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Keeping safe at work: a lunch-and-learn event for UNISON members working in smaller charities and non-profit organisations

Date
21 October 2021 12:30pm–1:30pm
Location
Zoom

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 […]

Event on the UNISON National site.

Health and safety: a safe return to campus

Date
14 October 2021 1:30pm–3:00pm
Location
webinar

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.

Event on the UNISON National site.

Be On The Safe Side: Personal safety and lone working

Date
6 December 2021 2:00pm–3:00pm
Location
Online webinar

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 […]

Event on the UNISON National site.

Be On The Safe Side: Menopause and workplace health and safety

Date
18 October 2021 2:00pm–3:00pm
Location
Online 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 […]

Event on the UNISON National site.

Reducing the Risk of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders

Date
27 October 2021 12:30pm–2:00pm
Location
Online webinar

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 […]

Event on the UNISON National site.

Be On The Safe Side: Work related stress and mental health

Date
1 November 2021 2:00pm–3:00pm
Location
Online webinar

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 […]

Event on the UNISON National site.

2022 Health and Safety Seminar

Date
24 May 2022 9:00am–5:00pm
Location
ExCel Centre, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL

Registration on the UNISON online conference system (OCS) for the 2022 UK Health and Safety Seminar at the Excel Centre in London’s Docklands is now officially open – Make sure you don’t miss it!

Event on the UNISON National site.

Health and safety matters

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

Article, News on the UNISON Eastern site.

The post-pandemic world of work

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

Behind the headlines, Magazine on the Magazine site.

Health and safety reps online (five weeks from 18 November 2021)

Date
18 November 2021 1:00am

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 […]

Event on the UNISON Eastern site.

Health and Safety Reps online (from 14 September)

Date
14 September 2021 2:00am

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 […]

Event on the UNISON Eastern site.

Blog: Wilfully sowing the seeds of masked confusion

If only the Westminster government could show some of the responsibility it wants the rest of us to take on

General Secretary, General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.

Too many people across the UK face serious health risks

Employers must do more to keep staff safe and that includes properly recording exposure

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Regional Health and Safety Forum 2021

Date
24 – 25 September 2021
Location
Croyde Bay

Join us at Croyde Bay as we host the first in-person Health and Safety Forum since 2019. We’ll have interactive workshops, guest speakers and more. The agenda will be confirmed closer to the time. Delegate Price UNISON members can attend free of charge with the £152 delegate price being met by your local branch. Branches […]

Event on the UNISON North West site.

Regional Health and Safety Forum 2021

Date
24 – 25 September 2021
Location
Croyde Bay

Join us at Croyde Bay as we host the first in-person Health and Safety Forum since 2019. We’ll have interactive workshops, guest speakers and more. The agenda will be confirmed closer to the time. Delegate Price UNISON members can attend free of charge with the £152 delegate price being met by your local branch. Branches […]

Event on the UNISON South West site.