{"id":1306,"date":"2023-07-06T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/ueb-blog\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2023-07-05T15:11:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T14:11:49","slug":"ueb-blog-04-07-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/ueb-blog\/2023\/07\/06\/ueb-blog-04-07-23\/","title":{"rendered":"UEB Blog 04.07.23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Shaun Williams, Executive Director Engagement and Advancement<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/07\/UEB-Blog-04-07-23.png\" alt=\"Image of Highfield Campus with text &quot;UEB BLOG 04.07.23&quot;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/07\/UEB-Blog-04-07-23.png 590w, https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/07\/UEB-Blog-04-07-23-300x142.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">UEB this week was devoted entirely to an in-person two-hour training seminar on <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Health and Safety<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. It is an issue that we, and our governing Council, take very seriously indeed, and it features regularly on our meeting agendas, along with a weekly review of the wider University Risk Register.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The seminar was not just a reminder of the regulatory and legislative framework in which we operate, it was also a salutary reminder \u2013 through a number of real life examples \u2013 of how relatively simple failings, or a sequence of seemingly innocuous failings, or a failure of management to ask the right questions and then do something with the answers, can have life-changing consequences, or worse.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We are relatively confident that we have in place a robust and effective approach to health and safety and our management of risk at university and local level, which we discuss regularly in many forums and with our campus trades unions, but we can never be complacent. The seminar also underlined the importance of everyone in our community undertaking our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sotonac.sharepoint.com\/teams\/HealthSafetyRisk\/SitePages\/Training.aspx\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">mandatory health and safety training<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and regular refresher training, and over the coming weeks we will be discussing further how we can ensure full compliance with this training, and how we might use the annual appraisals process to support and encourage a \u201clived\u201d culture of health and safety. <\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Strong and active leadership by all our managers is clearly critical on this issue, to keep our community safe and healthy on our campuses, which is after all our prime responsibility.\u00a0 UEB will continue to return to this issue regularly.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Shaun Williams, Executive Director Engagement and Advancement UEB this week was devoted entirely to an in-person two-hour training seminar on Health and Safety. 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