9 – 13 March 2020
Guildford Regional Office
This course is aimed at newly elected and less experienced Health & Safety reps organising at a local level and incorporates Risk Assessment training.
This course will help you:
- Find out more about your role as a UNISON Health & Safety rep
- Practice the skills you will need
- Develop your confidence to represent your members effectively
- Understand your employer’s key responsibilities for health and safety at work
- Understand the law relating to health and safety at work
- Show an awareness of the risks in the workplace
- Understand the key legal requirements concerning risk assessments and the criteria used
- Be familiar with the UNISON approach to risk assessments
- Understand how risk assessments can be used as part of a workplace strategy for improving the health, safety and welfare of their members
- Develop a risk assessment resource pack for use in the workplace and union