LTB 562/18 – TUC Health & Safety Guides and Reports for Health and Safety Reps:
No. 562/2018
2 October 2018
Our Ref: EX10/18
TUC Health & Safety Guides and Reports for Health and Safety Reps:
To: All Branches
Dear Colleagues,
The TUC produces a range of guides and reports for trade union safety reps.
In addition, guidance on most major issues can be found in the TUC/CWU “Hazards at Work” Manual – “Organising for safe and healthy workplaces”, the best-selling guide to health and safety at work.
For the information and assistance of CWU Health and Safety Reps, the full list of guides and reports the TUC has available are listed below with links:-
Guides and reports
- Asbestos (PDF, 9 pages)
- Behavioural Safety – A briefing for workplace representatives
- Being a Health and Safety Representative – a guide to what the role means
- Bullying
- The Case for Health and Safety
- Checking your Personal Protective Equipment (PDF, 3 pages)
- The Compensation Myth (PDF, 7 pages)
- Confidentiality and Medical records
- Drug Testing in the Workplace
- Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace
- Dust in the Workplace (PDF, 7 pages)
- Fatigue (PDF)
- Feet and Footwear (PDF, 6 pages)
- Fire Safety
- Flooding – advice for reps
- Gender and health and safety (PDF – includes checklist)
- In Sickness and in Health?: Good work – and how to achieve it (PDF, 20 pages)
- Industrial Injuries benefit (pdf)
- Inspections (PDF, 11 pages)
- Is my occupational provider accredited?
- ISO 45001 – Using the new health and safety standard in the workplace (PDF, 20 pages)
- Lone Working
- Maintenance in the workplace
- Medical referrals – is your doctor qualified?
- Migrant Workers (PDF, 12 pages)
- Noise at Work (PDF, 6 pages)
- Occupational Cancer – A Workplace Guide (PDF, 11 pages)
- Occupational hygiene – a guide for reps
- Older workers (PDF)
- Organising for Health and Safety: A Workplace Resource (PDF)
- Pandemic Flu (PDF, 9 pages)
- Personal Injury Claims – proposals for change (PDF, 12 pages)
- Preparing for the new ‘Fit Note’ (PDF, 9 pages)
- Promoting Health at Work
- Protecting health and safety after Brexit (pdf 14 pages)
- Reach (chemicals)
- Risk assessment (PDF, 16 pages)
- Health and Safety Myths – The truth behind the headlines
- Safety representatives – a charter for change (PDF, 20 pages)
- Safety representatives surveys:
- Safety representatives biennial survey 2018 (PDF, 40 pages)
- Safety representatives biennial survey 2016 (PDF, 42 pages)
- Safety representatives – biennial survey 2014 (PDF, 42 pages)
- Safety representatives -biennial survey 2012 (PDF, 42 pages)
- Safety representatives – biennial survey 2010 (PDF, 46 pages)
- Safety representatives – biennial survey 2008 (PDF, 50 pages)
- biennial survey 2006 (PDF, 48 pages),
- biennial survey 2004 (PDF, 52 pages)
- Skin Cancer and Outdoor Workers (PDF, 5 pages)
- Smoking (PDF, 14 pages)
- Stress (TUC guidance)
- Stress (joint guidance with HSE)
- Suicide and work: TUC guide
- Supporting women through the menopause (PDF)
- Temperature at Work – heat (PDF)
- The Government record on H&S (PDF)
- The Union Effect
- Time off for training (PDF)
- Toilet facilities
- Violence (HSE also has guidance on workplace violence)
- Women and PPE (PDF)
- Work and Well-being: A trade union resource
- Young workers (PDF, 6 pages )
Forms
Yours sincerely
Dave Joyce
National Health, Safety & Environment Officer
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