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The branch has a Health & Safety Committee comprising branch officers and reps from stewards committees. Its job is to oversee health and safety issues, to advise stewards committees and officers, to support health and safety reps and to campaign on health and safety issues.
Shop Stewards are encouraged to be safety reps as well, although there is also a parallel system where members can be elected or appointed purely as safety reps. They have a statutory role and extensive training is available via UNISON and TUC courses.
Safety reps would typically monitor health and safety in the workplace, carry out inspections and ensure proper risk assessments are carried out. Support comes from the health and safety committee and from an extensive database held in the branch office on health and safety legislation and regulations.
Departments should have joint management/union health and safety committees but not all have.
The role of health and safety is becoming more crucial as staff reduce and pressure and stress increase.
Click here for Health and Safety annual report.
Latest Health and Safety Issues
Look out here for major issues or recently discovered risks.