Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW)
The University's Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Team provides support to the University community on all safety, injury management and wellbeing activities.
The University has prepared a Coronavirus FAQ for staff and students. This page will be updated as the situation changes.
Flu vaccination program
The vaccination program for continuing, fixed-term and casual staff will end on 31 July 2020.
If you attend your own pharmacy/GP before COB 31 July 2020, you have an option to seek reimbursement through the University’s finance system.
Health and wellbeing during COVID-19
Our COVID-19 website provides you with a toolkit of tips, activities and opportunities relating to healthy minds, healthy bodies, healthy families and healthy finances.
HSW intranet
Login to the HSW intranet to access content restricted to University of Adelaide staff including information on Chemwatch, Injury management, HSR, FTCO and the Community of Practice portals.
Report a safety issue
Report a safety issue with the University of Adelaide's online reporting system, UniSafe.
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- Campus travel
- Cancer Council
- Chemical safety management
- Chemical safety management FAQs
- Chemical waste
- Chemwatch
- Children in the workplace
- Children in the workplace FAQs
- Codes of Practice
- Community of practice (CoP) meetings
- Community of practice (CoP) membership list
- Confined spaces
- Confined spaces FAQs
- Contractor safety management
- Corrective actions
- Cryogenic substances
- Cyanide use
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- Electrical safety management
- Electrical safety management FAQs
- Electrical testing
- Emergency management
- Emergency safety shower and eyewash testing
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Employee assistance program FAQs
- Ergonomics
- Ergonomics guideline and assessment
- Event safety management FAQs
- Events safety management
- External HSW resources
- External training courses
- Eye protection FAQs
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- Hand protection
- Hazard management FAQs
- Hazardous manual tasks FAQs
- Head and face protection
- Health alerts
- Health and safety representative (HSR) portal
- Health and safety representatives (HSRs)
- Health and wellbeing during COVID-19
- Healthy bodies
- Healthy bodies during COVID-19
- Healthy culture
- Healthy families during COVID-19
- Healthy finances during COVID-19
- Healthy minds
- Healthy minds during COVID-19
- Healthy places
- Hearing protection
- Hot work FAQs
- HSW action planning
- HSW advice
- HSW advice
- HSW collaboration with other organisations (including co-location)
- HSW committees
- HSW committees
- HSW community of practice (CoP)
- HSW consultation
- HSW Contact Change Form
- HSW contacts
- HSW FAQs
- HSW framework
- HSW frequently asked questions (FAQs)
- HSW information, instruction and training FAQs
- HSW legislation
- HSW operations manual
- HSW planning
- HSW policy
- HSW staff intranet
- HSW systems management
- HSW training plan
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- Radiation EPA South Australia
- Radiation safety management FAQs
- Radiation worker registration form
- Rehabilitation for non-work related injuries and illness
- Report a safety issue in UniSafe
- Reproductive toxicity FAQs
- Research using laboratory animals FAQs
- Respiratory protection
- Return to Work (WorkCover SA) - Information for Staff and Supervisors
- Risk Assessment
- RTWSA self insurance documentation and information
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- Safety when working from home FAQs
- Schedule of programmable events
- Schedule of programmable events (SPE)
- Self insurance documentation and information
- Smoke-free University
- Smoke-free University FAQs
- Student placements
- Student placements FAQs
- Supervisor toolkit
- Support for staff in dealing with inappropriate student behaviour
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- Wellbeing framework
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- Working with animals FAQs
- Working with human research subjects and patients FAQs
- Workplace monitoring
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Fair treatment contact officers (FTCOs)
FTCOs are a confidential contact point for advice about bullying, sexual harassment or discrimination.
HSW news
09 Jul The migration of the HSW website to Drupal caused many links to break within pages and documents. The HSW team is progressively going through these and uploading them to the website once fixed. 06 Jul
Handbook chapter approval: Managing HSW in the work environment
The revised HSW Handbook Chapter “Managing HSW in the work environment (including infrastructure and facilities)” has now been posted on the HSW website. 06 Jul
New safety when working from home FAQs
New frequently asked questions have been developed to provide information and guidance on safety when working from home. 06 Jul
Resilence calendar - Jump back July 2020
We can't control what happens to us, but we can choose how we respond. 26 Jun The Travel Safety FAQs have been updated to reflect the current University of Adelaide's travel authorisation process to interstate, South Australian and international destinations. 19 Jun The University has an amended position on international travel as a direct response to the evolving global situation and takes into account the latest advice from Government and health authorities.