department. 2. It details responsibilities for staff and students, including taking reasonable care of their own safety and others, wearing appropriate protective gear, and reporting any incidents or hazards. 3. Working alone is to be avoided, and defined as being out of sight or sound of others for more than a few minutes. Guidelines state any task with identifiable safety hazards requires more than one person.

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Lab Regs PDF

1. The document outlines safety and security rules for civil engineering laboratories at a university department. 2. It details responsibilities for staff and students, including taking reasonable care of their own safety and others, wearing appropriate protective gear, and reporting any incidents or hazards. 3. Working alone is to be avoided, and defined as being out of sight or sound of others for more than a few minutes. Guidelines state any task with identifiable safety hazards requires more than one person.

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RULES REGARDING SAFETY AND SECURITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

LABORATORIES AT THE DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING AND CIVIL


ENGINEERING, FACULTY FOR THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT.

1. 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
1.1 Staff and Students
Staff should:
• Take action to eliminate, avoid or minimise 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 wilfully 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.
• Only consume or storing food and drink in designated areas
• 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'.

1.2 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 hazafrads.
• 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.

2. Working Alone

Definitions
• ‘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.
2.2 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 recognised that even the simplest of tasks contain certain
hazards and hence working without a second person is to be
avoided.
3. Laboratory Security
For reasons of both safety and security, use of the laboratory outside
normal working hours in the absence of technical staff is subject to
prior approval from the Laboratory Director and such permission, when
granted will apply only to the applicant, who will be expected to justify
the need for such use, the duration and the lab areas/equipment which
are intended to be used.

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