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EHS Management

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor's EHS Advisory Committee

Overview

The purpose of the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor's Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Advisory Committee is to ensure a coordinated and strategic approach to EHS management. This Committee has representatives from high-risk faculties and units, administrative units with responsibility for implementation of EHS programs, industrial unions, student representative groups and management.

The Committee meets every three months and deals with strategic and policy issues, as well as University-wide hazards and issues. The Committee makes recommendations to management and reports to the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor every six months on overall progress against the UTS EHS Plan.

Terms of Reference

The terms of reference of the Environment, Health and Safety Advisory Committee are as follows:

  1. establish a coordinated and strategic approach to EHS management at UTS;
  2. facilitate, monitor and report on the implementation of the UTS EHS Plan;
  3. establish mechanisms to consult with staff and students on EHS issues;
  4. identify strategies to encourage the establishment of Faculty and Unit-based EHS Plans;
  5. coordinate the development of strategies for the management of hazards that potentially present a high risk to health, safety or the environment;
  6. support the promotion of EHS at UTS;
  7. recommend to the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor any UTS-wide action to ensure UTS has in place appropriate policies and systems for EHS;
  8. provide a mechanism for consultation;
  9. develop strategies to ensure compliance with UTS policies and applicable legislation.

The Committee reports to the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor every six months on overall progress against the UTS EHS Plan.

Committee meetings will be held in Conference Room 4b of the Chancellory (Building One, Broadway Campus).

The meeting dates, documents and minutes (from 2007 onwards) of the Committee follow. Please note that these documents are UTS-internal access only.

Meeting Number Meeting Date Meeting documents (in PDF format)
07/1 22/3/2007 @ 3pm 07/1 meeting documents (1.04 Mb)
07/2 20/6/2007 @ 3pm 07/2 meeting documents (896 kB)
07/3 30/8/2007 @ 3pm 07/3 meeting documents (182 kB)
07/4 13/12/2007 @ 3pm 07/4 meeting documents (409 kB)
08/1 5/3/2008 @ 3pm 08/1 meeting documents (223 kB)
08/2 11/6/2008 @ 3pm 08/2 meeting documents (152 kB)
08/3 10/9/2008 @ 3pm 08/3 meeting documents (511 kB)
08-4 3/12/2008 @ 3pm 08/4 meeting documents (542 kB)
09/1 12/3/2009 @ 11am 09/1 meeting documents (984 kB)
09/2 3/6/2009 @ 3pm 09/2 meeting documents (393 kB)
09/3 13/8/2009 ~
09/4 26/11/2009 ~
10/1 23/3/2010 ~
10/2 22/6/2010 ~
10/3 21/9/2010 ~
10/4 14/12/2010 ~