Department health and safety manual

This manual is provided to all “members” of the Management Science and Engineering Department. “Members” include all MSE faculty, staff, students (undergraduate and graduate), postdoctoral scholars, research personnel, work term placements, volunteers, and visitors (paid or unpaid).

The information in this manual will include health and safety policies and procedures for safe practices in research and teaching labs, classrooms, and general office environment.
It is expected that all “members” read and understand the information in this document with regard to laboratory safety and emergency procedures.

All members are required to read this manual in its entirety and sign the safety manual acknowledgement form (PDF) acknowledging that they understand these regulations and will comply with them.

This manual is also available to download in PDF format:


REPORTING INCIDENTS & HAZARDS

INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY PLANNING

INFORMATION ON FIRE SAFETY

INFORMATION ON FIRST AID

INFORMATION ON WSIB & RETURN TO WORK

HAZARDOUS MATERIAL SPILLS

CALLING FOR HELP


Below you will find: Emergency Contact Information | First Aid Contacts | Laboratory Listings


Emergency Contact Information
Emergency Contact Phone/Extension/Email
Fire / Ambulance / Police 911
Special Constable Service External 519 888 4911
Internal Ext. 22222
Spil Control External 519 888 4911
Internal Ext. 22222 
Health Services and First Aid 519 888 4096
Poisoning / overdose information

1 800 268 9017 

Plant operations (24h) Ext. 33793

Director of Safety

Andrew Scheifele COM 116A

Ext. 36359

Safety office

Ext. 33587

MSE H&S Coordinator

Zivojin Pantic CPH 4318

zpantic@uwaterloo.ca 

Administrative Officer 

Emilie Mechler CPH 4301B

emilie.mechler@uwaterloo.ca

Department Chair

Mark Hancock CPH 4301C

mark.hancock@uwaterloo.ca 

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First Aid Contacts
Contact Role(s) Email
Emilie Mechler First Aider, Fire Warden emilie.mechler@uwaterloo.ca
Jill Miller First Aider, Fire Warden je2miller@uwaterloo.ca
Umair Shah First Aider umair.shah@uwaterloo.ca
Heidi Janssen Fire Warden heidi@uwaterloo.ca
Shelley Vossen Fire Warden svossen@uwaterloo.ca
Janine Graham First Aider, Fire Warden janine.graham@uwaterloo.ca
Rosalind Klein Fire Warden R4klein@uwaterloo.ca
Laboratory Listing and Contacts
Laboratory  Room Supervisor/contact
WANOPT Waterloo Optimization Lab CPH 3609

Fatma Gzara  

fgzara@uwaterloo.ca 

Samir Elhedhli 

elhedhli@uwaterloo.ca

Uncertainty Management Lab CPH 4366

Frank Safayeni 

fsafayen@uwaterloo.ca 

Rob Duimering

rduimeri@uwaterloo.ca

Natural Language Processing Lab CPH 4365

Olga Vechtomova 

ovechtom@uwaterloo.ca

Information Retrieval Lab CPH 4363

Mark Smucker 

msmucker@uwaterloo.ca 

Data Science Lab CPH 4359

Lukasz Golab 

lgolab@uwaterloo.ca 

WatMIMS Lab CPH 4341

Jim Bookbinder 

jbookbinder@uwaterloo.ca 

Critical ML Lab

CPH 3641 

CPH 3643

Sirisha Rambhatla 

sirisha.rambhatla@uwaterloo.ca 

Laboratory supervisors/contacts are responsible for their labs and to ensure that all safety guidelines are being followed by anyone they have given permission to have access to their labs.

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