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Responsibilities

Head of Department

Heads of Department (HoD) is ultimately responsible for the management of biological/clinical waste generated in the department until its consigned to the contractor.  

The HoD is responsible for ensuring that:

  • sufficient resources are made available to control and manage waste in the department
  • the deparment complies with the requirements of the University Waste Policy and Management Procedure

Health & Safety Advisor

The H&S Advisor is responsible for:

  • assisting with the preparation of local departmental waste disposal procedures
  • checking compliance with university and departmental waste disposal practices and procedures as part of general and specific departmental safety inspections/audits

Supervisors / Group Leaders / Managers

Supervisors / Group Leaders / Managers are responsible for:

  • ensuring that all their workers receive local instruction and training on the appropriate waste disposal routes for different wastes produced by their work activities
  • day-to-day supervision of operating procedures relating to laboratory waste arising in a specific laboratory and compliance with this policy

Individual Workers (includes Staff and Students)

Individual workers are responsible for:

  • appropriate segregation, packaging, labelling and disposal of different waste materials via the correct waste stream
  • reporting any incidents, breaches of and non-conformance with the departmental waste policy to their line manager or the Departmental H&S Advisor