Seminars on occupational health and safety and environmental protection

Responsibility for ensuring safety at work is shared among all University staff. To give them the right tools to do so, the Occupational Safety and Environmental Protection Unit organizes seminars in partnership with Unit 02.2—Occupational Safety and Environmental Protection at the University of Cologne that tackle topical issues relating to occupational safety and environmental protection. They explore legal, technical and procedural developments and present pragmatic solutions in order to raise awareness of known or hidden problems.

 Note that the seminars advertised here are no substitute for the briefings that managers are expected to give regularly and before new staff start work.

Target group

Professors, academic and non-academic staff, students, safety officers (especially). The seminars marked with an asterisk (*) are also open to participants from the University of Cologne and Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.

The process

If you are a manager, you determine training needs within your area of responsibility and make sure that the relevant members of your university can attend the necessary training.

If you are an employee, you take part in the necessary training and advanced training courses in occupational health and safety and environmental protection.

General seminars

The University of Bonn wants all of its employees to be able to work safely, without accidents and with their health protected. This seminar will therefore teach you the basics of occupational safety, environmental protection and fire safety and will give you an insight into what our medical officer does.

Compulsory for all University of Bonn staff.

Dates and times:

This session serves as specialist training for safety officers from the relevant teams and advanced training for managers and staff with office duties.

Themen:

  • Safety officers—what aims, roles and responsibilities do they have?
  • Occupational safety partners—who can provide support with occupational health and safety?
  • Workplace hazards and dangers—what are the typical risks in a workplace?
  • The pillars of occupational safety—what are the key pillars of occupational safety, and how are they to be ensured?
  • Measures—what kinds of measures are there, and how can they be put in place?

Dates and times:

Participants are given the knowledge they need to help managers to ensure safety at work and prevent accidents. This session is also recommended to safety officers who have been in the role for many years as the law changes all the time.

A seminar organized by Unfallkasse NRW

Dates and times:

  • Wednesday, March 6, 9 am to 4 pm, Düsseldorf
  • Wednesday, October 23, 9 am to 4 pm, Düsseldorf
  • Link
  • E-Learning
  • A seminar can also be put on in Bonn on request if enough people sign up.


 

This seminar is run at the University of Bonn by Unfallkasse NRW and provides information on changes and new developments affecting:

  • Risk assessments, operating instructions and briefings on testing work equipment
  • Handling work equipment safely
  • Handling hazardous substances safely, e.g. in industrial engineering and/or workshops
  • Specific content by arrangement
  • Inquiry

Maternity protection is an issue that all teams need to bear in mind, whether or not they contain any pregnant or breastfeeding mothers, and that concerns staff and students alike.

In this seminar, we want to explain the maternity protection process to managers and degree program managers in more detail, focusing particularly on the risk assessment and potential measures to take.

Dates and times on request

  • Length: around three hours
  • In person (can be delivered online)
  • Link

This seminar covers the basic structures in occupational safety and environmental protection and is adapted to suit the specific needs of the department or institute involved.

Dates and times on request:

  • to be coordinated with the department/institute/team
  • Two to three hours depending on agreed content
  • In person
  • Link

Lifting and carrying objects at work is often a source of excess strain or even pain. However, incorrect posture can be avoided by shining a light on the typical loads encountered in our day-to-day work.

Dates and times on request:

  • to be coordinated with the department/institute/team
  • Time: 9 am to 4 pm
  • In person
  • Link

Occupational health and safety is a management task. In order for you and your employees to work safely, you need to know your rights and obligations. This seminar supports you in knowing what you need to do and helps you get started.

Dates and times: (Link zur Seminarausschreibung wird bis Ende Mai ergänzt)

  • Donnerstag, 07. Juni 2024, 10:00 - 12:00, Zoom
  • Dienstag, 10. September 2024, 14:00 - 16:00, Zoom
  • Donnerstag, 12. Dezember 2024, 15:00 - 17:00, Zoom

We offer you regular video consultations all about computer workstations and ergonomics.

Dates and times:

  • Every second Thursday of the month, 11 am to 12 pm
  • Consultations before then can be requested by email.

The Waiting Room feature in Zoom will be activated as soon as the host starts the session. If you have to wait there, it means that all colleagues are currently talking to someone else and will be able to help you as soon as they have finished.

Zoom link

We offer you regular video consultations all about business and study trips.

Dates and times:

  • Every first Thursday of the month, 11 am to 12 pm
  • Consultations before then can be requested by email 

The Waiting Room feature in Zoom will be activated as soon as the host starts the session. If you have to wait there, it means that all colleagues are currently talking to someone else and will be able to help you as soon as they have finished.

Zoom link

Laboratories

This session serves as specialist training for safety officers from the relevant teams and advanced training for laboratory heads and laboratory staff.

Dates and times:

This session serves as specialist training for safety officers from the relevant teams and advanced training for laboratory heads and biological laboratory staff.

Dates and times:

Participation in these courses is required by law (under §28 paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Genetic Engineering Safety Ordinance).

The introductory course is compulsory for future project managers working in genetic engineering facilities.

Project managers working in genetic engineering facilities and biosafety officers must complete the refresher course every five years.

Link

This seminar teaches the basics of occupational safety and safe working in a laboratory environment, including handling hazardous substances.

Dates and times:

  • Held at the start of the apprenticeship year
  • 9 am to 4 pm
  • In person
  • Sign up via your training supervisor
  • Link

This session teaches the basics of occupational safety and safe working in a laboratory environment, including handling hazardous substances and fire safety.

Dates and times:

  • Held at the start of each semester (April/May and October)
  • Times to be agreed
  • Length: around two hours
  • Held at the department/institute
  • Link
  • Organization and registration handled by the research team

This session provides a grounding for staff working in relevant areas, teaching them what they need to know about handling hazardous substances so that they will be able to act accordingly to avoid critical situations.

Dates and times:

  • Date on request (if six or more people sign up)
  • Length: around two hours
  • Online or in person
  • Link

This session provides a grounding for staff working in relevant areas, teaching them what they need to know about working with hydrofluoric acid and inorganic fluorides so that they will be able to act accordingly to avoid critical situations.

Dates and times:

  • Date on request (if four or more people sign up)
  • Length: around one hour
  • Online or in person
  • Link

This session explains how to write work instructions for hazardous materials and work equipment/procedures.

Dates and times:

  • Date on request (if six or more people sign up)
  • Length: around two hours
  • In person (can be delivered online)
  • Link

Currently being developed

This session provides a grounding for staff working in relevant areas, teaching them what they need to know about handling gases so that they will be able to act accordingly to avoid critical situations.

  • Date on request (if six or more people sign up)
  • Length: around two hours
  • Online or in person
  • Link

We offer you regular video consultations all about personal protective equipment (PPE).

Dates and times:

  • Every third Thursday of the month, 11 am to 12 pm
  • Consultations before then can be requested by email.

The Waiting Room feature in Zoom will be activated as soon as the host starts the session. If you have to wait there, it means that all colleagues are currently talking to someone else and will be able to help you as soon as they have finished.

Zoom link

Technical teams, work equipment and personal protective equipment

The session serves as advanced training for workshop heads and staff as well as specialist training for safety officers. It teaches the basics of occupational health and safety as well as the specifics of working in workshops and technical areas (risk-assessing work equipment and writing work instructions). The training also covers hygiene aspects relating to handling biological agents (particularly cooling lubricants).

Dates and times:

A seminar organized by Unfallkasse NRW

Target groups: heads of wood workshops; potentially also safety officers and staff

Dates and times:

Ladders and steps are examples of work equipment that has to be checked regularly by someone who meets certain criteria. A person deemed “competent” to carry out such a check will have the knowledge required to check and test work equipment by virtue of their vocational training, their professional experience and their recent activities at work. This seminar will teach you this knowledge, which will be confirmed in writing by your manager.

Dates and times:

  • Date on request (if eight or more people sign up)
  • Time: 9 am to 4 pm
  • In person
  • Link

Participation in annual respiratory protection is required by law. Instead of our seminar, you may attend an equivalent one organized by another provider.

The seminar teaches the specifics of respiratory protection and can be followed by a module on pesticides. Dates and times have yet to be confirmed.

Dates and times:

Working with power saws is classed as a dangerous activity, and anyone doing so must have the right skills and temperament in order to ensure safe, accident-free working.

Only suitably trained staff may use a power saw at the University of Bonn. This seminar gives you the opportunity to obtain the “Module A” training certificate that you need.

  • Modul A: Januar 18-19, 2024,9 am to 4 pm, University Sports (Nachtigallenweg 86, 53127 Bonn-Venusberg)
  • Date on request (if three or more people sign up)
  • Length: two days
  • In person
  • Link

This seminar provides a refresher on the most important safety regulations and rules of conduct for handling industrial trucks (forklifts, walk-behind pallet trucks, etc.) for staff who already hold a forklift license.

Date and time:

  • Date on request (for whole teams)
  • Time: two to three hours
  • In person
  • Link

Participation in a seminar of this kind is required by law. Instead of our seminar, you may attend an equivalent one organized by another provider.

It provides a refresher on the specific knowledge and the electrotechnical and legal basics of testing work.

Dates and times:

  • Dates arranged by the Occupational Safety and Environmental Protection Unit
  • every three years
  • Time: 9 am to 4 pm
  • In person
  • Link

Currently being developed

Currently being developed

See “Laboratories”

See “Laboratories”

Specific areas

Currently being developed

This seminar gives managers and safety officers working in museums, archives and libraries an overview of the following topics:

  • Organization of health and safety

  • Hazards and loads encountered in museums, archives and libraries

  • Identifying and taking suitable action to ensure health and safety

A seminar organized by Unfallkasse NRW

NRW Dates and times:

A broken leg from falling into a trench, constant back pain due to many years of heavy lifting and carrying, or sunstroke from working for hours in the blazing sun—all of these can cause you pain and personal suffering, making you temporarily or permanently unable to work. To prevent this from happening, the various aspects of occupational health and safety will need to be considered right from when a dig is being planned.

A seminar organized by Unfallkasse NRW

Dates and times:

This seminar teaches managers and staff in all areas how to use fire extinguishers safely to fight incipient fires without putting themselves in danger and to ensure that employees can leave (escape from) buildings by themselves.

Attendance by at least 5 percent of the workforce will usually suffice.

The session lasts around one and a half hours.

Please notify the Fire Safety Unit if required.

These training sessions are designed for drivers transporting dangerous goods and officers or other responsible personnel within the meaning of dangerous goods regulations. They explain how to ensure that dangerous goods are transported correctly. The content of the training course will be adapted to suit the substances or materials being transported (e.g. nitrogen, chemical waste, chemicals, organic material).

Dates and times:

  • Date on request

  • Length: around two hours

  • In person (can be delivered digitally)

Topics:

  • Duties and responsibilities in accordance with the Ordinance on the Appointment of Dangerous Goods Officers

  • Transporting the goods, packaging documentation, labeling

  • Restrictions on volumes and quantities

Please send all inquiries to the Waste Management and Hazardous Materials Unit.

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