Safety and Emergency Response
Find out how to stay safe on campus and what to do in the event of an emergency.
LU‘s campus includes teaching and learning facilities, field research areas, accommodation, leisure activities, and playing fields.
We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our students, staff, visitors, and contractors. We have various teams, services and resources in place to ensure the safety and wellbeing of everyone on our campus.
Health, Safety and Wellbeing
LU has a security presence on campus at all times, contact them by calling 0800 545 388
Report any suspicious, unusual, or antisocial behaviour on campus to Security, no matter how minor it may appear. Prompt reporting of incidents and issues helps everyone to keep safe on campus.
Security Services are located at Facilities Management
Security Officers patrol the campus 24 hours 7 days a week and provide assistance and support for Students and Staff. All Security staff are trained in First Aid and the use of the University’s Defibrillators in case of cardiac arrest. Officers patrol on foot and by vehicle so expect to see them anywhere at any time.
- Ensure that all vehicles are locked when parked, and do not leave valuables in vehicles.
- If you are worried or uncomfortable about your safety on campus at any time, call Security on 0800 545 388 and ask for assistance.
If students need to talk to someone about any issue at all, there are a range of support services available and plenty of people at LU who can offer support and guidance.
LU’s Health and Safety team is here for everyone. They work across the University to ensure students, staff and contractors learn about our safe work practices, and understand what their responsibilities are.
The Health and Safety Team is responsible for supporting Lincoln’s campus community by providing advice, systems and processes, health and safety leadership and engagement, and monitoring health and safety performance across all campus activities.
You can contact the Health and Safety team at hs@lincoln.ac.nz .
Report a hazard, injury or medical event to Security, call 0800 545 388.
In the event of a medical emergency or harm to people call 111 immediately. The operator will ask you what your emergency is and if you want the Fire Brigade, Ambulance or Police. The operator is there to assist you so try to remain calm and answer their questions so they can provide the appropriate emergency responders.
If it is a not a life-threatening situation, call Campus Security on 0800 545 388 and they will provide the appropriate assistance.
Students and visitors to the campus should alert Campus Security if they become aware of any general hazards on campus, or report them to the Health and Safety team hs@lincoln.ac.nz
It is everyone’s responsibility to identify and manage hazards and risks.
Identifying and managing hazards and risks is fundamental to ensuring health, safety and wellbeing. Lincoln University encourages a proactive and robust culture to identify and manage risks and hazards.
Students and visitors to the campus should alert Campus Security if they become aware of any general hazards.
The University has systems and processes in place to manage external contractors and construction activities on campus. This is jointly managed by the Health and Safety Team, Campus Development Programme, Facilities Management, and ITS.
LU has highly comprehensive emergency response plans, which can be found in our safety app SAFELU. This allows everyone to respond quickly and appropriately in an emergency, and allows the University to send information to everyone on campus.
SAFELU is a mobile app that gives the University a way to communicate the status of safety events on campus. We’ve created this app because at Lincoln University, your safety matters.
Download SAFELU now to your phone or tablet
If you are reading this on your mobile, click the App Store or Google Play button below to go straight to the app and hit download. If not, you can search it on the relevant app store under SAFELU Lincoln.
No sign in is required, you will have access to emergency contacts, health and safety information, maps and emergency procedures, and wellbeing support tools. This will be our main way of managing communication with you in the event of an emergency such as a campus lockdown, a closure due to bad weather, a power or water outage etc.
We encourage everyone who comes onto campus, staff, students, and regular visitors, to download the app.
Download SAFELU
SAFELU is a mobile app that gives the University a way to communicate the status of safety events on campus.
Health and Safety Policy
Lincoln University is committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for staff, contractors, consultants, students and visitors. We aim to continually improve and achieve excellence in the management of Health and Safety by building awareness, involvement and commitment to the safety, health and wellbeing of our campus community, and to continually strive for excellence in health and safety management. Read the policy.
Student Responsibilities around Health and Safety
Depending on your course of study there are various health and safety processes students must follow. There may be additional training you need to undertake to keep you safe during learning and research activities. This might include attending safety inductions or learning and following protocols for managing risks, working around hazardous substances, field activities, and using specialist equipment. Your course supervisor will inform you of the health and safety requirements specific to your course. Safety information could be delivered directly through LEARN, or via lecturers, tutors and lab managers.
Clean air campus
Lincoln University is a Clean Air campus, embracing a vision of integrating health and wellbeing into the culture and processes of our campus to eliminate exposure to tobacco smoke for all staff, students, contractors and visitors, and supporting the Government’s vision for a smoke-free New Zealand by 2025. Our Clean Air Policy also applies to the use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), personal vaporizers, and electronic nicotine delivery systems. All areas of the Lincoln University campus are deemed as smoke-and vape-free, with the exception of designated outdoor smoking concession spaces for the years 2020-2022. This policy applies to all staff, students, contractors and visitors. Read the policy.
Smoking cessation information and assistance is available to students and staff, and we work with Te Hā – Waitaha who offer free stop smoking support to anyone in Canterbury.
Emergency contacts
In the event of a fire, medical emergency or harm to people call 111 immediately. The operator will ask you what your emergency is and if you want the Fire Brigade, Ambulance or Police. The operator is there to assist you, so try to remain calm and answer their questions so they can provide the appropriate emergency responders.
Emergency Flip Charts around campus provide information on what to do and who to contact in various emergency scenarios, and also list the nearest person who is First Aid trained. The Emergency Flip Charts are usually found next to the fire call points.
If it is a not a life-threatening situation, call Campus Security on 0800 545 388 and they will provide the appropriate assistance.
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