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Host:
Guest:
Shared workplace:
Entire building
Responsibilities
Heads of Departments are responsible for the safe management of work within their
departments and should ensure that they have established and maintain formal
arrangements for co-operation with other departments or organisations. This means
both ensuring that there are adequate arrangements in place to address the safety of
guest employees working in the department, as well as the safety of their staff who
work in other host departments or in premises controlled by another employer.
Heads of Department cannot legally completely devolve or delegate responsibility for
the health and safety of their staff to a third party but it may be possible to reach
agreements with other employers to share, or take on, certain responsibilities for
health and safety of their employees.
Documentation
Arrangements detailing the agreed procedures for managing health and safety in a
shared workplace should be documented. Although there may be a commercial
contract in place eg where the University pays for services or facilities provided by
another employer, it is recommended that the detail of health and safety
arrangements is covered separately, although there may be reference in the contract
in general terms.
For situations where University staff are working in other University Departments,
documentation may be as simple as a short paragraph in the written arrangements
for safe working under the heading co-operation between organisations, stating that
all visiting workers will follow the Departments local rules for safe working, with
visitors signing to that effect. Where different employers are involved, this should be
supplemented with more formal documentation setting out the relationship between
the different employers and their respective roles and responsibilities a suggested
format and an indication of topics to be covered is given in the checklist at the end of
this guidance.
Where there is no controlling employer, a joint health and safety policy should be
prepared and agreed, and a joint local health and safety code of practice prepared
for use by all those working in the shared area, using the headings in the suggested
format as guidance.
The document should be signed off by the Head of the University Department
involved and the relevant line manager(s) of the other employer(s).
May 2010
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1. Building/workplace services
Identify who will be responsible for providing and maintaining the following services within the building or specific
shared workplace
1.1.
1.2.
Host
Host
1.3.
Security
Host
1.4.
Host
1.5.
Host
1.6.
Fire precautions
Host
1.7.
Further information
Use this space to provide further information/detail eg contact details of service providers or
Estates/Facilities Management
2.2.
Host
Host
2.3.
Host
2.4.
Host
2.5.
Host
2.6.
2.7.
Host
Host
Host
2.8.
Further information
Use this space to provide further information/detail eg location of risk assessments
3. Compliance issues
Identify who will be responsible for meeting specific statutory requirements
3.1.
3.2.
Radiation licensing
Host
Host
3.3.
Host
3.4.
Asbestos Register
Host
Host
3.6.
Host
3.5.
3.7.
Further information
Use this space to provide further information/detail
4.2.
Describe procedures for dealing with emergencies (other than fire), eg loss of power to safety
critical equipment, major spillage of a hazardous chemical
4.3.
Organisation
Contact details
Role