DEAR ALL,
I've got,finally, the actual regulations outlined by the IC admin on dress codes,health and safety and security concerns. An IC stud (cant be revealed for confidentiality purposes) said the outlines has been misunderstood by the students and the union which lead to a peace demonstration which held jointly by the student unions and isoc (islamic society) members. Still waiting for further explaination from the authorities.
Let God's love unite us all !!!
Yours truly
ZackIdris@AJA AJA FIGHTING!!!!
College Secretary’s Office
Imperial College London
Room 405, Faculty Building
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ
Tel: +44 (020) 7594 5007 Fax: +44 (0) 7594 8802
a.mitcheson@imperial.ac.uk
www.imperial.ac.uk
K. A. Mitcheson OBE MA
2 November 2005
COLLEGE NOTICE
COLLEGE DRESS CODE
At its meeting on 21 October 2005 the Management Board considered the need for a College Dress Code in the light of security concerns raised by the terrorist incidents which had occurred over the Summer. In doing so, the Board was mindful that the health, safety and security of members of the College community must be the College’s prime consideration at all times. It has a duty of care to everyone on its premises, which it cannot fulfil if it allows staff, students or visitors to move around them dressed in a manner which makes individuals unrecognisable.
Security within the College is not based solely on the ability of the security staff to match a photograph with a face, but also on other members of the College recognising who is present in an office, lecture theatre or laboratory. The ability of members of staff and students to confirm the identity of any stranger whom they find in a building is an essential element of the security process and this is lost, if, for whatever reason, people are free to move about Imperial’s campuses without identification and/or with their faces obscured.
The Board therefore approved the attached College Dress Code and agreed that it should be implemented with immediate effect.
K.A. MITCHESON
College Secretary
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
DRESS CODE
1. Imperial College does not specify a dress code for its employees or students, except where there are health and safety or security concerns or where a job or placement requires a uniform or protective clothing to be worn.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
2. Health and safety requirements may mean that for certain tasks specific items of clothing such as overalls, face masks, protective clothing, etc must be worn.
SECURITY
3. For security reasons, all employees, students and visitors to the College’s premises must be readily identifiable. This means that Security, Reception and other staff and students should be able to identify a person on campus, usually by comparing their face to the photograph on their College Identity Card.
4. For this reason:
a. At all times while on campus staff, students and visitors must wear their College Identity Cards or visitors’ cards and these must be visible.
b. Clothing that obscures an individual’s face is not allowed on any of the College’s campuses, except when required for health and safety or work-related reasons. Motorcycle couriers must therefore remove their helmets before entering College buildings. Similarly, employees and students should refrain from wearing clothing which obscures the face such as a full or half veil, or hooded tops or scarves worn across the face.
5. College Security Staff have the right to ask individuals to identify themselves by comparison with their photograph on their ID card. Anyone who refuses permission for them to do so may be removed from the College’s premises.
JOB OR PLACEMENT REQUIREMENTS
6. A uniform may be required for particular tasks, either within the College or during placements with external organisations. Employees and students of the College will be required to comply with such requirements.
OFFENSIVE DRESS
7. Where it is perceived that a particular slogan or symbol is offensive (for example, obscene, racist, sexist or sectarian), the wearing of such slogans or symbols may be considered as a disciplinary offence and dealt with accordingly.
RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
8. The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations, which came into force in December 2003, mean that it is unlawful to discriminate against individuals because of their religion, religious belief or similar philosophical belief. Imperial College values the diversity of its staff and students and aims to create an environment where the cultural, religious and non-religious or similar philosophical beliefs of all are respected.
9. The College welcomes the variety of appearance brought by individual styles and choices. The wearing of items arising from particular cultural/ religious norms (including, for example, saris, turbans, skullcaps, hijabs, kippahs and clerical collars) is seen as part of this welcome diversity.
10. If the College’s Dress Code produces a conflict with an individual's religious belief, the individual’s line manager or the student’s supervisor will, with the aim of finding a satisfactory compromise, sympathetically consider the issue. Such consideration may include ensuring that a version of a uniform for women includes the option of wearing trousers. Similarly, if a uniform includes headwear then the wearing of turbans should not be prohibited unless there is an over-riding health and safety need.
11. There will be circumstances, such as in laboratories or on student placement visits, where it may be necessary to impose particular dress codes, for example for medical students on placement in NHS Trusts.
12. The health, safety and security of members of the College community must be the College’s prime consideration at all times. Where the health and safety or security of the person wearing the dress (or that of others) is compromised, it may be necessary to request that the person does not wear that dress or a particular aspect of it. This will be handled with sensitivity and the reasons for the request given.
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