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Health and safety resources

Online catalogue
UNISON produces lots of free guides, pamphlets, leaflets, and posters on health and safety for members and for activists. You can download UNISON health and safety resources as PDF files or order many of the publications by post.

Health and Safety information sheets
These give detailed information and negotiating advice on hazards, covering a wide range of topics from Asbestos to Smoking in the Workplace.

Health & Safety Organiser
The most important source of health and safety information for H&S reps and officers. The Organiser comes out every two months and gives up-to-date information on health and safety issues and includes a one-page special feature covering a topical health and safety issue.

Health & Safety guides
Cover a wide range of topics from Safer Driving at Work to Sickness Absence Control Measures. These are also available direct from the Health and Safety Unit.

Health & Safety leaflets and posters
Aimed at all members on everything from women's health and safety in the workplace to smoking at work and reporting hazards.

Health & Safety Bulletins
Sent direct to branch H&S officers. Supplements which may have been sent out with the original bulletin will not normally be included in PDF format here.

Health & Safety Reports

Organising for Health & Safety pack
This new pack suggests ways in which branches can review their effectiveness on health and safety issues. It encourages the development of a realistic action plan for recruiting and developing health and safety reps. The pack is designed to be used alongside the branch development and organisation tool kit.

Hazards magazine
UNISON members qualify for a special union discount price for Hazards, the UK's leading quarterly H&S magazine. For more information, go to Link to an external websitewww.hazards.org or email: sub@hazards.org or write to: Hazards, PO Box 199, Sheffield S1 4YL.

List of resources
A complete list of health and safety materials can be found in the Link to a document on this siteHealth & Safety Publications Information Sheet available from the Documents Database. Branch Secretaries can order copies of health and safety publications from the Link to another page on this siteOnline Publicity Catalogue.
CONTACT DETAILS
• For urgent help and advice at work to go Help at Work.
• UNISON's Health and Safety Unit researches policies and issues briefings on hazards, standards and good practice.
UNISON Health and Safety Unit
1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
Email: healthandsafety@unison.co.uk
Information exchange
We currently have requests for information on various issues, please contact us if you can help or if there is a request for information that you would like to make.
Advice
UNISON health & safety reps and officers who need specialist advice can get support from their branch.
Branch secretaries can contact regional officers for help where necessary.
To find out more about training courses on health and safety issues, get in touch with your regional education officer.
National H&S news

Remember the dead, fight for the living

(28/04/08) MPs urged to make Workers Memorial Day a national day of remembrance

Former employers pay up for asbestosis

(21/01/08) 79 year old UNISON ex-joiner wins compensation of £25,000

Tougher enforcement needed to tackle health and safety "crimewave"

(20/11/07) Unions call for more inspections and higher fines

Action needed to halt assaults on NHS staff

(08/11/07) UNISON calls for national record to reveal full extent of problem

Ban bullying at work

(07/11/07) All workers have the right to be treated with dignity and respect, says UNISON
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