I am a DSO

I am a DSO: How can I benefit from better safety management?

You have told us that you want:​

• to be confident that all hazards in the department have been identified and assessed​

• a way to prioritise and focus your efforts for safety improvement. You can’t fix everything at once and by tying to, you feel overworked or stressed​

• guidance to provide clearer instructions and procedures on safe work, research and study for the people in your department​

• clear definition of DSO and other safety role responsibilities when you start. You don’t want to have to re-invent the wheel​

• quick and easy access to relevant university safety information and tools all in one place​

• and the ability to share these with your department without having to continually update links

We aim to give you:​

• a broad list of defined hazards and activities against which you can easily identify in your department​

• a departmental risk profile to focus your safety improvement, formed from a simple system to describe and rate the residual risk for each relevant hazard and activity​

• personal contacts in the safety office to help you through the setup and face-to-face support during and after the roll out​

• a platform to produce and communicate safety instructions and procedures to your department. This will be automatically customised from your safety risk profile and examples of content will be provided​

• a single university Safety Hub to search for safety policy, procedure, guidance and tools from all university divisions.​