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

UW Special Constable Service External 519-888-4911
Internal 22222

Health Services

Monday, Thursday & Friday
8:30AM - 4:30PM
Tuesday & Wednesday
8:30AM - 7:30PM
External

519-888-4096

hsforms@uwaterloo.ca

Internal 84096
Spill Control External 519-888-4911
Internal 22222
Ontario Poison Centre External 1-800-268-9017
Plant Operations 33793
Director of Safety - Kate Windsor 35814

Safety office

33587

MSE Health and Safety Coordinator - Andrea Christian CPH 4301

andrea.christian@uwaterloo.ca

Administrative Officer - Louise Green CPH 4301B lgreen@uwaterloo.ca
Department Chair - Mark Hancock CPH 4301C mark.hancock@uwaterloo.ca

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First Aid Contacts
Contact Email
Andrea Christian andrea.christian@uwaterloo.ca
Brenna Costa b2costa@uwaterloo.ca
Jill Miller je2miller@uwaterloo.ca
Laboratory Listing and Contacts
Laboratory  Room Supervisor/contact
Critical Machine Learning Lab CPH 3641/3643 Sirisha Rambhatla
Waterloo Optimization Lab - WatOpt CPH 3609/3612 Samir Elhedhli / Fatma Gzara
Uncertainty Management Lab CPH 4366 Frank Safayeni / Rob Duimering
Natural Language Processing Lab CPH 4365 Olga Vechtomova
Information Retrieval Lab CPH 4363 Mark Smucker
Data Science Lab CPH 4359 Lukasz Golab
WatMIMS Lab CPH 4341 Jim Bookbinder

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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