Everyone has the right to work in a
healthy, safe environment. Unite offers the latest training,
information and advice to representatives, members and
employers to ensure that best practice is followed, creating
healthier, safer working environments for everyone. For more
information on these areas, see the links below.
Locally Unite has around 10,000
safety reps that are supported by branches, regions and national
staff and resources. Safety reps deal with issues locally supported
by their senior workplace reps. If you have a health and safety
question and cannot find the answer in the links
below you should contact your safety rep, your
regional office or call
Membership Department on 020 8462 7755 to find out your regional
office contact details.
The Unite Health and Safety Unit is
led by Mike McCartney, with five Health and
Safety Advisers (Clare Baker, Bud Hudspith, Debbie
Hutchings, Rob Miguel and Andrea Przystupa) reporting to him.
The Safety Advisers lead on particular health & safety
policy issues, advise union officers and members, write safety
guidance, advise on various Industrial Advisory Committees and
liaise with Government and other public bodies. For all
T&G Section health and safety enquiries,information about
regular email updates, Susan Murray is Head of Health and
Safety for the T&G Section, based in the Holborn
office. She covers the whole range of health and safety
functions please telephone her on 0207 611 2596 or email
susan.murray@unitetheunion.orgTo contact the Unite Health and
Safety unit please e-mail
healthandsafety@unitetheunion.orgTo keep up to date on the latest
health and safety news and information join the Unite health and
safety e-mail circulation list by
clicking hereIt's a
well
established fact that unionised workplaces with active safety
reps are safer workplaces. Safety reps have
considerable rights to carry out their functions. Full details
can be found in
Safety
representatives and safety committees, also known
as the
Brown Book,
which can be downloaded
here.
More resources such as guidance on
what safety reps do, inspection checklists etc can be found
here.
If you become an Unite safety rep,
written notification must be given to your employer stating:
- The name of the
representative(s)
- The group of employees
represented
So
inform your Regional
Office of your appointment. They will write to your employer
for you and give you credentials in the form of a safety rep card.
Then:
Make sure you enrol on one of our
safety training courses, for which your employer is obliged to
give you paid release.
Join our health and safety news
email circulation list by
clicking here
Health and
Safety Policies
Health and safety related motions
from the 2007 Unite, Amicus Policy Conference can be found in
Decisions of Unite
Amicus Section Policy Conference 2007 (pdf,
397KB)
. These are on the 35 hour week
and working time (Composite 7, page 19), corporate manslaughter and
directors' duties (Composite 15, page 31), health and safety
(Composite 16, page 32), domestic health and safety (Motion 102,
page 53), asbestos legislation (Motion 103, page 53).
Previous years' health and safety policies can
be found here.
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