The Health and Safety Office supports teams across DkIT in creating and maintaining a safe and healthy working environment for all staff, students, contractors, visitors and others affected by its activities.
The role of the DkIT Safety Office is to advise and support across all levels of Institute management and staff, on how best to manage and implement our Safety Management System within our workplace.
This policy is designed to guide all staff and students of DkIT on the procedures in place for the access and provision of first aid assistance. It also outlines the procedures implemented for the maintenance of first aid equipment and supplies, in addition to the reporting of Accidents/Incidents requiring first aid assistance.
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Dundalk Institute of Technology is committed to reducing accidents and ill-health to the staff and students of the Institute. Procedures are in place in the Institute to ensure that all incidents are recorded.
The Accident Incident Report Form linked to below must be completed whenever an accident or incident occurs which results in injury or damage to personnel or property. If personnel or property WERE NOT injured or damaged then the NEAR MISS REPORT form must be used. For additional information please refer to the Incident Accident Reporting Procedures.
The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and the Pregnancy Regulations 2007, require that a risk assessment be done as part of the Safety Statement. This is required in all workplaces.
The risk assessment should identify any hazards, which may present a risk during pregnancy. Once an employer becomes aware that an employee is pregnant, they must assess the specific risks from the employment to that employee and take action to ensure that they are not exposed to anything, which would damage either their health or that of the developing child.
The primary piece of legislation relating to Health & Safety in the workplace is the Safety, Health & Welfare at Work Act 2005. This contains the general framework of rules aimed at preventing accidents and ill-health in the workplace. This legislation is in turn supplemented with a range of regulations aimed at specific issues or activities e.g., construction, chemicals, biological agents, noise, vibration and so on. The most comprehensive set of regulations is the Safety, Health & Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007-2020 which set out specific requirements in a range of work activities (for example work equipment, work at height, exposure to noise and vibration and so on).
The purpose of the Safety, Health & Welfare at Work Act 2005 is to place an onus on employers to ensure that they have done everything "reasonably practicable" to reduce the level of risk to their employees, contractors and members of the public (including students). This Act also clarifies and enhances the responsibilities of not only the employer but the self-employed, employees and various other parties in relation to safety and health at work.
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