Awareness
As a professor, you are responsible for ensuring that the health of your staff and students is protected and that accidents are prevented within ETH Zurich. You are obliged to designate safety officers and to inform your staff/students of the essential points on safety and intervention should an event occur.
For an overview of your health and safety responsibilities as a supervisor, download this Download Suva brochure (PDF, 927 KB).
Regularly ensure that your employees are aware of and up to date on occupational health and safety and environmental protection. You can find the relevant documents here.
With the help of the training module «Safety and security at ETH Zurich», SSHE Training informs you about the safety and security principles and offers advice on how to react in the event of an emergency at ETH Zurich. Professors and all supervisors ensure that the safety training is integrated into the introduction programme for new employees of their organisational unit and, if required, that it is repeated
Training module on “Safety at ETH Zurich”.
Your employees and students contribute to operational environmental protection. Hazardous waste should be reduced to a minimum and the amount of radioactive waste should be kept low. In principle, no chemicals are to be leaked into the environment via waste water or exhaust air. In addition, a conservational approach towards resources is seen as a matter of course in the daily business of ETH Zurich, particularly with regards to greenhouse gas emissions, disposal and recycling, energy etc.
Chemical Wastewater and Water Protection
The key water pollution control tasks and responsibilities for ETH members (all ETH employees, apprentices, bachelor and master students, PhD candidates, post-docs, etc.) are
- Being familiar with the chapters of the Download ETH Waste Disposal Guideline (PDF, 307 KB) which are related to your line of work
- Following directives related to water pollution control
- Not discharging any chemicals, e.g. verifiable toxic and persistent substances such as chlorinated hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons, or heavy metal compounds into the wastewater
- Not using water jet pumps
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Hazardous waste
The key hazardous waste disposal tasks and responsibilities for ETH members (all ETH employees, apprentices, bachelor and master students, PhD candidates, post-docs, etc.) are
- Being familiar with the chapters of the Download ETH Waste Disposal Guideline (PDF, 307 KB) which are related to your line of work
- Following directives related to hazardous waste disposal
- Avoiding unnecessary activities that create hazardous waste
- Storing hazardous waste at the workplace correctly and bringing it to a hazardous waste disposal facility promptly
- Labelling hazardous waste correctly
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SSHE cares for a healthy and safe working environment at ETH and advises you in health protection issues.
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Further Information
Convey the most important occupational safety tasks and responsibilities to ETH Zurich employees and students:
- Following instructions regarding occupational safety and respecting the recognised safety rules
- Wearing the provided personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Immediately reporting safety deficiencies to a supervisor
Other subjects may also be relevant, depending on the field of work.
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ETH Zurich is an open university. Consequently, we set great store by the personal responsibility of its students and staff. Look after ETH Zurich property and your own personal belongings. Ensure that your students and employees take the same care with the property of ETH Zurich as they do with their own property.
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Further Information
On many courses, taking part in excursions, field courses or field trials is compulsory. When these are being planned, the excursion leaders often have questions about safety, security, insurance and responsibilities. SSHE therefore makes documentation available to help those responsible with the organisation and, especially, with safety and security issues. For students’ travels abroad or domestic travels involving specific risks, the Download directive «Study trips, field trips and excursions: Handling risks» (PDF, 219 KB) has to be observed. Please also note when travelling abroad that an export control check can be required if you are taking material with you. This is to ensure that no official export license for the export of the material is required. Even carrying a laptop may require an export license, insofar as it contains unpublished results from applied research that are intended for exchange. If you have any questions, please contact the protected page Export Control Office of ETH.