About Safety NW

The TUC campaigns for safer workplaces and helps unions and health and safety reps tackle problems at work. The TUC strongly supports the role that safety reps can play in creating better health and safety standards.

Safety studies reveal that serious accident and ill health levels are lower in unionised workplaces. You are twice as likely to be injured in a non-union workplace.

From their earliest days, trade unions have treated health and safety at work as one of their concerns. Today, unions bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to workplace safety:

• Unions offer expertise and legal support to those facing work-related ill health or injury.
• They are represented at the highest levels, for example, on the Health and Safety Commission and government health and safety advisory bodies.
• Union safety research has a long history of influencing new safety legislation.
• Unions work to improve day-to-day workplace safety standards.

The key to all this is the work carried out by the thousands of trades union safety reps. Without them work would be much more dangerous and with them workers can look forward to greater protection and healthier and safer workplaces.

This web site has been established by the TUC in the North West to support union safety representatives, to give easy access to advice and information and to provide a forum for the exchange of information and experience with other safety reps.

Links

For health and safety news from the TUC check out - http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/index.cfm

Or sign up for our regular e bulletin “Risks”

Hazards magazine provides comprehensive information for safety reps and is supported by the TUC and is available on line.

You can also register for UNIONREPS the web portal for all trade union reps, from the TUC - http://www.unionreps.org.uk/login.cfm

Greater Manchester Hazard Centre

Centre for Corporate Accountability

Hazards & Labour Start Newswire

Work and Health Information Gateway

For information on the TUC in the North West click on - http://www.unionsnw.org.uk/