Health and Safety

TUC spells health and safety

It took union campaigns to deliver the comprehensive health and safety legislation that the UK workforce enjoys.

But it takes union know how, resources and campaigns to make workplaces as safe as possible. That's why TUC and unions provide high calibre resources and training for trade union safety reps.

These union reps are the reason union workplaces are safer workplaces. This website is part of TUC's work to ensure union safety reps have the information and resources to continue and to improve that work

Sign up for Risks, the TUC's e-mail bulletin on health and safety. You'll get Health and Safety news from the TUC and the unions direct.

In 2012 the TUC is calling on health and safety representatives, trades councils and safety campaigners to make 28th April (Workers Memorial Day) a day of action to defend health and safety from the attacks on regulation, enforcement, cuts and refusal to tackle the massive toll that health and safety breaches take on workers. Our health and our safety is under attack like never before and we must defend it, for our sake and that of future generations.
For more information and resources click here

Hazards at Work online

The  chapters on individual risks from the TUC publication "Hazards at Work" are now available on-line. To access them click on a subject on the left of this page and if there is a corresponding chapter available then you can access it through the orange box that appears on the page

TUC Survey on Personal Protective Equipment

The TUC is conducting an on-line survey among workers that use Personal Protective Equipment. We want to find out whether employers are supplying it and who is paying for it.
Remember PPE is not just safety boots and hard hats, it can include overalls, aprons, hats, sunscreen, etc.
The survey is very simple to fill in and should not take more than a couple of minutes. Click here to take part https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TUCPPE

 


The most recent documents available on this subject are:

Occupational Cancers - the figures

Briefing for activists.

PDF version available for download
1 February 2012
The Impact of Public Spending Cuts

Trade Union Safety Reps are invited to attend a health and safety training day which will include: an asbestos update including a report on the Employers Insurance Liability Bureau (EILB); organsing health and safety events leading up to Workers' Mem...

27 January 2012
Defend health and safety Day of Action, 28 April 2012 - Bulletin 2

The need for enforcement. What the government is proposing; The myth of low risk; Are businesses over-inspected? ...

PDF version available for download
24 January 2012
Defend health and safety Day of Action, 28th April 2012 - Bulletin 1

This briefing outlines what the Government are doing with health and safety regulations and why strong simple regulations are needed.

PDF version available for download
23 January 2012
Workers' Memorial Day and TUC Day of Action to defend health and safety - 28 April 2012

In 2012 the TUC is calling on health and safety representatives, trades councils and safety campaigners to make 28th April a day of action to defend health and safety from the attacks on regulation, enforcement, cuts and refusal to tackle the mass...

17 January 2012
A practical reference work in one volume for all union reps

This manual provides practical advice for trade union workplace reps on issues they are likely to encounter in dealing with a range of problems that can arise in the workplace.

16 January 2012



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