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Organising for health and safety

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The TUC has produced a resource for use by branch safety officers, full time officers, and groups of safety representatives to help improve the organisation of health and safety in the workplace, recruit new safety representatives, and make safety committees more effective.

You will find a number of exercises that will help you develop the level of organisation within your workplace, and hopefully lead to an improvement in how you deal with health and safety issues. These exercises are not intended to be a training session. They are a tool to help develop practical proposals for improving health and safety organisation in the workplace.

Although you can go through these exercises on your own, they are designed to be worked through by a group of safety representatives or other union activists. Some unions combine the position of safety representatives and stewards, however these are different roles. Nevertheless the approach in this resource should work equally well regardless of whether they are safety representatives or combined safety representatives and stewards.

You will get the most out of these exercises if your branch brings a number of people together from the same workplace, or similar workplaces. Although most of the exercises are suitable for all types of workplaces, some will not be able to be used in small workplaces without modification. Where a branch has recognition in a number of different small workplaces then the safety representatives, or potential safety representatives can be brought together.

The resource is intended for workplaces where a trade union has recognition with the employer.

If you do these exercises as a group then you will need a facilitator, such as the branch education officer or your union full time officer. In each section there is afacilitators brief

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