Health, Safety and Environment

NTNU is to provide safe, secure and stimulating work for its staff in order to create a work environment that encourages creative, constructive and critical thinking. The work environment is to promote ability, learning, good health and job satisfaction, and avoid work-related illness, injury and environmentally hazardous emissions or deposits.

The objectives for HES measures at NT Faculty are developing systematic and on-going activities that will:

• Prevent injury and damage to equipment
• Safeguard the quality of the physical work environment
• Prevent hazardous and unplanned emissions
• Ensure that safety and environmental considerations are integrated in all work activities
• Document internally and externally that safety and environmental considerations are followed
• Contribute to HES being included and actively used in education
• Document that the relevant laws and regulations are followed
• Create a good psychosocial work environment with collective responsibility for all staff
• Ensure that it is a managerial task to follow up HES guidelines

Plan for HES measures
HES measures at NT Faculty are to be done systematically with respect to the applicable laws and regulations that regulate our activities. This applies to students and staff as well as the external environment. Systematic HES measures are to be implemented by the following means:

• There is to be an annual audit of the HES routines at NT Faculty
• Information about HES measures is to be posted in the faculty's intranet site
• Using risk assessments of the work environment and making HES inspection rounds
• Producing annual activity plans for HES to focus on specific themes
• HES representative position
• The departments are to be active in getting students involved with the applicable HES measures
• The student representatives are to be allowed to present HES issues at the department and faculty level
• All waste material is to be handled in accordance with the regulations to secure the internal and external environment
• Cooperation with the central HES Department for assistance from work-hygiene specialists, health personnel, physiotherapists, following up those on leaves of absence due to illness etc.