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Features contents - Safety reps training factsheet - HSE knows
you know the answer - When it comes to health and safety, your life should be in union hands - HSE knows you know the answer - Unions know-how on chemicals
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UNION SAFETY EFFECT FEATURES What gorilla? The resource-starved Health and Safety Executive can no longer investigate some of the most serious workplace injuries. Fatalities are rising. HSE needs help. It just doesn’t seem to see it. Hazards editor Rory O’Neill says not only is HSE failing, it is shunning its best possible ally – trade union safety reps. Hazards 99, August 2007 Union protection
A new TUC report confirms what Hazards has said all along - union
safety reps are your best defence against work-related accidents and ill-health.
 Safety
is better organisedWhen an official safety agency investigated what makes workplaces safer, it got a surprise. It was union safety reps — not managers, safety officers or inspectors — who made work safer. Plus more on the union effect from safety news from the UK and Australia.
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union, no protectionWhen it comes to workplace harm, hygienists might have a measure it and doctors a diagnosis for it, but only workers with collective power have much chance of doing anything about it. And there is no shortage of up-to-the-minute evidence demonstrating this "union safety effect." Organised workplaces are safer workplaces. No union, no protection, Hazards 78, April-June 2002 [pdf] TUC backs the Hazards union effect initiative  The
safety squadWorker Safety Advisers, selected and trained by unions and funded by the government, become the first UK union reps to have an officially sanctioned "roving" remit, and are now taking the union safety effect to non-union workplaces. The safety squad Hazards 78, April-June 2002 [pdf]
Safety Reps at work, Hazards 86, April - June 2004
HSE knows you know the answer, Hazards 77, January-March 2002 [this is a shitty old page and needs redesigning Employee involvement in health and safety: some examples of good practice, HSE Health and Safety Laboratory report 2001 [pdf] HSE publishes new research on how taking workers’ advice seriously can improve health and safety TUC comment, 21 December 2001
The union effect -El "efecto sindicato" Mucha gente piensa que la principal función de un sindicato es luchar por mejores condiciones de vida. A menudo, sin embargo, la batalla es más básica y los sindicatos luchan por la vida de los trabajadores. Por Experienca, n.21, Julio 2003 • More on Ardystil - Por experienca When it comes to health and safety, your life should be in union hands Many people think the labour movement is about fighting for a better standard of living. Frequently though the battle is more basic, reports Labour Education, the magazine of the ILO workers' bureau. The unions are fighting for their members' lives. When it comes to health and safety, your life should be in union hands Rory O'Neill, Labour Education, vol.126, April 2002 [pdf] Español: El sindicalismo, un medio de prevención [pdf] Français: Le syndicalisme comme moyen de prévention [pdf] Courses, courses TUC safety reps' training makes you so good you save lives Courses, courses Hazards 75, July-September 2002 [pdf]
What makes a rep work? Research shows how union education leads to effective health and safety reps What makes a rep work? Hazards 75, July-September 2002 [pdf] Organise! You slip, trip, fall. You are exposed to toxic chemicals. You lift, carry, you get strains. You are stressed to the eyeballs. All this and the law says you should be safe and healthy at work. Hazards looks at how safety reps can organise to close the reality gap on workplace safety.
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modern militancyFor years union negotiators have seen work organisation as a matter of organising shifts and work processes to maximise pay. Jon Richards of the UK public sector union UNISON says Europe's unions are now searching for solutions that improve all aspects of the working world, including health and safety. Thoroughly modern militancy, Hazards 73, January-March 2001 [pdf]
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what we bargained for The economy is buoyant, but we work harder for less pay. We know more about hazards and their control, but work-related stress, strains, depression and violence are soaring. We have never been more productive, and we are rewarded with temporary contracts, long hours and back breaking workloads. Hazards lists the top 20 questions union reps should ask on workplace change and gives pointers on a better way to work.
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know-how on chemicals Officially backed research found 90 per trade union reps understand the principles of chemical safety laws and almost 80 per cent know about chemical safety limits. By contrast, a third of companies using hazardous substances have no knowledge of the relevant law and two-thirds are unaware of their legal duties on chemical safety limits. Unions know-how on chemicals Hazards 60, October-December 1997
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safety repsIt is two decades since the first trade union safety reps appeared in British workplaces. Research suggests safety reps have during those two decades helped prevent 2.5 million serious workplace injuries. Workplaces with a full union safety structure are twice as safe as those without. It is no wonder workers want union protection at work. Super safety reps Hazards 64, October-December 1998
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