Student Safety Policy

Termez University of Economics and Service is committed to providing a learning, living, and working environment in which the safety, health, dignity, and wellbeing of students are protected and promoted. The University recognizes that student safety is a core institutional responsibility and an essential condition for academic success, participation, inclusion, and personal development.

This Policy establishes the institutional framework through which the University identifies, prevents, manages, and responds to risks that may affect students in academic, practical, social, residential, digital, and campus-related environments. Student safety requires cooperation between institutional leadership, academic and administrative staff, technical and operational units, student representatives, and the students themselves.

The mission of TUES in relation to student safety is to create and maintain a safe, respectful, inclusive, and risk-aware university environment in which all students can pursue their education free from avoidable harm, unsafe conditions, neglect of duty, and unreasonable exposure to physical, psychological, environmental, or operational risk.

The University is committed to ensuring that student safety is embedded into institutional planning, academic delivery, practical training, campus operations, emergency management, and student support systems. TUES aims to promote a culture in which safety is understood as a shared value and where every student is supported by clear procedures, responsive structures, and a professionally managed environment.

The objectives of this Policy are to establish a consistent institutional framework for student safety across all areas of University activity; to define the responsibilities of students, staff, and University units in protecting health and safety; to reduce the likelihood of accidents, injuries, unsafe conduct, and preventable incidents; to ensure that risks associated with learning spaces, laboratories, workshops, field activities, digital environments, campus services, and student-related operations are properly assessed and managed; and to strengthen the University's emergency preparedness and response capacity.

A further objective is to ensure that students are informed about the risks that may arise in the course of their academic and campus life and are equipped with the knowledge, guidance, and support necessary to act safely and responsibly.

The University's goals are to ensure that all students have access to a safe learning environment; that all high-risk academic and practical activities are subject to appropriate supervision and risk control; that emergency procedures are clearly communicated and operational; that safety reporting systems are accessible and trusted; and that student safety is monitored as part of the University's broader governance and quality management system.

The University aims to build a culture of prevention rather than reaction. This means reducing risk before incidents occur, identifying unsafe conditions at an early stage, supporting responsible behaviour, and ensuring that departments and service units address safety as part of their day-to-day management responsibility.

This Policy applies to all enrolled students and covers all academic, practical, extracurricular, digital, campus-based, and University-organized activities. It applies to classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories, workshops, libraries, computer rooms, sports and recreation facilities, event spaces, field visits, study tours, internships or practical placements, and student accommodation or transport arrangements connected with University activity.

The Policy also applies to academic staff, administrative staff, technical staff, supervisors, laboratory personnel, security personnel, facilities staff, contractors, and any person whose duties or conduct may influence student safety.

TUES adopts a student safety approach based on six core principles: prevention (identify and reduce risks before they result in harm); shared responsibility (student safety is a responsibility of the institution as well as of individual staff and students); proportionality (controls and safeguards must be appropriate to the level and nature of the risk); inclusion (safety arrangements must take into account the diverse needs of students); accountability (responsibilities must be clear); and continuous improvement (safety arrangements must be reviewed regularly and strengthened in light of experience and emerging risks).

Students are expected to conduct themselves responsibly and safely in all areas of the University and during all University-related activities. They must comply with applicable safety instructions, faculty or departmental rules, and directions issued by authorized staff in relation to safe conduct, emergency response, use of equipment, access restrictions, and protective measures.

Students must not misuse, damage, disable, ignore, or interfere with safety equipment, emergency exits, warning signs, alarms, fire protection systems, first-aid resources, or other facilities provided for safety and welfare. Students must report without delay any hazardous condition, unsafe behaviour, defective equipment, emergency situation, injury, or near miss.

Termez University of Economics and Service is responsible for maintaining an institutional environment in which student safety is addressed through governance, planning, supervision, facilities management, training, and support services. The University shall take reasonable steps to identify risks, implement control measures, communicate procedures, provide relevant safety information, maintain emergency arrangements, and ensure that responsible staff are able to carry out their safety-related duties.

The University is also responsible for ensuring that students have access to procedures for reporting safety concerns, that emergency contact and response arrangements are known, and that safety-related incidents are reviewed and addressed through proper institutional channels.

The University shall maintain clear procedures for responding to emergencies affecting students, including fire, medical incidents, accidents, security threats, dangerous occurrences, equipment failure, hazardous exposure, and other urgent situations. Students must be informed about what action to take when an emergency occurs, how to seek assistance, and how to report incidents promptly.

TUES expects that emergency routes, exits, assembly points, emergency contact arrangements, and first-response procedures be communicated and maintained appropriately. The University also recognizes that effective emergency management depends on preparedness rather than improvisation.

Where teaching, research, or practical activity involves chemicals, biological materials, cleaning agents, technical substances, or any materials that may be hazardous to health, the University requires that such work be conducted only under properly controlled conditions. No activity involving hazardous substances may be undertaken unless the relevant risk has been assessed and appropriate control measures identified.

The University expects that only trained or appropriately instructed students will handle such materials, and only within environments where supervision, storage, labelling, ventilation, waste disposal, and protective arrangements are suitable.

TUES recognizes that student safety is broader than accident prevention alone. A safe university environment also requires attention to student welfare, respectful treatment, safe access to services, support in times of difficulty, and institutional responsiveness where students feel at risk or unsafe.

The University shall maintain clear mechanisms through which students and staff may report accidents, injuries, unsafe conditions, safety breaches, near misses, dangerous behaviour, or other incidents relevant to student safety. No student should be discouraged from reporting a genuine safety concern. Safety reporting should support prevention, not merely record-keeping.

The effectiveness of this Policy shall be monitored through the University's internal governance, risk management, quality assurance, and administrative review processes. The Policy shall be reviewed at regular intervals, and earlier where significant legal, operational, institutional, or risk-related changes make revision necessary.

Termez University of Economics and Service adopts this Student Safety Policy as a formal expression of its commitment to student protection, responsible governance, and high-quality institutional care. The University affirms that student safety is fundamental to educational quality and to the trust placed in the institution by students, staff, families, and society.