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Health and Safety Updates

Mandatory Training

All staff must complete the mandatory Health and Safety e-learning modules currently available on Learn Upon. There are two modules, Health and Safety Essentials and Fire Awareness.

Welcome to a New Member of the Team

Following a restructure in the Human Resources Division, we welcomed Wendy Carey, Staff Wellbeing Manager to the Health and Safety team this month. 

Health and Safety FAQs

We have created a document listing the most frequently asked questions that come into the Health & Safety inbox.  If you have a health and safety query please check here as you may find the answer.

Viva Engage

To hear all the latest news and updates from the Health and Safety team, visit out Viva Engage page here.

Health and Safety Documents and Support

About Health and Safety at Sussex

This is a central health and safety resource for the University to support the varied aspects of our work including research and teaching.

The Health and Safety team’s vision is to continually improve safety compliance and promote health and safety at the University of Sussex as a safe and healthy place to work, study, visit and enjoy.

The Health and Safety team values are to:

• promote a proportionate response to risk
• offer ‘reasonably practicable’ and pragmatic solutions to queries, issues, incidents and concerns
• collaborate and consult with others and to consider the diverse needs of staff, students and others

Full details of the service the Health and Safety team provides is available here.  

These webpages are updated by the Health and Safety team at the University of Sussex.

Katie Bennett, Head of Health and Safety