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Safety Induction Program
Semester 2, 2008

Architecture and Building based courses

SRA010 – Safety Induction Program (S, X)

SRA010 – Safety Induction Program is compulsory for all students undertaking S342 Bachelor of Design (Architecture), S346 Bachelor of Construction Management, D364 Bachelor of Design (Architecture)/Bachelor of Construction Management, D365 Bachelor of Construction Management/Bachelor of Facilities Management, S700 Master of Architecture, S701 Master of Architecture (Design) and any new students.

We welcome you to our School and hope you enjoy your academic training during your degree course.

The School is obliged to make you fully aware of the Occupational Health and Safety issues related to the different aspects of your course.

As part of this awareness you are obliged:

  1. To attend a Safety Induction Seminar.  The seminar includes a discussion on OH&S responsibilities of staff and students, emergency procedures and evacuation, introduction to staff who assist with first aid and emergency evacuation and a short video on aspects of laboratory or workshop safety.  (see below for seminar times)
  2. After you have attended the Safety Induction Seminar you are required to complete an online Safety Test.   At the completion of the seminar you will be given details of how to access the online test. You must have completed the online test before week four of semester one.

PLEASE NOTE: it is mandatory for all students involved in first year units that have a practical structures laboratory or design component to complete this unit.  Further attendance in all practical classes will be restricted unless students have successfully completed the online Safety Test.  Results for all units requiring the completion of SRA010 as a co-requisite will not be released until the Safety Test is passed.

Seminar Times

Seminar Waterfront campus

Date   Time Location
Monday 21st July 2008 Introduction and sign up 9:30 – 10:00 am D2.212
Monday 21st July 2008 Induction session 10.00 – 11.00 am D1.224
Monday 21st July 2008 Induction session (repeat) 2.00 – 3.00pm D1.224

For further information please contact John Stabb 52278339 stabb@deakin.edu.au or Des Walters (Geelong campus) 52278357 dewalt@deakin.edu.au

 

Science, Engineering and Information Technology based courses

We welcome you to our Faculty and hope you enjoy your academic training during your degree course.

The Faculty is obliged to make you fully aware of the Occupational Health and Safety issues related to the different aspects of your course.

As part of this awareness you are obliged:

  1. To attend a Safety Induction Seminar.  The seminar includes a discussion on OH&S responsibilities of staff and students, emergency procedures and evacuation, introduction to staff who assist with first aid and emergency evacuation and a short video on aspects of laboratory or workshop safety (see below for seminar times).
  2. As soon as possible after you have attended the Safety Induction Seminar you are required to complete an online Safety Test.   At the completion of the seminar you will be given details of how to access the online test.

PLEASE NOTE: it is mandatory for all students involved in Science and Technology units that have a practical component to complete a safety unit.  Please ensure you are enrolled into the one (1) or more of the safety unit listed below, depending on the units that you are enrolled in. Further attendance in all practical classes will be restricted unless students have successfully completed the online Safety Test.  Results for all units requiring the completion of a Safety Induction Program as a co-requisite will not be released until the relative Safety Test is passed.

The three Faculty of Science and Technology Safety Units are:

SBS010 - Laboratory Safety Induction Program (B, G, W)
SBS010 Laboratory Safety Induction Program is a co-requisite for students enrolled in all SBB, SBC, SBF, SBS and SBW-coded units, except units without a laboratory component. Students enrolled in S399 Bachelor of Environmental Science (Marine Biology) or S382 Bachelor of Environmental Science (Freshwater Biology and Management) also need to complete this unit.

SEE010 - Safety Induction Program (G, X)
SEE010 Safety Induction Program is a co-requisite for students enrolled in SEE103 Electronics, SEM111 Materials 1, SEP101 Physics 1A, SEP199 Engineering Professional Practice 1 or SEB121 Fundamentals of Technology Management and a course rule for all students commencing in 2008 (and thereafter) into the Bachelor of Engineering and its combined courses.  In addition, the unit should be completed in the first semester of the first year that the student commences his/her course.

SIT010 - Safety Induction Program (B, G, X)
SIT010 Safety Induction Program is a co-requisite for students enrolled in SIT201 Systems Analysis and Design or SIT202 Computer Networks or all students enrolled in a Bachelor of Information Technology course (S326, S327, S328, S331, S333, S334 or S339) and a course rule for all students commencing in 2008 (and thereafter) into the Bachelor of Information Technology (all streams) and all of its combined courses.  In addition, the unit should be completed in the first semester of the first year that the student commences his/her course.

Off-campus students are provided with a safety workshop video clip and laboratory safety guide posted on the DSO web site for the unit to be studied before commencing the online test.  At a later stage, when students come onto campus to complete practical components of their course, students will receive additional workshop training.

Off-campus students are required to use the tools described above to help complete the on-line test for the Safety Induction Programs before week for of semester two.

Laboratory Safety Guide: Some hard copies of the Laboratory Safety Guide will be made available at the induction session and the online version is available on the DSO website.

Seminar Times

SIT010 will not be holding sessions for the safety induction during semester 2.  All students are required to refer to the online materials available on DSO i.e. video clip and Laboratory Safety Guide before commencing the online test.

Campus Safety Unit Date Time Room Number
Burwood SBS010 Safety Lecture 1 Monday 21st July 2008 10.00 – 11.00am M206
  SBS010 Safety Lecture 2 (repeat) Monday 21st July 2008 2:00 - 3:00 pm M206
Waurn Ponds SBS010 Safety Lecture 1 Monday 21st July 2008 10.00 – 11.00am ka3.104
  SBS010 Safety Lecture 2 (repeat) Monday 21st July 2008 2:00 - 3:00 pm ka3.104
  SEE010 Safety Lecture 1  Monday 21st July 2008 10.00 – 11.00am kc2.002

For further information in relation to SBS010 please contact Michael Holmes (Burwood campus) 9251 7340 mholmes@deakin.edu.au, Tim Sanders (Waurn Ponds campus) 5227 2992 tts@deakin.edu.au

For information relating to SEE010 or SIT010 please contact Mark Mitchell (Waurn Ponds campus) 5227 1141 mark.mitchell@deakin.edu.au