UoB has great awareness of the risk of violence and intimidation, and leaders at the university are responsible for ensuring that the working environment is fully in accordance with the  Guidelines for dealing with violence and threats. As part of this work, the Section for HSE and BHT offers the introduction course “Managing violence and threats”.

Time: Friday 8 December at. 09:00–12:00.
Location: C.G. Sundt’s house, meeting room A / B, Muséplassen 1.
Target audience: Leaders of all levels, as well as HSE delegates.

Goals:

• Increased understanding of what affects our safety.
• Knowledge of how violence and threats can be prevented.
• Be better able to handle potential violence and threat situations.
• How to mitigate potential damage and learn from our experiences.

Application deadline: Friday 24 November 2017.

Registration. (Link in Norwegian.)

The course has limited number of places. Confirmed registration will be sent to the participants.

More information here. (Link in Norwegian.)

The HR-department would like to remind you all of the short programme for new leaders. The programme is relevant for leaders employed within the last 12 months and with Human resources responsibility.

More info here. (Link only in Norwegian.)

The new law on state employees came into force on 1 July and replaces the Old Civil Service Act (tjenestemannsloven). One of the changes is that we no longer can announce vacancies internally without a separate legal basis.

The positions posted in the internal market during this summer must therefore be converted to external announcements, and in future, all positions have to be announced externally.

Julie

Dear all,

The hospital is performing maintenance on the ventilation system, hence the ventilation will be turned off at 17:00 on Thursday 24 August, in both the A-block (north) and B-block of the Laboratory Building. The work is expected to be completed at 20:00.

Any laboratory work dependent on ventilation cannot be performed during this period.

Questions can be directed to engineer Diana Espelid at HUS.

Best regards Julie

Since we are now entering a period of absence from work and potentially warm weather, the backup freezer must be cleaned and emptied before going on holiday.

There are currently several (forgotten) samples in the freezer that are not on the list of content. We request that everyone take responsibility for a check of samples that have been left behind, and remind you that the use of the freezer must be agreed with Julie Stavnes.

The arrangements in the internal labor market have been effective since 1 September 2016. According to the agreement with the labor unions, the scheme will now be evaluated to assess which measures will be continued. The survey contains questions related to internal information, simplified affiliation processes, and utilization of hospitalization schemes.

The survey can be found here. (Link in Norwegian.)

It takes about 10 minutes.

Deadline: 31 May.

Hazard pictograms in CLP

From 1 June 2017, all chemicals purchased must be labeled according to CLP (Classification, Labeling and Packaging). Older chemicals at UoB should also be labeled according to these regulations. This implies that new labels must be put on older packaging.

Read more about this here. (Link in Norwegian.)

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The HSE section has prepared a small e-learning course for laboratory staff. The course will be an alternative to the course “Laboratory Course for New Employees”, which we arrange annually, and is part of an e-learning project for employees.

The e-learning course is available to anyone who wishes to take the course, whether newly employed, employed for a long time or a student.

The course is now open for registration. There is no deadline for when the course must be completed.

Information and registration (link in Norwegian)

The Occupational Health Service offers health services to employees at UoB as well as to certain student groups. They offer many services, from health checks and vaccinations, to dialogue and consultation when needed. More information and contact details can be found here:

http://www.uib.no/en/hms-portalen/79415/health-services

ARK (Working Environment and Working Climate Surveys) will be introduced at MOF in 2017. Preparations are planned before the summer, and implementation of the survey is scheduled in autumn 2017. More information about ARK is available here.

On 19 April starts this year’s Bike to Work-campaign. The aim is to get in better shape, but Bike to work is also a social initiative for employees. This year, the University of Bergen awards great prizes to both teams and individual participating employees. Details about these prizes are provided later. In addition, there are opportunities to win prizes in the national competition.

For more information: see here. (Link in Norwegian.)

In the Department council meeting Wednesday 22 February 2017 was K2’s HSE action plan adopted.

You can find the HSE action plan under the Safety tab in K2news, or you can click here.