UC electricians will be starting a project today to replace light fixtures in the tower stairwells of PJH. Some of the work involves drilling new holes so there will be some noise emanating from there. It is not a job the electricians can put off as the work relates to building compliance issues so please apologise to any students who are inconvenienced. The noisy element of the job should only be in short bursts.
Tim O’Sullivan
H & S Induction
Wednesday 16th February at 11.20am will be the first Health and Safety induction for new staff for 2021.
This is in two sections. The first is walk around the PJH building to think about the work environment when the need arises to evacuate the building and, secondly, Health and Safety for completely new staff.
Most staff participated in the refresher walk arounds last year but there may be people who missed out last year or would like another session so please feel free to come along.
Ergonomics
Ergonomic issues are a risk for library staff but with good use of desks, computers, keyboards and mice, the risks are easy to mitigate. The UC online ergonomic assessment tool is a good guide to the basic requirements for being comfortable at your work station.
Earthquake
Monday February 22nd is the 10th Anniversary of our 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Wikipedia has a big page on the Christchurch Earthquakes and there are a lot of books in the library about the event.
Tim O’Sullivan
The boilers are scheduled to be turned off tomorrow for annual maintenance.
This usually causes a spell of cold weather, so you might like to bring an extra jumper.
Tim O’Sullivan
The library is now part of the UC Service One Health and Safety Group which is chaired by Tim O’Sullivan. Dave Lane is the rep from that group to the UC Health and Safety Group. Minutes of meetings are here: https://intranet.canterbury.ac.nz/hr/healthsafety/committee_minutes/index.shtml
The Library Health and Safety Committee is chaired by Sara Roberts (Departmental Safety Officer) and meets quarterly. Minutes are on SharePoint.
Other roles in the library and relevant teams in the library buildings, are listed below (if there are any errors or omissions, please let me know):
| First Aid Certificate holders | Expiry | |
| EPS Library | Kiera Tauro | 19/05/2022 |
| EPS Library | Saharu Shoji | 8/12/2021 |
| EPS Library | Brian McElwaine | 06/10/2022 |
| Puaka James Hight – Rm 203 | Lisa Davies | 9/10/2020 |
| Puaka-James Hight – Rm 522 | Margaret Paterson | 21/01/2021 |
| Puaka-James Hight – Rm 203 | Hugh Joughin | 11/02/2021 |
| Puaka-James Hight – Rm 509 | Romy Forrer | 11/03/2021 |
| Puaka-James Hight – Rm 519 | Sue Thompson | 11/03/2021 |
| Puaka-James Hight – Rm 519 | Nicole Moffat | 10/06/2021 |
| Puaka-James Hight – Rm 522 | Kerry Gilmour | 25/09/2021 |
| Puaka-James Hight – Rm 522 | Kim Hall | 10/09/2020 |
| EPS Library | David Lane | 8/10/2021 |
| Puaka-James Hight – Rm 203 | Susan Lloyd | 8/10/2021 |
| Puaka-James Hight – Rm 203 | Rebecca Fisher | 21/11/2021 |
| Macmillan Brown Library | Swee Hoon Goh | 6/10/2022 |
| Macmillan Brown Library | Caroline Syddall | 5/12/2020 |
| Building and Floor wardens | |||
| Puaka-James Hight Library | Building Warden | O’Sullivan, Tim | |
| Puaka-James Hight Library | Building Warden | Berry, Angela (deputy) | |
| Puaka-James Hight Library | Building warden | Arron, Jack (Assistant) | |
| Puaka-James Hight Library | Level 3 – Academic Skills Centre | Floor warden | Tither. Jacqui |
| Puaka-James Hight Library | Level 5 (Rm 521) | Floor warden | Thompson, Donna |
| Puaka-James Hight Library | Level 5 | Floor warden | Feng, Alan |
| Puaka-James Hight Library | Level 5 | Floor warden | Cain, Jacqui |
| Macmillan Brown Library | Floor warden | Goh, Swee Hoon | |
| Health and Safety Reps | |
| Departmental Safety Officer (Library) | Sara Roberts |
| Library – Macmillan Brown | Swee Hoon Goh |
| Library – EPS | Dave Lane |
| Library – James Hight | Tim O’Sullivan |
| Library – Collections | Vacant |
| Library – Learning, Teaching & Research. | Kathryn Andrews |
| Financial Services | Jo Lilly |
| Student Success – Academic Skills | Jaqui Tither |
Tim O’Sullivan
Metro test will be starting on Wednesday afternoon to test all the electrical equipment in the library. It is likely they will take a couple of days over our four sites.
Everything that connects to the power supply with a three pin plug needs to be tested but not computers or multifunction printers (IT look after those).
Dave Lane is the contact for EPS
Swee Hoon Goh is the contact for MB
Sandra Gover and Megan Dale are the contacts for Henry Field Store
Tim O’Sullivan is the contact for PJH
On the list for testing are laminators, electric staplers, urns, multi-boxes, fridges, fans, heaters, extension cords, self loan machines, etc.
If you have personal items that you plug in at work, the UC protocol also requires that they are tested and tagged before they are brought onto campus. This applies to all items connecting to the power supply with a standard NZ three pin plug or adapter.
Further information about the Test and Tag process is in the UC protocol for electrical equipment.
Tim O’Sullivan
Learning & Development will be running a Fire & Evacuation Training Session on 14 September 2020. All wardens are encouraged to attend if you have not yet done so. If you have attended this course more than 2 years ago, please feel free to enrol again to serve as a refresher.
To enrol in training, log in to PeopleSoft via the Professional Development tile.
Tim O’Sullivan (on behalf of UC H&S)
The change to the library reporting line due to the reorganisation of the Learning Resources portfolio has meant that the Health and Safety Committee arrangements have changed.
The library is now in the new Service 1 group which includes the AVC Maori, UBS, Quake Core, research and innovation, financial Services, ITS and SSAC.
The library Health and Safety reps (Sue Thompson, Swee Hoon Goh, Kathryn Andrews, Dave Lane, Tim O’Sullivan) are all on the Service 1 Committee.
The first meeting of the new group will be on Friday 11th September at 11am.
Minutes are available for all the UC Health and Safety Committees here: https://intranet.canterbury.ac.nz/hr/healthsafety/committee_minutes/index.shtml
Tim O’Sullivan (H&S Rep)
It is that time again!
Metro Test will be back again this month to test all portable electrical appliances in the library. This includes all items such as urns, fans, paper shredders, extension cables and quite a few other items. Last time we had about 250 items over three buildings.
The date is yet to be confirmed.
Not included are computers and multifunction units (i.e. photocopiers). Testing for these is done by IT.
Further information about electrical testing on Campus is here:
https://intranet.canterbury.ac.nz/finance/procurement/docs/UC_Campuswide_TestandTag.pdf
https://intranet.canterbury.ac.nz/hs/documents/hs_pro29.pdf
Tim O’Sullivan
We have an evacuation chair in PJH and it has been used more than a few times for various needs. It is not an emergency evacuation chair but can be used in emergencies.
If you would like to know how it works and what it can be used for I will have a practice session on Thursday 9th July 11.00-11.30am. Please meet in Room 203.
Further sessions can be arranged if you can not make that date so please let me know.
Tim O’Sullivan
You may already know this but Echo 360 seems not to work when using the Safari browser. I had a frustrated student on Asklive this morning wondering why Echo 360 would not work and it turned out that changing to Chrome was the answer.
Tim O’Sullivan