This webinar is for UNISON members interested in becoming more active on workplace health, safety and wellbeing issues. Work can be a major cause or contributor to poor mental health. Under health and safety law, your employer should be taking steps to tackle and prevent the causes of work-related stress. Come and find out more […]
Registration on the UNISON online conference system (OCS) for the 2022 UK Health and Safety Seminar at the Excel Centre in London’s Docklands is now officially open – Make sure you don’t miss it!
UNISON’s acting head of policy David Arnold explores the changes to work practices during the COVID-19 pandemic and asks what the future holds
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
The pandemic focused the world’s attention on health and safety. But for UNISON’s health and safety reps, protecting everyone in the workplace was already a way of life
As we approach International Workers’ Memorial Day, UNISON looks back at a year when workplace safety took centre stage
This short webinar is aimed at UNISON members thinking of taking the first steps to become more active in health and safety in the workplace. This includes finding out about the role of a UNISON Safety rep and what training and development is available. As more workers start to go back to workplaces in the […]
The union is highlighting the particular risk to vulnerable workers
A series of events, under the collective name of “Health & Safety Live”. These will include a number of speakers, including the new UNISON General Secretary, Christina McAnea, and Shelly Asquith, the TUC’s lead officer on health & safety. It will also include workshops and other interactive sessions These events will use a combination of […]
Christina McAnea has written to the defence secretary seeking urgent response
Unions seek urgent review of risk assessments to tackle new COVID-19 variant
Union writes to Health and Safety Executive urging updated guidelines to protect workers in light of new variant of coronavirus
High Court rules that zero-hours workers should have the same protection as others
Political pressure to approve substandard PPE does not bode well for HSE independence once the UK finally leaves the safety of the EU, says the union
