Following the UKHSA and Met Office issuing a new warnings system for health impacts due to extreme heat, the following information has been update to help provide members with an additional understand of how this relates to their work.
UNISON call for more inspection and enforcement of workplace health and safety as results of a new survey are released
Do you work in an office or a fixed workplace for a smaller charity or non-profit organisation and want to find out how to ensure your workplace is safe? Do you have questions on Covid safety when working in the office or safety concerns with home working? Join Kim Sunley, UNISON’s Health and Safety Officer […]
A UNISON health and safety webinar that will look at the key elements of seeking to ensure that health and safety are embedded into working on campus in higher education.
This webinar is for UNISON members interested in becoming more active on workplace health, safety and wellbeing issues. Working alone, whether out in the community or in a work building has become more widespread and can put members’ safety at risk. Employers have a duty to ensure you are kept safe. Join the webinar […]
This webinar is for UNISON members interested in becoming more active on workplace health, safety and wellbeing issues. The 18th October is World Menopause day, come and find out why the menopause is a workplace health and safety issue and what employers should do to support members. This webinar will also explore how you can […]
The theme of this year’s week of Safety and Health is ‘Lighten the Load’, to mark the week UNISON is running a webinar for health and safety representative on reducing the risk of work related musculoskeletal disorders. We will be joined by a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Specialist Inspector in Ergonomics who will go […]
This webinar is for UNISON members interested in becoming more active on workplace health, safety and wellbeing issues. Work can be a major cause or contributor to poor mental health. Under health and safety law, your employer should be taking steps to tackle and prevent the causes of work-related stress. Come and find out more […]
As always this is a very popular event, whilst some public health measures have been removed across the UK, as members and activists are playing a pivotal role in […]
Our August 2021 health and safety newsletter is out now! Inside: Working from home, Flexible working, Reasonable adjustments, Ill-health retirement and local government pensions, Rep support
UNISON’s acting head of policy David Arnold explores the changes to work practices during the COVID-19 pandemic and asks what the future holds
Our online health and safety course is essential for new health and safety representatives in the Eastern region. This blended course combines online educational materials and opportunities for interaction online and is delivered by experienced TUC tutors. What will the course help me to do? Understand the health and safety rep role; Carry out the […]
Our online health and safety course is essential for new health and safety representatives in the Eastern region. This blended course combines online educational materials and opportunities for interaction online and is delivered by experienced TUC tutors. What will the course help me to do? What will the course help me to do? Understand […]
If only the Westminster government could show some of the responsibility it wants the rest of us to take on
Employers must do more to keep staff safe and that includes properly recording exposure
