A responsible arrangement for education and research work includes compliance with the appropriate work and environmental regulations. Within the confines of his work, the students and scientists are liable for the consequences resulting from their work, including civil and criminal liabilities. Federal and other regulations will have to be adequately interpreted and applied to each case. As part of his responsibilities, the chancellor of the University Bonn offers these information via the Department for Safety and Environmental Protection (German only) to use. It remains the responsibility of the proper officers to take these information and apply them to their area of responsibility.

You can find further information on the this page: Safety Officer for computer science (Neubau)

In the institute for computer science, Guidelines for using the computers in the PC Pools are handed out to students, those are also available online.

• User Agreement
• Work- and fire-safety guidelines (German only)
• Guidelines for connecting electric devices (German only)
• Guidelines for workstations (German only)
• House rules for PC-Pools (German only)

The House rules for PC-Pools define general rules - smoking, drinking, eating: Smoking is prohibited in the building. Eating at drinking at the workstations is not permitted as well.
The Guidelines for connecting electric devices explains among other things, that electric devices are only to be used within the specified parameters. Any potential dangers for health or security are to be reported to the responsible offical at once..
Annoying ringtones and loud phone calls are disruptive to other users.. Cell phones should be muted or turned off, phone calls should be made outside of the PC pools.