Training
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 currently available via the Health & Safety Office.
Specialised course or non-core courses or off-programme courses and courses covered by note 2 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 |
Availability |
24/7 |
Monthly (Central Programme) |
24/7 |
No Longer Available (see note 1 below) |
Monthly (Central Programme) |
Current Unavailable (see note 2 below) |
Note 1: Managing Health & Safety training is no longer available via the H&SO. Department personnel should undertake an online IOSH accredited managing of H&S course (3-day duration). These are available monthly via reputable H&S training providers listed on Agresso (a direct pay arrangement between departments and the provider).
Note 2: Risk assessment training is currently unavailable. This will be reviewed in 2023.
Table two below details other core courses that are not delivered by the Health & Safety Office.
For Fire Safety related training, please contact Declan O'Shea, Operational 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, reporting to Pat Cotter the General Services Officer.
Course |
Fire Drill |
Use of Fire Extinguisher |
Fire Marshall |
Frequency |
Annually |
5 yrs |
5 yrs |
Applicable to: |
All staff |
All staff |
Select |
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.