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Health & Safety

Health, Safety and Welfare Arrangements

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LIRANS Institute of Research in the Applied Natural Sciences includes its own building at Butterfield business park. The University's overarching arrangements for managing health and safety may be found in the University Health and Safety Policy while the particular arrangements for the building at 250 Butterfield are set out in the Local Arrangements:

University Health Safety and Welfare Policy

Local Arrangements

    The arrangements may also be downloaded as a PDF file:

    Local Arrangements - PDF 76.8 KB

      The most recent version of the local arrangements was signed by Professor Tiantian Zhang on 13 April 2011.

      An outline assessment of the hazards within LIRANS is contained within the following document:

      Hazard Identification and Preliminary Assessment - PDF 69.3 KB

        The arrangements at 250 Butterfield were subject to a mini-audit on 6 June 2011.  The feedback sheet is available here:

        Health and Safety Overview Assessment June 2011 - PDF 12.6 KB
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