POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
- Occupational health and safety
- Environmental policy
- Complaints - non academic
- Conduct
- Attendance at classes
- Insurance
- Afterhours access
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Environmental policy
The University of Sydney's environmental policy promotes sustainable resource and product use and encourages the practice of environmental stewardship by staff and students. The policy is supported by the University wide Sustainable Campus Program.
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Complaints - non academic
The FHS Complaints Procedure - non academic outlines the procedures within the Faculty to address occurrences whereby an individual submits a complaint against a non-academic decision or action that is not directly related to a student's academic assessment or progress in their degree.
The processes adopted by the Faculty in relation to non-academic complaints are based on and are consistent with the University's complaints policy Resolution of Complaints.
This document does not apply to complaints of harassment and discrimination, which are handled under the University's Harassment and discrimination Resolution Procedure.
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Conduct
Acceptance as a student in the faculty implies an undertaking on the part of the student to observe the resolutions and rules of the faculty and statutes of the University of Sydney. Students are expected to conduct themselves in an acceptable manner. Smoking, eating, drinking, and use of mobile phones are not permitted during lectures, tutorials, clinical sessions, examinations or in the Library.
Misconduct at the Faculty of Health Sciences will be dealt with under the rules of the faculty and the statutes of the University of Sydney.
Members of the staff at the Faculty of Health Sciences, both academic and non-teaching, have a responsibility to maintain orderly and acceptable conduct and to report any breach of regulations occurring on the campus.
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Attendance at classes
It is expected that students will attend classes as required by the unit coordinator. A student who has not satisfied the attendance requirements for a unit laid down by the course coordinator in which the unit is offered may be refused permission to be considered for assessment or to sit for an assessment in that unit.
In the case of protracted illness or of absence arising from some other unavoidable cause, a student on presentation of appropriate documentation may be excused from attendance at classes by the course coordinator for a period not exceeding two months in any one year. In the case of absences in excess of two months, students must apply for leave of absence.
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Insurance
Please refer Clinical and Professional Fieldwork website for information on insurance.
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Access to buildings after hours
Approval for afterhours access to buildings must be obtained from the relevant course coordinator.