Health & Safety

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 requires every organisation to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of its employees, and requires it not to put anyone at risk as a result of its activities.

The Company's policy is not only to comply fully with the Health and Safety at Work Act as required by law, but to act positively to prevent injury, ill health damage and loss arising from our activities. Our aim is excellence in health and safety, by means of a continuous improvement of standards, systematically removing the causes of accidents and ill-health.

The pursuit of excellence in health and safety is as important as the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, and the other activities of the Company. If there is a conflict between safety and another aim, then safety must not be sacrificed. If necessary the safety officer has the absolute authority to stop or suspend any dangerous activity or practice. The responsibilities set out in this document are to ensure that no activity must be pursued without prior consideration of the safety aspects, and an activity which cannot be carried out to an adequate safety standard should not be carried out.

Senior Management are committed to providing the financial and physical resources necessary to ensure that a high standard of health and safety is achieved. People are our most valuable resource, and the safeguarding of human as well as other resources through health and safety is important, not only for its own sake, but also as a way of minimising costs.

Health and safety are an integral part of the duties of all members of staff, for which they are held accountable at all levels. In particular, those responsible for the work of or in charge of sites or employees of the Company, are responsible for their health and safety. Those with such positions of responsibility must encourage a commitment to health and safety, and encourage everyone, staff and students, to regard good safety practice as the norm, and to help in establishing and observing high standards of health and safety.