Everyone has the right to work in a healthy, safe environment.
Unite offers the latest training, information and
advice to representatives, members and employers to ensure
that best practice is followed, creating healthier, safer working
environments for everyone. For more information on these areas, see
the links below.
Click below for
HEALTH AND SAFETY INFORMATION, RESOURCES AND
ADVICE
Contact the Unite Health and Safety
unit
To contact the Unite Health and Safety unit please e-mail
healthandsafety@unitetheunion.org
Please quote your membership number, if possible, with all
enquiries.
Join the Unite health and safety
e-mail circulation list
To keep up to date on the latest health and safety news and
information join the Unite health and safety e-mail circulation
list by
clicking here
Unite Health and safety structure
Locally Unite has around 10,000 safety reps that are supported
by branches, regions and national staff and resources. Safety reps
deal with issues locally supported by their senior workplace reps.
If you have a health and safety question and cannot find the
answer in the links below you should contact
your safety rep, your regional office or
call Membership Department on 020 8462 7755 to find out your
regional office contact details.
The Unite national Health and safety service is delivered
by Bud Hudsptih, Susan Murray and Clare Baker. They lead on
particular health & safety policy issues, advise union officers
and members, write safety guidance, advise on various Industrial
Advisory Committees and liaise with Government and other public
bodies.
They can be contacted as follows:
Susan Murray, 020 7611 2596 email: susan.murray@unitetheunion.org
Bud Hudspith, 07881 588917 email: bud.hudspith@unitetheunion.org
Information for new health and safety
representatives
Are you a new rep or a safety rep without a safety rep card? If
so, read on…
It's a well
established fact that unionised workplaces with active safety
reps are safer workplaces. Safety reps have considerable
rights to carry out their functions. Full details can be found
in Safety
representatives and safety committees, also known
as the Brown Book,
which can be downloaded here.
The Unite Health and Safety guide can be downloaded
here
More resources such as guidance on what safety reps do,
inspection checklists etc can be found
here.
If you become an Unite safety rep, written notification must be
given to your employer stating:
The name of the representative(s)
The group of employees represented
So inform
your Regional Office of your appointment. They will write to
your employer for you and give you credentials in the form of a
safety rep card.
Then:
Make sure you enrol on one of our
safety training courses, for which your employer is obliged to
give you paid release.
Join our health and safety news email circulation list by
clicking here
International work
Click here for details of international union federations that
Unite is affiliated to.
