(Cornwall staff only)
Health and Safety
The Health and Safety Team
The Health and Safety Team comprise a number of centrally appointed professional health and safety advisors. We support the University to provide safe working environments, provide technical advice, training and support, to help those with a duty to ensure anyone who carries out or may be affected by the University's undertaking remains safe and healthy, and consequently ensures the University meets all of its health and safety legal requirements.
We have adopted a health and safety management system that aligns to the HSE’s HSG65. The system utilises a continual cycles approach to all health and safety activities, the basis of this being Planning, Doing, Checking, and Acting.
We understand and appreciate some of these requirements may appear challenging to some of the individuals with a health and safety duty. Our focus is to support these people in any way we can to get to a place of safety for anyone undertaking or being affected by this work.
Our approach is not one of a regulator and we don’t undertake these types of inspections or activities, although we do support any external regulators that request information or visits. Our job is to monitor, audit, review and advise, to ensure processes are being adhered to – this is purely to protect the individual/manager and University.
We support Faculty and Professional Services Directors Senior Teams by aligning a health and safety advisor/lead to support and advise on what and how to undertake and deliver their health and safety duties. This will ensure they manage, support and keep safe all those persons who may be affected by the work being undertaken.
Our roles do not include:
- Ordering or paying for new or replacement safety equipment and supplies, checking that your supplies are in date or equipment is maintained appropriately. This responsibility lies with the person appointed within your faculty or professional service.
- Approving local risk assessments and/or standard operating procedures, although we are happy to advise and support. This responsibility lies with the person carrying out the work and will require their manager to be a secondary signatory.
- Actively looking to stop any work activity although we will advise on the best way to manage the activity being proposed. We may in extreme cases, if the risk of serious injury is clear and obvious, advise work is suspended until safe practices can be introduced.







