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Staff Health & Safety Training
Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 the employer has a responsibility via functional area line management to provide adequate instruction and training for each employee. Specifically, the Act states that there is a number of courses that are mandatory for each employee to undertake. These courses include: Display Screen Equipment training, Manual Handling training and Fire training/emergency procedures.
Subject to Enterprise Risk Management budgets, the office runs a finite monthly and rolling quarterly schedule of selected core training courses, to part-assist schools & departments with their overall staff training needs analysis.
The tables below detail the courses currently available via Enterprise Risk Management.
Specialised courses, non-core courses or off-programme courses are a direct provision matter for relevant Schools/Departments across UCC.
Course |
DSE online |
Manual Handling |
Fire Safety Awareness |
Occupational Health & Safety Awareness for Managers |
First Aid |
Risk Assessment |
Hybrid Working |
Frequency |
3 yrs |
3 yrs |
3 yrs |
3 yrs |
2 yrs |
3 yrs |
3 yrs |
Applicable to: |
All staff |
All staff |
All staff |
Managers & Supervisors and PIs |
Select |
Heads, Managers, PIs, Technical staff, Select |
All staff |
Availability |
24/7 |
Monthly |
24/7 |
Bimonthly |
Monthly |
24/7 |
24/7 |
Course |
Use of Fire Extinguisher |
Fire Marshal |
Chemical Assessment and Control |
Hazardous Substances |
Asbestos Awareness |
Working at Height Awareness |
Lock Out, Tag Out |
Frequency |
3 yrs |
3 yrs |
3 yrs |
3 yrs |
3 yrs |
3 yrs |
3 yrs |
Applicable to: |
All staff |
Select |
Select |
Select |
Select |
Select |
Select |
Availability |
Monthly from Q2 2024 |
Monthly from Q2 2024 |
24/7 | 24/7 | 24/7 | 24/7 | 24/7 |
Ergonomic Safety While Working Remotely
Useful information regarding your ergonomic safety while working remotely can be found here: Home Worker Ergonomic Guide.
A new, illustrated, excel-based UCC VDU self-assessment tool can be used to risk assess both campus-based or remote workstations. The tool can be downloaded here.