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Office of Occupational Health and Safety, Animal Welfare and Environmental Protection

Responsibilities

All topics relating to occupational safety, health, animal welfare and environmental protection can be found in the AGUM service portal (internal)

  • Fulfilment of the tasks of an occupational safety specialist in accordance with the requirements of § 6 of the Arbeitssicherheitsgesetz ASiG (Occupational Safety Act)
  • Enforcement of the Arbeitssicherheitsgesetz and the corresponding ordinances, guidelines and standards
  • Implementation of the regulations of the statutory accident insurers
  • Participation in construction and plant planning and equipment procurement
  • Advice on refurbishment, equipment and organisation
  • Follow-up of the fulfilment of requirements/removal of defects
  • Organisation and monitoring of operational safety
  • Organisation and administration of risk assessments, assistance in the assessment of hazards
  • Organising and managing accident reports as well as rules and regulations
  • Carrying out accident analyses; preparing annual accident statistics and accident reports
  • Appointment and supervision of safety and laser protection officers
  • Organisation of first aider training and further training for first aiders
  • Enforcement of chemicals legislation and the corresponding ordinances, technical regulations and guidelines
  • Enforcement of the Basic Substances Monitoring Act and the Hazardous Incident Ordinance
  • Measurement of concentrations of hazardous substance in the workplace

You can reach us at arbeitsschutz@uni-wuerzburg.de

  • Biological safety, fundamental questions of genetic engineering law and the operation of genetic engineering facilities (Genetic Engineering Act and ordinances)
  • Occupational safety when handling biological agents; GLP (laboratory hygiene)
  • Enforcement of the Biological Agents Ordinance and the Infection Protection Act; processing of applications under the Infection Protection Act
  • Enforcement of the Genetic Engineering Act: processing applications, advising applicants, appointing project managers and biosafety officers in accordance with GenTSV §28 et seq. Supervision of genetic engineering facilities, participation in official inspections

You can reach us at biologische.sicherheit@uni-wuerzburg.de

  • Preventive fire protection consulting
  • Organization of fire protection and organisation of evacuation drills

  • Fundamental questions of chemicals and hazardous substances legislation
  • Support for the central chemicals management software "DaMaRIS"

  • Occupational health check-up
  • Office / VDU workstations / ergonomics
  • First aid
  • Flu, infectious stomach and intestinal diseases
  • "Gesunde Hochschule - Healthy university "
  • Maternity protection
  • Accident management
  • Behavioural recommendations for external threats

You can reach us atarbeitsschutz@uni-wuerzburg.de

  • Contact point for questions, information, complaints on topics relating to corporate sustainability and referral to the relevant university departments (or student services, etc.)
  • Creation and maintenance of a homepage "Sustainability at the University of Würzburg", collection and provision of information, e.g. legal texts, information on activities of the "Network Sustainability at Universities in Bavaria" etc.
  • Support for updating the sustainability report of the University of Würzburg on an annual basis
  • (Co-)representation of the University of Würzburg in the "Network Sustainability at Universities in Bavaria"
  • Office for the Sustainability Commission

You can reach us at nachhaltigkeit@uni-wuerzburg.de

  • Performing the tasks and duties of the radiation protection supervisor
  • Fundamental issues of radiation protection law and the operation of facilities in accordance with StrlSchG and StrlSchV
  • Occupational safety when handling radioactive substances and ionising radiation
  • Enforcement of the Radiation Protection Act, the Radiation Protection Ordinance and the corresponding guidelines and standards as well as supervision of facilities for handling radioactive substances and for the generation and application of ionising radiation
  • Advice on the construction, equipment and organisation of facilities requiring approval
  • Enforcement of the Radiation Protection Act, the Radiation Protection Ordinance and the corresponding directives and standards as well as handling the authorisation and notification procedures, advising applicants and providing administrative support for X-ray facilities
  • Appointment of radiation protection officers in accordance with the Radiation Protection Act and Ordinance
  • Organisation and supervision of the central collection point for radioactive waste

You can reach us at strahlenschutzstelle@uni-wuerzburg.de

  • Animal welfare matters relating to animal husbandry and animal experiments; laboratory animal science Fundamental matters relating to the enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act
  • Enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act: advice on applications; preparation of opinions on applications under the Animal Welfare Act; monitoring of animal husbandry and the performance of animal experiments. Organisation of the implementation of the laboratory animal notification
  • Supervision and evaluation of centralised health monitoring of laboratory animals
  • Advice on construction and renovation measures for animal facilities and laboratories
  • Enforcement of nature conservation law (Federal Nature Conservation Act; species protection law exemptions) and species protection law (Cites)
  • Enforcement of the Narcotics Act

You can reach us at tierschutzbeauftragter@uni-wuerzburg.de

  • Enforcement of dangerous goods legislation for road and air transport
  • Supervision and regular training of "authorised persons" in accordance with dangerous goods legislation (road transport)
  • Organisation of in-house training courses on the air transport of dangerous goods for consignors (PK1)
  • Advice on shipping samples or small quantities of dangerous goods by land or air or for dangerous goods in express shipping
  • Advice on the categorisation and packaging of hazardous waste
  • Technical support for hazardous goods drivers

You can reach us at zer@uni-wuerzburg.de

  • Fundamental matters of environmental protection, in particular waste disposal
  • Advice on the construction, equipment and organisation of waste disposal facilities
  • Enforcement of the Closed Substance Cycle Waste Management Act
  • Advice and training for authorised persons, organisation of training for authorised persons
  • Optimisation of disposal routes and preparation of the annual waste balance sheet
  • Technical support for the acceptance point for hazardous waste (special waste) at the Centre for Disposal and Recycling (ZER) and handling the disposal of hazardous waste (special waste) via the GSB (state acceptance point)
  • Professional and technical supervision of the redistillation and conditioning plants for recycling reusable, contaminated solvents at the Centre for Waste Management and Recycling (ZER); analysis and method development
  • Monitoring decentralised waste storage, in particular for hazardous waste (special waste)
  • Participation in the implementation of environmental law standards (e.g. Federal Immission Control Act, Water Resources Act)

You can reach us at zer@uni-wuerzburg.de