Health, safety, and environment information for SKOK

The safety delegates are the employees’ representatives in working environment issues while also working in cooperation with the Heads of Centre and the Head of Administration. The safety delegates shall participate in the planning and implementation of the systematic HSE work at the centers.

The staff has elected the following 2024-2026 Health, Safety and Environment delegates:

Our safety delegate is Kamilla Stølen

55 58 25 62

Our deputy safety delegate is Idunn Bjørlo Tandstad (on parental leave in 2025)

55 58 89 71

Fire safety delegates:

Basement: Main delegate: Kamilla Stølen, deputy delegate Kari Jegerstedt
1st floor: Main delegate: Idunn Tandstad, deputy delegate: Tone Lund-Olsen
2nd floor: Main delegate Torjus Midtgarden, deputy delegate: Rasmus Slaattelid
3rd floor: Main delegate: Kari Anne Drangsland, deputy delegate: Anders Rubing

The responsibility of the fire safety delegates is outlined in the HSE handbook under 3.2.3 HMS-retningslinjer - Retningslinje for brannvern. (Norwegian only)

Building manager:

Tone Lund-Olsen
Phone: 55 58 33 12
Mobile: 416 49 259

The Building manager is responsible for all the rooms in the building. Everyone is responsible for his/her own room/office. This means that you are responsible for monitoring the Health, Safety and Environment condition of the room to which you are assigned.

• General information about UiB's Occupational Health Service, covering topics such as psychosocial working environment, mental health, ergonomics, indoor climate, targeted health examinations, addiction and substance abuse and sick leave follow-up.

Performance appraisals

Annual performance appraisals of individual employees and their superiors should be held every year. Read the guidelines for performance appraisals here.

Superior for technical and administrative staff: Head of administration

Superior for academic staff: Head of Centre.

The Centre for Women's and Gender Research's (SKOK) and the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities' (SVT) plans and goals are based on UiB's overall goals for the working environment set by DAK 25.04.96. The working environment at UiB must:

• promote creativity, learning, work ability, health and well-being

• be such that employees and students do not develop work-related illness or be affected by work accidents

• be inclusive also for employees and students who develop poor health and reduced ability to work

• be such that all employees and students are treated with respect, shown care and given responsibility. Various forms of abuse of power must not be tolerated. To achieve this, the university must set as high quality requirements for the working environment and safety in the workplace as the primary activity to be carried out there. This is necessary due to the close dependence between these conditions. Continuous work to improve the quality of the overall working environment must be integrated into the ordinary planning and development work, documented and followed up.

The Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) and the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) will prevent accidents, environmental and health damage in order to create well-being in the workplace. Work within HSE is planned and prioritized in the same way as regular work at SKOK and SVT. The Centres' Heads of Department have an overall responsibility for ensuring that the laws and regulations to which the business is subject are followed up. Our employees have a responsibility to report to the the Centres' Heads of Department on matters concerning HSE that are not resolved directly.

Focus areas for SKOK/SVT

• Continue to disseminate awareness and knowledge of HSE at SVT/SKOK through both general information and targeted information.

• Facilitate a good psycho-social work environment

• Fire course for everyone at SKOK and SVT

• Parkveien 9 - Ida Blom's house - will be more environmentally friendly