Health and Safety POLICY

3. HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEES

The School Health, Safety and Security Committee is chaired by the Head of School and meets once per semester. The Committee promotes a positive attitude to health and safety amongst staff and students and acts as a focus for observations on the problems of health and safety.

Remit of the Committee:

• To advise the Head of School on health, safety and security matters within the School.

• To review the School's health and safety policy and safe codes of working practice.
  

• To act as a forum for consultation and discussion on matters relating to health, safety and security. 
  

• To examine and discuss the findings of internal and external safety inspections and audits. 

• To examine the School's accident and near-miss incident reports.
  

Membership of the Committee

Name	Role
Prof. Dave Robertson	Convener
David Hamilton	Health and Safety Manager
Prof. Bob Fisher	School Laser Supervisor
Hugh Cameron	M.S.F. Union Representative
Alison Downie	Computing Representative
Neil McGillivray	Teaching Organisation Representative
Sofi Freijeiro-Armitage	Admin Representative
Grant Olney Passmore	Student Representative

Future meeting dates and minutes of previous meetings are published at http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/admin/committees/safety/meetings/

Any member of School who wishes to raise a health and safety or security related item at this Committee should inform their Committee Representative or the Health and Safety Manager/Assistant.


Multi-Occupancy Building Users Group (MOBUG) Committees are established for Appleton Tower and the Forum to focus on fire safety related issues. The convener, Dave Hamilton, is given the authority by the Head of School to ensure that all fire safety matters appertaining to both buildings are maintained. The MOBUG committees have representatives from the Fire Safety Unit, Estates and Buildings and each Department or Unit occupying the building.