Requirements for UiO
Organisation of the work
The University Director is responsible for:
- The HSE work at UiO is organised in an appropriate way with sufficient resources. This means that:
- UiO has a working environment committee (WEC) and a safety organisation as described in the policy for the safety organisation.
- A network has been established for local HSE coordinators
- UiO has a fire protection organisation as described in the fire protection policy.
- UiO has a HSE system that ensures systematic HSE work that takes attends to UiO's challenges.
- UiO is associated with an approved occupational health service (OHS), with expertise and capacity to meet UiO's needs.
- UiO has a system to document completed HSE training
- UiO has a system for handling non-conformance
Planning
The University Director is responsible for ensuring that the University of Oslo:
- Has targets for the HSE work, plans to achieve these targets and that the work is followed up.
- In collaboration with OHS, a plan for the use of OHS is drawn up annually
- Has an annual plan for carrying out HSE audits
Training
The University Director is responsible for ensuring that HSE training is carried out as described in the HSE training policy.
Risk management
The University Director is responsible for ensuring that HSE work at UiO is risk-based and that preventive work is carried out.
Central activities
The University Director is responsible for ensuring the following activities in the systematic HSE work is carried out annually:
- Compliance assessment
- Management's review
Requirements for faculties, museums, the university library and LOS
Organisation of the work
The unit's senior manager is responsible for ensuring that the HSE work at the unit is organised in an appropriate manner and that the HSE system is complied with.
The unit's senior manager must appoint a HSE coordinator, who shall have the following functions:
- Advisor to the management in HSE professional matters
- Initiator of the systematic HSE work, e.g.:
- Follow-up of the unit's HSE procedures and HSE non-conformance processing
- LWEC
- Follow-up and implementation of preventive activities and tasks decided after HSE non-conformance, risk analyses, working environment investigations and in the unit's HSE programme
- Operation of the unit's substances database
- Safety inspections
- HSE competence in the unit
- The HSE coordinator must participate in the network for HSE coordinators managed by the Unit for HSE and emergency preparedness.
The unit's senior management must ensure that the safety representatives participate in matters that affect the working environment.
Planning
The unit's senior manager must:
- Consider setting specific HSE targets in addition to UiO's HSE targets
- Establish an action plan that supports the HSE objectives
Goals and action plans must be processed and foll