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:

Workers are taking less time off sick than ever

Commenting on the latest figures on sickness absence in the workplace, published today (Tuesday) by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

15 May 2012
The costs of workplace health

Throughout the country local events took place on Saturday to commemorate Workers Memorial Day, an annual event where trade unions, safety campaigners and progressive politicians highlight workplace health and safety under the slogan 'remember the de...

30 April 2012
1,600 people in the South West died as a result of work last year.

Trade unionists in the South West will on Saturday hold a minute's silence to commemorate the more than 1,600 people in the region who died in the last twelve months as a result of their work......

25 April 2012
Defend health and safety Day of Action, 28 April 2012 - Bulletin 5

In this issue: The benefits of union health and safety representatives; How they make a difference; Role of representatives under this government; What you can do!

PDF version available for download
3 April 2012
Workers' Memorial Day 2012 – North West Region

Our health and safety is under attack and we must defend it! Workers' Memorial Day this year falls on a Saturday 28 April so the TUC is calling for a day of action to defend health and safety. North West trade unions, safety campaigners and the TUC w...

27 March 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...

26 March 2012



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