UCL Safety Standards

Standards are documents, authorised by UCL's Work Health and Safety Committee (WHSC), which describe what is required to ensure compliance, by whom, and guidance and tools on how to achieve it. They provide the link between the global policy statements and how these may be achieved in certain risk areas.

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Asbestos Management Plan Standard (pdf) (available on the Estates website)

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Artificial Optical Radiation Standard

Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Standard

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Legionella Standard

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Lifting Equipment Standard

Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) Standard

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Lone Working Standard

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Pressure Systems Standard - statutory testing

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Risk Assessment Standard

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Personal Protective Equipment within Wet Laboratories Standard

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Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) Standard (download)

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Preparation and Approval of Risk Assessments for Work with Biological Agents and Plants Standard (download)

Further information

> riskNET How-To video for Specialist Risk Assessments for Biological Agents

Contact us

General Safety safety@ucl.ac.uk
Fire Safety fire@ucl.ac.uk
riskNET Tools risknet.help@ucl.ac.uk
Safety Training safetytraining@ucl.ac.uk
Transport of Dangerous Goods dangerousgoods@ucl.ac.uk
Radiation Safety radreporting@ucl.ac.uk
Laser Safety lasersafety@ucl.ac.uk
BioChem Safety biochem@ucl.ac.uk

Further information

UCL Guidance

> UCL Work Health and Safety Committee

Supplementary Guidance

> Plan, Do, Check, Act - An introduction to managing for health and safety (HSE)
> Leadership and management of health and safety in higher education institutions (UCEA)

The Law

> Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
> The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999