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The health and safety objectives for UCL for the 2020/21 academic year are stated below.
Objectives for 2019/2020 were extended into the 2020/2021 academic year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Objectives 1-4 were revised and Objective 5 was new and related to the changing work due to COVID-19.
Objective 1: T100 Programme
- All high hazard departments to have achieved Level 1 by the end of September 2021
- All low hazard departments to have achieved Target 100 Lite by the end of May 2021
Objective 2: Responsible Risk Management
- All Principal Investigators/Laboratory Managers/Heads of Departments to have successfully completed the Level 1 questionnaire of the Responsible Risk Management eLearning module by the end of September 2021.
Objective 3: Statutory Compliance
The established Compliance Working Group of the Health and Safety Committee to have:
- Published new standards for the following areas by October 2020:
- Medical Gases and Alarms
- In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment
- Published revised standards for the following areas by July 2020:
- Water systems at risk from Legionella
- Local Exhaust Ventilation
- Pressurised systems
- Lifting equipment
- Published guidance on practical solutions to resolve areas of uncertainty over responsibilities and ‘institutional non-compliance’ by December 2020
- Full implementation of standards by July 2021
Objective 4: Health Hazards
- All departments to maintain a list of staff exposed to each hazard in their area cross-checked with Workplace Health record management systems by September 2021
- All departments to have completed a Departmental Health Hazard Status Checklist by April 2021 to enable Workplace Health to assign the correct hazard status
Objective 5: Return to Work
To implement specific controls and arrangements relating to the changing nature of certain identified activities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- All departments to have authorised risk assessments for staff returning to work to include the COVID-19 hazard (ongoing)
- Where a risk assessment requires the use of face masks as PPE, departments must have identified and trained a face fit tester and all staff shall have a face fit test
