Become a student health and safety representative

What does being a representative mean?

Student health and safety representatives represent themselves and their fellow students in work environment issues.

As a student health and safety representative, you will work for all the students included in your area of responsibility. You will be given the opportunity to participate in the University’s systematic work environment management by taking part in safety inspections and serving on health and safety committees, for example. 

Student health and safety representatives are not in any way responsible for the student work environment and therefore are not held accountable for shortcomings or if measures to improve it are not implemented. Responsibility for the work environment always lies with the University and ultimately, the Vice-Chancellor.

Find out who is responsible for the study and work environment

How to become a student health and safety representative

Student health and safety representatives are elected through your student union. Contact your student union if you are interested. They can answer questions about how and when these representatives are elected.

All links lead to contact pages on external websites:

• Faculty of Engineering student union
• Faculty of Fine and Performning Arts student union
• Faculty of Law student union
• Faculty of Medicine student union
• Faculty of Science student union
• School of Economics and Management student union
• The Social Sciences student union
• The Student Union for Humanities and Theology (in Swedish)

Training for student health and safety representatives

Lund University holds regular training sessions for all student health and safety representatives. The Student Health Centre provides the training in conjunction with the Student Ombudsman and Lund University’s Students’ Unions (LUS).

The training consists of two parts:

• An online course hosted on Canvas.
• A teacher-led session where you will have the opportunity to discuss different situations and exchange experiences with other student health and safety representatives.

Contact work environment coordinator Marie Gruvhammar at the Student Health Centre for information on when the next training session will be held.