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.

Cover of hazards magazine
The new issue of Hazards Magazine is out now

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.

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


The most recent documents available on this subject are:

Risks 471 - 28 August 2010

Health and safety newsletter 28 August 2010

PDF version available for download
27 August 2010
Risks 470 - 21 August 2010

Health and safety newsletter 21 August 2010

PDF version available for download
23 August 2010
Pre-employment medicals ruled out

The use of pre-employment medicals to weed out applicants on health grounds is to become illegal.

PDF version available for download
20 August 2010
Risks 469 - 14 August 2010

Health and safety newsletter 14.08.10

PDF version available for download
13 August 2010
Health and Safety course bulletin – Northern region

Safety reps courses in September in the Northern region - APPLY TODAY

13 August 2010
Companies should come clean on safety

Firms should be required by law to report their health and safety performance and any related enforcement action, the TUC has said.

PDF version available for download
6 August 2010



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