UW Joint Health and Safety Committee
Described in Policy 34 in the Waterloo policies and procedure guidelines
Advisory committee to the dean of engineering on safety
This committee has two representatives from each department – usually one faculty and one staff member.
The current MSci department representative is Zivojin Pantic.
Department of Management Science and Engineering safety committee
The membership consists of:
- Department chair or designate
- Laboratory technician
- Administrative officer
- Department health and safety coordinator
- Faculty member
This committee meets at least twice a year to perform the following duties:
- Review and update the safety manual.
- Review any incident reports.
- Emergency planning.
- Ensure that laboratory areas are inspected regularly and that any safety infringements found are corrected promptly.
- Ensure that all persons using laboratory facilities have acknowledged (by signature) that they will comply with the regulations pertaining to the laboratory that they are working in.