Safety correspondents (COSEC) are the first safety contact for each research unit.
Roles and responsibilities:
Professors and heads of unit are by default the security correspondents (COSEC) for their unit.
They may delegate this task to an experienced employee.
The role of COSEC is to:
- Transmit the information sent by the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) to the unit staff.
- Inform the OHS service of any safety-related changes in the unit, such as new hazards, major changes in infrastructure, new activities and scale-ups of experiments.
- Participate in the safety audits.
- Inform the Principal Investigator of any safety-related problems in their research unit (dangerous behavior, refusal to wear personal protective equipment, hazardous handling of reagents or waste, etc.).
- Inform the OHS of safety-related accidents via the dedicated tool (Incident Manager)
- Create and update “door safety data sheets” every time there is a change related to hazards present in the room and at least once a year.
- Check and update first aid equipment (e.g. eye showers, first aid kits, fire blankets).
The COSEC must be a person who:
- has an extensive laboratory experience and ideally a fix term contract in the research unit.
- is aware of all hazards and laboratory activities present and carried out in the laboratories used by their unit.
- has the ability and the authority to impose safety rules in the laboratory.
Trainings
Please find here the trainings for COSEC and other safety trainings for laboratory personnel:
COSEC and hazard specific training
Safety training courses
Helpful soft-skill trainings
Giving and receiving constructive feedback / Donner et recevoir du feedback constructif (FR/EN)
Essential Management Skills (FR/EN)