Health & Safety Services

Mission Statement

To provide effective and high quality health and safety, moving and handling and violence and aggression advice, guidance, training and education to managers and staff, to enable them to ensure that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde complies with relevant legislation and provide the best and safest possible healthcare for patients, staff and others.

Vision Statement

Our vision is to provide excellence in all aspects of our Service, thereby reducing work related accidents, ill health and injury to our staff and patients, year on year, by creating a positive health and safety culture across NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

This page has links to the rest of our site and more information of our service including contact details.

Contact Us

The Health & Safety Service  is made up of a number of teams and services including:

• Health & Safety
• Moving & Handling
• Health & Safety Violence Reduction
• Occupational Hygiene
• Lone Worker Support Service
• First Aider at Work

All of the above teams contact details are available through the internal email system or through the main HR contact number 0141 278 2700

Health & Safety Teams

There are four Health & Safety Teams: 

• Acute Services North Team which covers North Sector, Regional Services Directorate and PPSU
• Acute Services South Team which covers South & Clyde Sectors and Women & Children and Diagnostic Directorate
• Facilities Team which covers the Facilities Directorate and all Corporate functions
• Partnerships Team which covers all Partnerships

Moving & Handling Teams

There are three Moving & Handling Teams:

• Acute Services North Team which covers everything north of the river, the new children's hospital and renal services
• Acute Services South Team which covers everything south of the river, with the above exceptions
• Partnerships Team which covers all Partnerships within  NHSGGC