Commitment to Occupational Health & Safety

UNSW School of Physics OHS Committee

• Constitution
• Committee members

First Aid

• First Aid Officers in Physics
• First Aid Cabinets in Physics (pdf)
• First Aid Cabinet label (pdf)
• UNSW First Aid action plan and Treatment Form (pdf)

Risk assessment

• How to carry out a laboratory risk assessment PDF WORD
• Risk Assessment Form for your laboratory PDF WORD
• Risk rating table now used in UNSW risk assessments (pdf)
• UNSW risk assessments
• SOPs - Standard Operating Procedures

• Laboratory Safety Manual template ready for customising
• Coping with hazardous substances a guide to finding MSDSs

• UNSW Chemical Waste Form - use this when needing to dispose of your waste chemicals (pdf)
• Chemically Contaminated Waste - use this when needing to dispose of gloves, wipes, containers (also as PDF)
• UNSW Procedure for Hazardous Waste Disposal (pdf)

• Save your spine - guidelines for lifting and carrying by Pritipal Baweja (pdf)
• Ergonomics Principles and Guidelines - a general scope of competency required by Area Supervisors (ppt)

• Laser Safety Officer description (pdf)
• Laser eye examination program (pdf)
• Laser eye tested people (pdf)
• Laser warning signs

• Liquid Nitrogen Training Program (pdf)
• SOP - decanting of liquid nitrogen (doc)
• Liquid nitrogen accident May 2003

UNSW Occupational Health & Safety and other documents

• OHS policies, procedures and guidelines
• Research OHS toolkit
• Forms and checklists
• An Occupational Health and Safety Model for Self Insurers WorkCover NSW (pdf)

Auditing OHS

• OHS audit report of Physics - December 2002 (doc)

Managing OHS

• UNSW OHS management system
• School of Physics OHS Management System
  • Area Supervisors
  • Responsibilities of Area Supervisors (doc)
  • Accountability and Responsibility (doc)
  • Responsibility for the ongoing implementation of the OHS Mangement System (doc)
  • OHS Training Needs Analysis and Training Annual Plan (doc)
  • Training records location (pdf)
  • Inspection, Testing and Monitoring Plan (doc)
  • Inspection, Testing and Monitoring Implementation Plan (xls)
  • Hazard identification guide (doc)
  • Hazard identification table (doc)
  • Register of activities table (xls)
  • Physics OHS Officer duties (doc)
  • OHS Management System Development Officer duties (doc)
  • Workplace Inspections
    • Workplace Inspection Procedure (doc) (pdf)
    • General Inspection Checklist (doc) (pdf)
    • Area Specific Inspection Checklist (doc) (pdf)
    • Quarterly Area OHS Report (doc) (pdf)