Chulalongkorn University’s Center for Safety, Health and Environment
In its commitment to provide a healthy and safe working environment for the CU community, Chulalongkorn University’s Center for Safety, Health and Environment of Chulalongkorn University (SHECU), is determined to make Chula a zero-accident organization by 2021.
On 26 May 2020, SHECU released four announcements on the standard practices of managing occupational safety and health in a working environment, and guidelines on radiation safety, chemical safety, and biosafety and biosecurity.
Professor Tirayut Vilaivan, Director at SHECU, reveals that in the past the safety on campus was managed by individual faculties and departments, causing the measures to lack consistency in practice. By 2016, the University established the Center for Safety, Health and Environment of Chulalongkorn University to promote and drive health and safety policies on campus.
Following the Occupational Safety, Health, and Environment Act in 2011, the University established a work safety management system that complied accordingly to the provisions. The four announcements released set clear guidelines to standardize the safety practices across campus. The four announcements are: