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December 2016
“We‐Safety” is a newsletter aimed at providing PolyU staff and students with safety information and news about how the University is working to keep our community safe. May We work together to achieve Safety on campus.
Health & Safety PolyU Family The first week‐long health and safety promotional campaign, “Safety Week 2015”, won the “Safety Promotion Award – Bronze Award” in the “15th Hong Kong Occupational Safety & Health Award” organized by the Occupational Safety & Health Council. Leveraging the success of Safety Week 2015 and to raise health & safety awareness and cultivate a safety culture among stakeholders on campus, Health, Safety & Environment Office (HSEO) organized another Safety Week from 15 to 22 November 2016 that was filled with plenty of fruitful health and safety activities. The theme of Safety Week 2016 is “Health & Safety PolyU Family”, strives for community togetherness in health and safety. In response to the feedbacks from last year, more health related topics and activities have been integrated into the programmes to cater for the interests of the stakeholders. Increased number of University departments and external organizations engaged and interactive participation was garnered from competitions, interactive booths, seminars and workshops to strive for unity in health and safety through education, communication and collaboration.
Opening Ceremony cum Competition Prize Presentation
Opening Ceremony cum Competition Prize Presentation Safety Week 2016 kicked off on 15 November 2016 with a traditional artwork performance by the Master ofpaper‐tearing art Mr Lee Man Sing. The Opening Ceremony was then officiated by Mr Andy Tong, Vice President(Campus Development and Facilities); Mr Jeff Leung, Deputy Commissioner for Labour (Occupational Safety &Health); Ms Bonnie Yau, Executive Director of Occupational Safety and Health Council (OSHC) and Mr Y. K. Kam,Head (Health, Safety & Environment). In the Ceremony, Mr Andy Tong remarked that the health and safety ofour University relied heavily on each and every stakeholder’s contribution and participation. Awards were presented to the winners of the Slogan Competition and HSEO Logo Design Competition in theceremony. Impressive number of entries were received with 163 entries for Slogan Competition and 37 for LogoDesign Competition. Slogan is a simple way to deliver message to the target audience. Mr Chen Yue, winner ofthe Slogan Competition (Student Group), agreed with this, “using simple words and sentences to conveymeaningful message on health and safety awareness is a delightful treat”.
Interactive Booths & Workshops to Deliver Health & Safety Messages in an Interesting Way In responding to the feedbacks received from last year’s Safety Week, more interactive elements were includedin Safety Week 2016 to deliver health and safety messages in a fun and interesting way. Nine interactive boothswere set‐up on the first two days of the Week on FJ Podium and three health and safety workshops wereorganized.
Name of Booth Supporting Units
Occupational Health Check Department of Rehabilitation Sciences (RS) & University Health Service
Trial Use of Fire Extinguishers Fire Services Department & Facilities Management Office
How to Use Fire Hose Reel OSHC
Safe Use of Pesticides Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department
Occupational Safety & Health e‐Quiz
Labour Department
Find Out the Problems Electrical and Mechanical Services Department
Healthy Diet Department of Health
First‐aid Demonstration St John Ambulance
Visit to Ambulance
Participation from students and staff members from various departments was successfully engaged to cultivate the safety culture on campus. Thanks to the support from external organizations and internal academic departments and administrative units (as listed), interactive booths covered many different topics and activities including occupational health check, flexibility check and trial of fire extinguishers to allow stakeholders to learn more about health and safety matters.
Paper‐tearing Performance with Artwork in Chinese Chartacter of “Safety”
St John Ambulance’s Performance
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More than 20 students proactively enrolled to help manage the interactive booths during the Week. “Managingthe booth provides a chance for us to spot out the problems of standing posture and handgrip strength of ourstaff and students. We may provide them relevant occupational health advice and recommend the exercise for them,” said Mr T.C. Chan and Mr C.W. Ho, Year 4 students from RS who helped in the booth of “OccupationalHealth Check”. The booths not only provided a platform for the University community to obtain health and safetyknowledge, but also for the student helpers to obtain valuable experience. “Safety Week provides me anexperience to have face‐to‐face communication with staff and students and listen to their concern onoccupational health issue,” Chan and Ho added. Three workshops were fully enrolled during the Week. Staff and students learnt the ways to manage their stressthrough different activities such as mindfulness yoga and paper tearing art. Display Screen Equipment (DSE) usersalso learnt the latest stretching exercises to improve occupational health in workplace.
Site Visits & Seminars to Provide Health & Safety Information The highly appreciated site visits and seminars returned. Four site visits and four seminars were organized tomake Safety Week 2016 more informative and broad‐spectrum. During off‐campus site visits to the LammaPower Station of Hong Kong Electric, Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company Limited and Kowloon Motor BusCo. Ltd, participants could benchmark the best practices in safety from these reputable companies in differentindustries. Also, participants could test their hand hygiene and learn the latest designs in needle safety in the on‐campus visit to The Squina International Centre for Infection Control. Seminars with different topics on construction safety, campus safety and stress management, delivered by professional speakers, allowedparticipants to acquire the latest trend and knowledge in the industries.
Trial Use of Fire Extinguishers Student Helper Mr T.C. Chan introduces grip strength test at “Occupational Health Check” booth
Mindfulness Yoga Paper Tearing Workshop
Safety Quiz Competition to Test Participants’ Health & Safety Knowledge Having eight teams of staff and students joining the 2nd Safety Quiz Competition shows that the PolyU community is enthusiastic and involved in campus health and safety matters. Three teams with the highestmarks in the preliminary round held in October entered the final competition on 21 November. It was nip andtuck all the way in the contest and finally “Mental Health Team”, a group of students from School of Nursingwon the championship. Ms Cinderella Chau, leader of “Mental Health Team” expressed, “the Competition benefits us as we may know the health and safety issues of other areas and note which area we have to enhancethrough the competition. We strongly recommend our peers younger schoolmates to join the Competition inthe coming year.” In addition to the above activities, Safety Information Exhibition and an ambulance display have also been heldon Podium during the Week. Over 1,000 staff and students participated in the activities throughout the Weekwith very positive response. HSEO believes that by educating and nurturing the culture of health and safety, asafer campus can be built.
We ― Update DHSO Recognition cum Experience Sharing Seminar It is the policy of the University that Heads of the Department/Unit should appoint departmental health andsafety officers (DHSO) to advise the department, ensure the implementation of health and safety arrangementsand liaise with Head (Health, Safety & Environment). DHSOs put a lot of efforts into the health and safety issuein one’s own department/unit and plays an important role in maintaining a healthy and safe environment. Torecognize DHSOs’ contribution, the DHSO Recognition cum Experience Sharing Seminar was held on 22 November 2016 on the closing day of Safety Week.
Site Visit to Lamma Power Station Winners of Safety Quiz Competition
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In the seminar, Mr Andy Tong, Vice President (Campus Development and Facilities) emphasized once again thathealth and safety of PolyU community had been put on top priority and presented certificates to DHSOs torecognize their effort paid on the role. “Without the contribution of DHSO, PolyU could not become a safe andhealthy campus for the quest for excellence in learning, teaching and research.” remarked Mr Tong. In addition,Dr Curtis Ng, DHSO of Department of Mechanical Engineering; Mr Fenkins Chow, DHSO of Industrial Centre and Ir Dr Michael Yam, Chairman of Departmental Health, Safety and Environmental Committee (DHSEC) ofDepartment of Building and Real Estate were invited to share their experiences on how to improve health andsafety environment in their own departments. The half‐day seminar provided an excellent opportunity for DHSOs to share and benchmark each other’s experience on health and safety arrangements.
We ― Learn HSEO continues to strengthen our in‐house safety training. One of the areas we focus on is the health risksarose from prolonged use of DSE. A training class is scheduled to train competence persons to carry out DSEworkstation risk assessment (DSE assessor) with details as follows:
Date Time Language Venue
3 March (Friday) 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. English supplemented with Cantonese Z507
The new Central Chemical Procurement System, developed by the “Dangerous Goods Management Team” ofHSEO, was effective from 1 October 2016. A series of classes of “Briefing for Purchasing Delegates on the CentralChemical Purchasing System” has been organized since 2016. The coming session is scheduled in late Februarywith details below:
Session Date Time Language Venue
Class Q 24 February (Friday) 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. English Z405
Please visit HSEO webpage at http://www.polyu.edu.hk/hseo/training‐news/training‐enrollment for the latest information on training and enrolment. In addition to on‐campus training courses, OSHC will hold a seminar on 7 February 2017 at which OccupationalHealth Nurse from Labour Department will explain the mode of disease transmission, adverse health effects,and address the infection control measures in the workplace for this Influenza season. Details are as follows: Topic: Open Seminar on Concept of Infection Control in the Workplace Date: 7 February 2017 (Tuesday) Time: 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Venue: Christian Family Service Centre Auditorium, 3 Tsui Ping Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon Language:Cantonese The above said seminar is free of charge and you are welcome to visit http://www.oshc.org.hk/others/bookshelf/OS2017‐02‐07.pdf for registration.
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We ― People
Dr. Lorna Suen, The Squina International Centre for Infection Control The Squina International Centre for Infection Control (CIC) is a specialist center hosted by the School of Nursing(SN). CIC is an interdisciplinary, technological, educational, and consultative center tasked to spearhead thepromotion of excellence in infection prevention and control.
Aiming to reinforce the promotion of healthy behaviors, Dr Suen readily accepted HSEO’s invitation to introducethe latest measures of infection control and disease prevention to staff members and students at the “Site Visitto CIC” during Safety Week 2016. She stated, “Safety Week is a meaningful campaign to encourage health and safety awareness among staff members and students. It is CIC’s pleasure to have a chance to cooperate withHSEO and promote healthy behaviors in the University community.” Participants tested their hand hygienelevels, learned the correct way of choosing appropriate masks, and also gained familiarity with the latest designsin needle safety in the three skill stations, namely “Hand Hygiene Skill Station”, “Mask Fitting & PersonalProtective Equipment Skill Station”, and “Safety on Sharps, Specimen Collection & Waste Disposal Handling SkillStation” respectively.
Dr Lorna Suen, Director of CIC
Dr Lorna Suen, Associate Professor of SN, has been the CIC Director since April 2012. Over the years, in addition to facilitating CIC’s applied, innovative research and health care professional training, Dr Suen has led the promotion of healthy behaviors and fostered a healthy environment through community education programs via health talks in kindergartens, schools, and institutions for the elderly. CIC also conducted forums for the University community on infection control and disease prevention for librarians, catering service providers, and residents of the student halls. Dr Suen said, “We recruited student ambassadors from SN to participate in community education, and equipped them with knowledge and skills for health promotion and infection control.”
Safety Week 2016: Site Visit to CIC CIC Colleagues and students from SN
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HSEO takes care of the health and safety needs of departments and offices. Should departments/offices have specific safety training needs, please contact HSEO.
Dr Suen believes that the re‐opening of CIC in November 2015 is a milestone of success for the centre. The yearly course now consists of more comprehensive modules than before to cover a wide range of subjects on infectious diseases and infection control for healthcare professionals. Considerable applied research is on‐going and much pioneering research has been proposed. Dr Suen added, “Currently, we are cooperating with the Institute of Textiles and Clothing and the Department of Health Technology & Informatics on the evaluation of personal protective equipment for preventing Ebola transmission in terms of degree of contamination during doffing, protocol violations and perceived usability level. We would also like to conduct a study on examining the human behaviors in hand drying, and the hygienic efficacy of different hand drying methods in the future.” Dr Suen wishes CIC to continue offering highly up‐to‐date infection control knowledge, disease prevention skills, and healthy behaviors to the University community and to the public.
We ― Listen We value your opinions and We always Listen. “Safety Outreaching Program” is one of the programs that HSEO initiated and commenced in 2016 to “reach out” to selected population for safety need identification and to build trust, gather users’ expectation for services and support and enhance safety culture on campus. Visiting and attending DHSEC and/or meeting the safety personnel of departments and offices is one of the activities of the program to enhance communication and provide direct response to members’ views/opinions. In September 2016, HSEO representatives attended the DHSEC meeting of English Language Centre (ELC) and had a fruitful discussion. At the meeting, it was noted that the English‐speaking teaching staff members, who use display screen equipment, could hardly attend HSEO’s English‐medium‐instructed DSE training courses during the semester due to their teaching schedule. In addition to the online information obtained from HSEO website, they requested for an interactive DSE training course with relevant ergonomic issues included. In responding to ELC’s health and safety training need, HSEO organized a half‐day class of “Safety Training for DSE Users” during “Week 0” before the commencement of Semester 2 on 10 January 2017 for the convenience of the ELC teaching staff.
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We – Challenge “We‐Challenge” is open to all PolyU staff members and students (both full‐time and part‐time). If you answerall the questions correctly, you will have a chance to receive a voucher worth HK$50. A total of 5 winners willbe drawn from those who get all the answers right.
1) What is the theme of “Safety Week 2016”?a. Safe Campus Safe Learningb. Health & Safety PolyU Familyc. Health & Safety in Mind You make PolyU Shine
2) Over ______ staff and students were engaged in the activities throughout the Safety Week 2016a. 300b. 500c. 1,000
3) Dr Lorna Suen has served as Director of CIC since ______ .a. 2012b. 2013c. 2014
4) At the “DHSO Recognition cum Experience Sharing Seminar”, who was invited to share his experienceon how to improve health and safety environment at his own department?a. Mr Jeff Leungb. Ms Bonnie Yauc. Ir Dr Michael Yam
5) Visiting and attending _____________ is one of the activities of the “Safety Outreaching Program”a. Departmental Health, Safety and Environmental Committeeb. Health & Safety Committee (University‐wide)c. Research Safety Sub‐Committee
Please visit https://www.polyu.edu.hk/mysurvey/index.php/791634 for “We‐Challenge”. Remarks:
In the interest of fairness, staff members of HSEO are not permitted to participate in “We‐Challenge”. In case of dispute, HSEO reserves the right of final decision.
Thanks to all who took part in “We – Challenge” of the last issue. The 5 winners below will each receive a giftvoucher:
1. Chan Yuk Sheung, AF2. Cheung Tsz Wing Flavia, HTI3. Kenny Chan, CDO4. Cheng Sui Lan Peggy, FMO5. Judy Kwan, CPCE
Congratulations to all the winners. They will be notified by email of the arrangements for voucher collection.
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