Social safety at uu77
It is important that you feel safe where you study or work. Do you experience undesirable behaviour or feel unsafe? Do not hesitate to ask for help. There are various places you can go for support.
Do you experience undesirable behaviour or feel unsafe?
Undesirable behaviour can include behaviour that hinders you in your work or studies. Examples are constantly being interrupted, being ignored or facing unpleasant remarks. What is undesirable is primarily up to you. What is undesirable for one person may not be for another.
Sometimes the behaviour is more serious and involves transgressive behaviour, such as bullying, gossiping, discrimination, (sexual) intimidation or abuse of power or dependence. This kind of behaviour violates human dignity and has a major impact on the well-being of those involved. uu77 takes action against transgressive behaviour to ensure a safe environment for all.
Examples:
- Undesirable behaviour is, for example, someone interrupting or ignoring you regularly.
- Cross-border behaviour goes further, such as bullying, harassment, discrimination, abusing a relationship of dependency and behaviour that does not change after it has been labelled as undesirable.
Start the conversation
Have you experienced something that won't let you go, or are you worried about someone else's behaviour? Don't keep it to yourself and talk about it. Talk to the person about the behaviour and give feedback. The person exhibiting undesirable behaviour may not be aware of its effect. Giving constructive feedback can help change behaviour. Also, if you are a bystander and see that someone else is in an unsafe situation, you can discuss it.
We understand that sometimes it is difficult or impossible to speak up. Do you need support or advice? Know that you can always turn to your manager. You can also ask for help from a confidential advisor.
We create a safe study and working environment together
Social safety consists of a safe environment in which cooperation, equality, openness and consideration for each other are important. Together, we create a socially safe environment. Students and staff can be themselves and treat each other respectfully regardless of origin, belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, role or position.
Important values:
Constructive: you actively contribute to a safe and positive culture.
Open: you are curious and open to ideas, perspectives and feedback from others.
Professional: you are aware of your own behaviour and treat colleagues with respect, integrity and equality.
Why is social safety important?
uu77 sees social safety as a condition for well-being, good collaboration, quality of research & teaching and (scientific) integrity.
Know what to do in socially unsafe situations
Employees
It is important that everyone feels safe in the study and work environment and feels free to engage in difficult or critical conversations. To support this, uu77 offers a wide range of e-learnings, workshops and training courses. With these training courses you will learn to recognise socially unsafe situations, respond adequately to undesirable behaviour and listen actively.
Example
Follow the to contribute to a safe culture. During the 1.5-hour session, you will learn how to respond appropriately when you witness undesirable behaviour.
Supervisors
Want to become more confident in your skills to achieve a socially safe working environment? uu77 offers a wide range of training courses, e-learnings and tools.
Examples
- HR toolkit social safety: where supervisors can find all information in one place.
- : this e-learning course helps you in 60 minutes to become more skilled in realising a socially safe working environment.
- ‘Guideline in 10 phases: managing transgressive behaviour’: this plan helps you as a manager to go through a careful procedure with those involved when you receive a signal of repeated undesirable behaviour or transgressive behaviour
Students
For students, the training offer is under development.
Acting professionally and with integrity at uu77
uu77 pursues a climate of academic freedom, in which open discussion, freedom of mind, thought and speech are paramount. This requires clear frameworks for integrity and professional conduct. There frameworks are set out in (behavioural) codes and regulations, with the regulations being legally binding.
Project Prevent Care Cure
Within the Prevent Care Cure project, we aim to define and promote professional and positive behaviour and set up processes that work quickly and effectively when such behaviours are absent.
