FAQs

Your office will be cleaned once a week by the cleaning team, employees should keep a clear desk to ensure a thorough cleaning of work surfaces. For additional safety we recommend that all staff regularly wipe down their personal work areas and frequently touched objects with sanitising wipes (i.e. workstations/desks, keyboards and telephones).  

See also number 4 on Cleaning Services 

  
If you have a medical issue and you need a specific chair or desk you need to arrange to have your workstation assessed. Each Unit should have a local staff member available as a Display Screen Equipment/Computer Assessor. The process and list of relevant staff are on the Health & Safety website.  

If a medical condition is highlighted as part of this assessment you should forward the assessment to Human Resources at employee.relations@universityofgalway.ie and copy Buildings & Estates Helpdesk buildingsandestates@universityofgalway.ie  

Human Resources will contact you in relation to scheduling an appointment with the  Occupational Health Physician (OHP).  

Recommendations will be implemented by Buildings & Estates. 

Agency Staff  

To purchase/renew your monthly parking permit click on Online Payments System and choose "Visitor Permit". Once payment has been approved you will be notified by email and can then proceed to the payment stage.  

Contractors  

Parking must be paid for at all times while on campus.  In order to park on campus you must notify your NUI Galway contact that you will be arriving on campus and specify the duration of your stay by using the following link Online Payments System and choose the "Contractor Permit" option. Once payment has been approved you will be notified by email and can then proceed to the payment stage.  

Job Sharing  

It is not possible to get a "half-permit." All permits are valid from 1 September to 31 August.  Where you have a short term contract you may consider using the Pay and Display facilities instead of purchasing a visitor permit.  

• There are different types of spaces on campus; please find out which is which before you travel.  
• We value your visit to the University, and your meeting here may be of strategic importance to the Unit or Discipline you are visiting/assisting, but the rules are there for a reason and we cannot allow you to park in contravention of the rules, regardless of how important your visit is.   
• Staff must park in staff designated spaces and students must park in student designated spaces.  Both staff and students can park in areas which are zoned as shared (see Maps for details).  
• If you park in a Pay & Display (“P&D”) space, you must buy a ticket from the nearby machines or use the Pay by Phone option and display your ticket on your dashboard face up, regardless of what other type of permit you might have.  
• If you buy a P&D ticket, you can only park in spaces marked “P&D/Í&T”, marked also with blue lines. If you park anywhere else, even with a valid P&D ticket, you will be clamped.  
• If you have bought a P&D ticket and it runs out, you may be clamped, regardless of circumstances, so please renew your ticket if it is about to expire.  
• Only park in marked spaces – please do not think that where you have parked is ‘out of the way and not obstructing anyone’. Do not park on footpaths, landscaping, double yellow lines or in yellow boxes and do not obstruct fire exits.  
• If you have a valid Conference Permit you are permitted to park only in the car park referred to on the front of the permit during the dates specified. This permit does not allow you to park in a Pay & Display (“P&D”) space without displaying a valid P&D ticket.  
• If you park in a universally accessible bay you must display a 'blue badge' permit issued by the IWA or a valid Staff or Student Temporary Disability permit.  
• Do not display a note in your window explaining why you have parked illegally. The clampers have been instructed to ignore such notes, which do not count as valid parking permits  
• Use a loading bay only if you are actively involved in the loading or unloading of equipment. They are not parking spaces.