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This guide is for union reps - understanding coronavirus and workplace issues, employer negotiations and how best protect the workforce
Coronavirus - Guidance for unions
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How can unions protect workers from extreme temperatures?
Employers are responsible for providing a working environment that is reasonably practical, safe and without risks to health. Are workers in your workplace at risk? What can you do to protect them?
Reps Briefing
13 Jul 2022
Too hot, too cold: How to protect workers from extreme temperatures, and fight climate change
This interactive guide will help workplace reps protect workers from extreme temperatures, and fight climate change.
Interactive Guide
22 Jun 2022
Return to safe workplaces - resource for reps
If your employer is asking colleagues to return to work outside home, they must make sure it’s done safely. A Covid-19 risk assessment is essential. But how do you know your employer's doing the right things?
Interactive Guide
Cancer in the Workplace
Produced in partnership with Macmillian Cancer Support, this guide raised awareness of the impact of cancer in the workplace and how union reps can support member affected by cancer in the workplace.
Interactive Guide
20 May 2019
Work and suicide
Every year between 5,500 and 6,000 people in Britain end their own lives – well over three times the number of people who die on our roads. Unions can have a role to play in helping prevent suicides and supporting those who may have suicidal thoughts.
27 Feb 2019
Drug testing in the workplace
25 Feb 2019
Drugs and alcohol in the workplace
This guidance is intended to assist workplace reps in developing policies to deal with alcohol and drug problems in the workplace.
25 Feb 2019
Mental health in the workplace eNote
This eNote raises awareness of the impact of mental health issues in the workplace and how union reps can support members affected by issues associated with mental health.
20 Nov 2018
Diesel exhaust in the workplace
This guidance is intended to help union health and safety representatives get the health risks from diesel exhaust exposure to be controlled in the workplace.
26 Oct 2018
Musculoskeletal disorders - HSE material for health and safety reps
MSDs are preventable and the HSE has published a range of useful publications of tools that will help health and safety representatives work with their employer to reduce the levels of MSDs in their workplace.
30 Aug 2018
Mental health and the workplace
Mental health and the workplace is an increasingly important issue for trade unions. This workbook is for all workplace reps and helps to explain what they can do to support those in the workplace with mental health problems.
Reps Briefing
30 Aug 2018
Cool it! Reps guide on dealing with high temperatures in the workplace
A TUC guide for trade union activists on dealing with high temperatures in the workplace
23 Jul 2018
Safety representatives and safety committees
13 Mar 2015
Guide to Risks Assessments
13 Jul 2018
Fire Safety
13 Jul 2018
Work and wellbeing
This guide gives advice on the wide range of attempts being made to promote ‘well-being’ and as such does not cover the avoidance of injury and illness in traditional health and safety terms, as that information is freely available elsewhere. However, it will help reps tackle management when work and work practices are likely to be the cause of workforce ill health.
12 Jul 2018
Reporting issues to the HSE
01 Sep 2014
Being a Health and Safety Representative
A simple guide to what a health and safety rep role means.
22 Jul 2012
Pandemic Flu Guidance for Unions - TUC Guidance
01 Mar 2010
Tuberculosis - Guidance for safety representatives
11 Jun 2007
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