Health and safety
Welcome to our Eastern Region Health and Safety site
Cameron: don't play politics with social workers' health and safety - The Big Picture
RSI - latest Newsletter - see Related Documents
The HSE is conducting a Shattered Lives Survey as they want to know what you think of their shattered lives web pages.
To tell them what you think of the Shattered Lives website, go online now, complete a short survey and have your say
The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) - Public Meeting to be held in Manchester - 24th June 2010 - see advert and agenda in Related Documents
We are working in the Eastern Region to ensure that our members are protected in their places of work. Health and Safety reps from all service groups meet quarterly for to focus UNISON work on this in the Region.
Surveys have shown that health and safety is the most important workplace issue identified by UNISON members. Our latest campaigns are:
- Stress in the Workplace
- Bullying and Harassment
- Violence in the workplace
It is a fact that unionised workplaces are safer than non-unionised
Remember health at work is right not a luxury
Every year our members regularly face hazards at work including violence, stress, back and other injuries and slips, trips and falls.
UNISON has more Health and Safety reps than any other trade union and we are working hard to ensure we keep them fully up to date. Once a year we have a 2 day Health and Safety Seminar open to all Health and Safety reps in the Region. Our last one was in September 2010 and we are just about to send some posters to branches to help them raise awareness in the workplace. We will post them here soon!
Health & Safety - Could you do it ?
The importance of the health and safety representative in the work place is growing. As new technology and business processes are introduced into the work place, then the role of the health and safety representative becomes more important. see more ...
Health & Safety Rep Courses Part I and Part II
Health & Safety Officer course
Course calendar Course Application form
Initiative launched to encourage quieter workplaces - see related documents
Tories propose 'scoundrels' charter' to tackle workers' safety - see related documents
Safety in Numbers - UNISON taking your Health & Safety seriously - presentation - see link
Tories play politics with workers' lives - see Related documents
David Cameron made a speech to the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange -see Related documents.
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Related Documents
- H&S Could you do it? (Word, 30Kb)
- H&S RSI Conf (PDF, 140Kb)
- H&S RSI Reg form (PDF, 161Kb)
- H&S Workplace temp (Word, 27.5Kb)
- H&S Workplace temp Questionnaire (Excel, 57Kb)
- HS - David Cameron speech think tank policy exchange (PDF, 9Kb)
- HS - Tories propose 'scoundrel's charter' (PDF, 9Kb)
- HSE Quieter Workplace (PDF, 37Kb)
- IIAC - advert (PDF, 19Kb)
- IIAC Agenda (PDF, 7Kb)
- RSI Newsletter June 2010 (PDF, 530Kb)
- Safety in Numbers (PDF, 91Kb)