| Abbreviation |
Definition |
| DHSO |
Departmental Health and Safety Officer |
| HSE |
Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 and Amendment Act
2002 |
| DLM |
Departmental Laboratory Manager |
| SMOU |
Safe Method of Use |
| PC1/PC2 |
Physical Containment Level 1/Physical Containment Level
2 |
| IBSC |
Institutional Biological Safety Committee |
| RSA |
Radiation Safety Advisor |
| ULM |
University Laboratory Manager |
| HSRC |
Hazardous Substances and Radiation Committee |
| ACC PP |
ACC Partnership Programme |
| ACC |
Accident Compensation Corporation |
| IPRC Act |
Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation and Compensation
Act |
| AVC |
Assistant Vice Chancellor |
| Accident |
An event causing personal harm (illness or injury,
acute or chronic) |
| Incident |
An event which in different circumstances may have
caused an accident, illness or injury. This includes "near
misses" or "near hits". |
| Exposure |
Personal contact with a hazard, either directly
or indirectly, via ingestion, inhalation, physical contact,
radiant energy, etc. |
| Hazard |
An activity, arrangement, circumstance, event, occurrence,
phenomenon, process, situation or substance that is an actual
or potential cause or source of harm.
The HSE Amendment Act 2002 specifically recognises a situation
where a person's behaviour may be an actual or potential cause
or source of harm, and without limitation, a situation described
in subparagraph (1) resulting from physical or mental fatigue,
drugs, alcohol, traumatic shock, or another temporary condition
that affects a person's behaviour. |
Harm
Serious Harm |
Means illness, injury or both;
Includes physical or mental harm caused by work related stress.
Serious harm , means death, or harm of a kind or description set out in the first schedule to the Act, or declared by regulation to be "serious" for the purposes of this Act; and "seriously harmed" has a corresponding meaning.
No regulations for this purpose have been passed to date. Instead, the first schedule of the Act describes serious harm as:
- Any of the following conditions that amounts to or results in permanent loss of bodily function , or temporary severe loss of bodily function :
- Respiratory disease;
- Noise-induced hearing loss, neurological disease, cancer;
- Dermatological disease;
- Communicable disease;
- Muskuloskeletal disease;
- Illness caused by exposure to infected material;
- Decompression sickness;
- Poisoning;
- Vision impairment;
- Chemical or hot-metal burn of eye;
- Penetrating wound of eye;
- Bone fracture;
- Laceration; or
- Crushing.
- Amputation of body part.
- Burns requiring referral to a specialist registered medical practitioner or specialist outpatient clinic.
- Loss of consciousness from lack of oxygen .
- Loss of consciousness, or acute illness requiring treatment by a registered medical practitioner, from absorption, inhalation, or ingestion, of any substance .
- Any harm that causes the person harmed to be hospitalised for a period of 48 hours or more commencing within 7 days of the harm's occurrence.
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| HOD |
Head of Department |
| OHN |
Occupational Health Nurse |
| OSH |
Occupational Safety and Health Service of the Department
of Labour |
| Risk |
The probability of harm arising from the hazard. |
| Significant hazard |
An actual or potential source or cause
of serious harm.
A hazard, which causes harm, the severity of which, depends on
the duration of exposure.
A hazard which causes harm which may not be detected until a significant amount
of time after exposure. |
| UHSM |
University Health and Safety Manager |
