Training
Ergonomic Safety While Temporarily Working from Home
During the current University shutdown due to the Covid-19 outbreak, useful information regarding your ergonomic safety while working from home 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 work-from-home workstations. The tool can be downloaded here.
For First Aiders: Health Service Executive and Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council, Covid-19 Related Advisories
The HSE has provided guidance on providing CPR in the community during the Covid-19 pandemic: HSE Advisory.
The PHECC Medical Advisory Committee has provided guidance to practitioners of all levels related to the outbreak of Covid-19. The full advisory can be found here: PHECC Advisory.
A list of all recent PHECC advisories which will be useful for First Aiders to review can be accessed here.
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: Visual Display Unit training, Manual Handling training and Fire training/emergency procedures.
Subject to Health & Safety Office 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.
Table one below details the courses provided by the Health & Safety Office.
Specialised course or non-core courses or off-programme courses are a direct provision matter for relevant Schools/Deptartments across UCC.
Course |
VDU online |
Manual Handling |
Fire Safety online |
Managing Health & Safety |
First Aid |
Risk Assessment |
Frequency |
3 yrs |
3 yrs |
3 yrs |
5 yrs |
2 yrs |
5 yrs |
Applicable to: |
All staff |
All staff |
All staff |
Managers & Supervisors and PI’s |
Select |
PI’s & Technical staff |
Table two below details other core courses that are not delivered by the Health & Safety Office.
For Fire Safety training, please contact Declan O'Shea, Occipational Fire Officer at declan.oshea@icem.ie. Further contact details are available here: https://www.ucc.ie/en/build/buildings/firesafety/. Declan O'Shea operates under the direction of the Buildings & Estates Office.
Course |
Fire Drill |
Use of Fire Extinguisher |
Fire Marshall |
Frequency |
Annually |
5 yrs |
5 yrs |
Applicable to: |
All staff |
All staff |
Select |