The Central Environmental Protection Officer offers advice and support in all areas of environmental protection. This concerns the areas of biodiversity and green spaces, hazardous substances, water-polluting substances and water on campus, economical use of energy resources, waste disposal, immission control, mobility and various other issues. With a dual function, the officer also ensures the elimination of occupational safety and health problems identified by safety engineers, fire protection officers and the regulatory authorities. The information required under environmental protection law is kept centrally here and the prescribed expert inspections are organised.
The university has recently installed an IT program for managing the university-wide hazardous substances directory. This is now successively being made available to the institutions, with the requirement that the hazardous substances directory is maintained by the relevant departments.
A new addition is the nationwide registration of all evaporative cooling systems and cooling towers via a central register, in which LUH has already entered the relevant systems. After several Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks had occurred, a nationwide central register has been created in order to be able to quickly locate the originator and to monitor maintenance and testing of such cooling installation.
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30167 Hannover
