Policies, procedures and guidance notes

The NERC safety policy and RCUK SO environmental policy statements are available for downloading

RCUK Swindon Office Environmental Policy Statement (ISO14001) (236KB)

NERC Safety Procedures are listed below. They set standards for the management of specific areas of safety. They have a common format:

Introduction - the scope of the Procedure
Operational procedure - how it should be managed (mainly aimed at management)
Roles and responsibilities - for senior, middle, junior management and staff
System flow diagram - summary of the operational procedure and responsibilities
What might go wrong? - probable sources of system and individual failure - guidance on pitfalls for all management levels and staff
Management, monitoring and auditing - bullet points on systems and documentation
Annexes - technical information for specialists

The procedures are designed to cover those aspects of safety management which should operate throughout the organisation. It is recognised that individual components of NERC will have local differences in the type of work they do and specific issues on many areas of safety not covered in the Procedures. Local policies and procedures will extend the general Procedure into these specific issues and specialist areas.

Research centres are expected to operate to the standards of the Procedure as a minimum, are encouraged to develop local additions/modifications (which are then fed back into review of Procedures) and may set tighter local standards if they think that is appropriate.

In addition to Health and Safety policies, procedures and guidance there is also the NERC Insurance Handbook which gives comprehensive information regarding insurance cover both in the U.K. and overseas.

NERC Insurance Handbook (127KB)

It should be noted that these procedures are live documents and are subject to change. It is advisable not to keep printed copies longer than four weeks.

Also available below are usable forms (word documents) that relate to the particular procedure.

Documents available

Documents in draft

The procedures listed below are in draft. For further information please contact Bill Hall.

Safe storage & installation of gas cylinders

Policies, procedures and guidance notes

Documents available

Guidance

Policies, procedures and terms of reference

Forms

Documents in draft