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Guides and reports for reps
The TUC produces a range of guides and reports for safety representatives and others. A number of the more recent ones appear below. In addition guidance on most major issues can be found in the TUC book "Hazards at Work: Organising for safe and healthy workplaces", the best-selling guide to health and safety at work. To buy a copy order here (if you are a safety representative on a TUC training course please speak to your tutor about getting a discounted copy)
- Asbestos (PDF, 9 pages)
- Behavioural Safety - A briefing for workplace representatives
- Bullying
- The Case for Health and Safety
- Checking your Personal Protective Equipment (PDF, 3 pages)
- The Compensation Myth (PDF, 7 pages)
- Confidentiality and Medical records
- Drug Testing in the Workplace
- Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace
- Dust in the Workplace (PDF, 7 pages)
- Feet and Footwear (PDF, 6 pages)
- Gender and health and safety (PDF, 5 pages)
- In Sickness and in Health?: Good work - and how to achieve it (PDF, 20 pages)
- Inspections (PDF, 11 pages)
- Lone Working
- Maintenance in the workplace
- Medical referrals - is your doctor qualified?
- Migrant Workers (PDF, 12 pages)
- Noise at Work (PDF, 6 pages)
- Occupational Cancer - A Workplace Guide (PDF, 11 pages)
- Organising for Health and Safety: A Workplace Resource (PDF, 32 pages)
- Organising for Health and Safety: What makes health and safety a good organising issue? (PDF, 24 pages)
- Pandemic Flu (PDF, 9 pages)
- Personal Injury Claims – proposals for change (PDF, 12 pages)
- Preparing for the new 'Fit Note' (PDF, 9 pages)
- Promoting Health at Work
- Reach (chemicals)
- Risk assessment (PDF, 16 pages)
- Health and Safety Myths – The truth behind the headlines
- Safety representatives – a charter for change (PDF, 20 pages)
- Safety representatives - biannual survey 2012 (PDF, 42 pages)
Safety representatives – bi-annual survey 2010 (PDF, 46 pages) Safety representatives – bi-annual survey 2008 (PDF, 50 pages) bi-annual survey 2006 (PDF, 48 pages), bi-annual survey 2004 (PDF, 52 pages)
- Skin Cancer and Outdoor Workers (PDF, 5 pages)
- Smoking (PDF, 11 pages)
- Stress
- Temperature at Work - Heat
- The Union Effect
- Toilet facilities
- Work and Well-being: A trade union resource
- Young workers (PDF, 6 pages)
The most recent documents available on this subject are:
Occupational Cancer - A Workplace GuideThis booklet primarily deals with cancers caused through exposures that are a result of work.
PDF version available for download
Guidance for union health and safety representatives This new guidance outlines the case for stronger action against dust and shows that the current standards used for the assessment of dust exposure in the workplace are totally inadequate. This...
PDF version available for downloadA new TUC report published today (Tuesday) reveals that more than 20,000 people in the UK are killed prematurely by their work every year. The Case for Health and Safety smashes the myth that Britain is one of the safest places to work and demonstrat...
Report reveals that 20,000 people in the UK are killed prematurely by their work every year.
PDF version available for downloadMaintenance work can be hazardous. Although it is estimated that 6% of the working population are involved in maintenance work (not always all the time), it is estimated that, throughout Europe, between 15 and 20% of injuries at work happen during ma...
PDF version available for downloadGuidance for Workplace Representatives
PDF version available for download
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