Search tagged health and safety

Health and safety rep of the year awards highlight key work of union and our reps

Date

15 June 2016 11:00am

Location

Chelmsford and Norwich

Date

11 July 2015 11:00am–5:00pm

Location

Cambridge Professional Development Centre, Foster Road, Trumpington, Cambridge, CB2 9NL

More than 75% of school buildings in Britain contain asbestos. Are you at risk?

UNISON is relaunching a survey on stress to gauge the impact of austerity on members

UNISON is celebrating the sterling work of our health and safety reps with an awards ceremony to highlight what they do

Three UNISON members working in a care home received compensation totalling £60,000 after being attacked and assaulted by a service user

Employers must do more to support workers with cancer – that was the message at a UNISON health and safety fringe event at the union’s national delegate conference last week, as the union launched its campaign ‘cancer in the workplace’

Chef left permanently injured after fall at work

Date

4 – 6 September 2015

Location

Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG

This conference is the biggest safety rep conference in the UK, regularly attracting around 500 safety reps – almost half of them from UNISON

Date

22 – 23 October 2014

Location

Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, London, WC1H 9JE

Camden, London
During European Health and Safety Week, UNISON Camden branch will be holding a training day, with a particular focus on work-related stress

Labour conference vigil calls on government to fund research into mesothelioma

Four in 10 workers believe that work-related stress is not handled well by their employers

Thursday 24 April marks the first anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza, when 1,138 people lost their lives and 2,000 more were injured as the unsafe building collapsed

Health and safety failings to blame for library assistant’s chronic back pain