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April 2010. (More pictures inside, page 3).

The department continued its efforts and took part in ASHPA 2011, the results of which will be announced on the next NUS Excellence day on 24 February 2011.

See you there.

NUS Excellence Day, 11 March 2010, was a historical day for the Department of Orthopaedic.

On the department’s maiden attempt, the department was awarded the “Merit with Commendation” award due to the combined efforts of all research and laboratory staff.

With the award, came a prize money of $15,000, which led to the “Pulau Ubin Team Building Trip” on 30

Annual Safety & Health Performance Award 2010

Annual Safety & Health Performance 2011 - Getting ready

ASHPA 2011 began right after the Pulau Ubin trip.

Lots of updates to our Labo-ratory Safety Management System.

Key improvements imple-mented from our lessons of ASPHA 2010 were

1. Greater senior manage-

ment involvement

2. Centralised Department Safety Data Sheet

3. Streamlined Chemical Procurement

4. Standardize to the NUS Risk Assessment template

Culminating into the ASHPA Audit on 10th November 2010.

ASHPA 2010 Plaque

for Merit Award with Commendation

Special points of interest: ANNUAL SAFETY & HEALTH

PERFORMANCE AWARD 2010

ANNUAL SAFETY & HEALTH

PERFORMANCE AUDIT 2011

PULAU UBIN 30 APRIL 2010

LABORATORY OCCUPATIONAL

HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGE-

MENT SYSTEM 2011

UPCOMING COURSES &

EVENTS

STAR PRINCIPLE

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PULAU UBIN - TEAM BUILDING TRIP

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CHARADE - GUESS THE PHRASES

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LAB. OH&S CERTIFICATION 8

UPCOMING COURSES & EVENTS - TO ATTEND

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STAR PRINCIPLE 9

FEED US WITH YOUR FEEDBACK

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Inside this issue:

January 2011 : Issue 01

D E P A R T M E N T O F O R T H O P A E D I C S U R G E R Y , N A T I O N A L U N I V E R S I T Y O F S I N G A P O R E

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Lab. SMS ready for audit

A Day of All Smiles

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The department’s ASHPA submission was to be audited on the afternoon of 10 No-vember 2011.

And with our laboratory’s SMS ready we waited.

The meeting opened with a presentation by the external

auditor Mr. Lai, on ASHPA and the day’s agenda.

This was followed by a departmental presentation outlining the improvements carried out through out the year.

This was followed by a review of the de-partment’s Safety Management System.

After an auditors’ internal discussion, they gave the department a post-audit briefing.

Giving us a summary of the day’s general findings.

ASHPA 2011 Day of Audit - 10 Nov 2010

The Senior management, rep-resented by our Research Director, Prof. Kumar was also asked to clarify on our department’s efforts.

The auditors then proceeded to carry out the on-site verifi-cation visiting 2 labs.

The documents were re-viewed with clarification. Everyone helped to answer points that were raised.

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The Department of Orthopaedic Sur-gery’s ASHPA 2011 submission

“PLEASE

DON’T ASK

ABOUT MY

LAB”

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Are You READY?

Pulau Ubin - Team Building Trip

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Conserving energy for the trip or is it the lunch?

Lunch at the SUN Bistro

Hey don’t forget me

YES, SIR, we are!

Marching Out

… hmm leaving Singapore

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Peaceful Pulau Ubin Ya, whoopee, hooray

into

inside

Outside

out of

we started walking

don’t think we are in Singapore anymore … and walked ...

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still going strong everyone’s shooting

someone’s shooting

and we walked

and queue up for ...

and we walked

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Group 1’s phrase: ________________ ________________

Guess the phrases … … fill in the blanks

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Group 2’s phrase: ________________ ________________

Group 3’s phrase: ________________ ________________

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Group 4’s phrase: ________________ ________________

Lab. OH&S Cert. - Internal Audit Training Workshop

28 February 2011

1pm to 5 pm

"Risk Management for Laboratories"

18 January 2011

9am to 1pm

Upcoming courses for the Lab OH&S MS Certification

Lab. Occupational Health & Safety Management System Certification

(SMS).

2. Submission of the appli-cation package to OSHE on the SMS.

3. Audit by OSHE.

4. Award of a Letter of Certification to PI which is valid for 3 years.

The Department Safety Com-mittee will work with OSHE to assist our PIs in the certifica-tion exercise.

The Department Safety Com-mittee met with OSHE and PIs to discuss the certification roadmaps and timelines.

Respective PIs have nomi-nated their respective Safety Leads who are encouraged to attend the “Risk Manage-ment for Laboratories” course and “Lab. OH&S - Internal Audit Workshop”.

See Upcoming courses below.

All NUS PIs and academic lab supervisors who are conducting and/or have oversight of lab based activities will need to be certified by 31 December 2011.

The certification process typi-cally takes about 6 months and will involve the following:

1. Training by OSHE to assist PIs in the development and implementation of a lab safety management system

TAKES

6 MONTHS

START NOW TO

ENJOY THE YEAR-

END HOLIDAYS

NUS Excellence Day

24 February 2011

8am to 4pm

“NUS Safety & Health Convention”

27 January 2011

8am to 3pm

Upcoming NUS Events

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The department welcomes any feedback and suggestions on safety, health & environ-ment issues.

Issues are not limited to our department’s laboratories, issues that can improve our offices’ safety, health and environmental issues are also covered.

Please refer to our depart-ment's feedback & suggestion system at

http://medicine.nus.edu.sg/os/feedback.html

Feed Us with your Feedback - “we are hungry”

The Department of Orthopaedic

Surgery is dedicated to

provide a safe working

environment for their staff,

students and visitors. Our

guiding ‘STAR’

Safety & Health

Protocols for specific work practices, medical surveillance for lab staff, aim

to minimize injuries and ill health.

Training

We encourage staff to attend the safety courses organized by OSHE; new

members undergo safety induction training.

Awareness

We provide information about health and safety issues on a regular basis.

Responsibility

Safety and compliance is the responsibility of every staff and student in the

department.

Who will be the next “winner” of the best feedback?

Department Mission

S T A R P R I N C I P L E

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