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A new survey will help your union to understand the problem and guide work on it

Schools and early years settings have the authority and responsibility to take whatever steps they deem […]

Unloading pallets of copper tubing from the truck with a forklift, Terry was on the last one, when “the driver came out of the office with his paperwork […]

Parliamentary work and pensions committee calls for a 40-year deadline for the safe removal of all asbestos in public buildings

Union says that government’s ‘potentially dangerous’ Living with COVID-19 plans could undermine health and safety regulations in England

Even as COVID restrictions loosen, health and safety legislation must still be followed and risks to employees minimised

Move comes as cases of the Omicron variant soar and HSE figures reveal the scale of the pandemic impact on workers’ health

Red (emergency response): A red alert indicates significant risk to life for even the healthy population. (Reproduced from UKHSA User guide-New impact-based Weather-Health […]

UNISON national officer for health and safety Kim Sunley says: “The survey paints an alarming picture of a lack of effective […]

This has sparked a widespread debate about the future of work, asking, for instance, whether the wider use of digital technology and working from home are here to stay and […]

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

Whatever the actual numbers, both UNISON and the TUC support the fact that the formal HSE reporting of work-related deaths and injuries is grossly under-reported. Work itself does […]

As we approach International Workers’ Memorial Day, UNISON looks back at a year when workplace safety took centre stage

The union is highlighting the particular risk to vulnerable workers