Safety, Health, and Wellbeing at Work

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Taking a top-down approach to health, safety and wellbeing is vital to creating a safety-conscious culture and keeping workplaces safe for staff, students and visitors. At the University, the Safety, Health, and Wellbeing at Work Office (SHWO) aims to encourage this culture where everyone is aware of their individual health, safety and wellbeing responsibilities.

On our webpages you’ll find the University’s health and safety policy, and information, support and guidance on a range of health, safety and wellbeing topics.

Role of the Safety, Health and Wellbeing at Work Office

SHWO provides an impartial and independent institutional-wide advisory and assurance service on all aspects of workplace health, safety and wellbeing within the University. Our function is:

• to set the policy and standards.
• to provide competent subject-matter advice to the Vice Chancellor’s office and all stakeholders.
• to provide assurance, by monitoring health and safety performance across the organisation and reporting to the University’s Executive Board members.
• to assess the need for intervention including escalation through management.
• to provide Workplace Health and Safety training to empower stakeholders with the skills to manage health, safety and wellbeing.

The SHWO team at the University comprises highly skilled individuals with a wide-ranging area of expertise in the field of health, safety and wellbeing including specialist risks such as biological safety, chemical safety, fire safety, occupational health and radiation and laser safety. 

Please direct all general Health, Safety and Fire enquiries to shwo-enquiries@york.ac.uk

Please direct all Occupational Health queries to occupational-health@york.ac.uk