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

Red warning heatwave – advice for schools and early years settings The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has increased the heat-health alert for England to level 4 – the highest possible, and the Met Office has issued  the first ever red warning for large parts of England for Monday and Tuesday (with an amber warning in place for other areas – please […]

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

Good ventilation and fresh air are essential measures, not only for reducing the risk of transmission of COVID-19, but other winter respiratory viruses. UNISON […]

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

Following the UKHSA and Met Office issuing a new warnings system for health impacts due to extreme heat, the following information has been update to help provide members with an additional understand of how this relates to their work.

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 […]

The union has continued to grow throughout the pandemic, particularly in schools and the social care sector, while there has also been an increase in the number of trained safety […]

The union is highlighting the particular risk to vulnerable workers