Health & safety factsheets
30 March 2007
An extensive range of fact sheets specifically for 瓜神网 health and safety reps as well as examples of good practice, checklists and other useful tools.
Rights for safety reps
Reps rights & basic information
Employers' duties
Downloads and practical information
Information resourcesSpecific issues
Accidents, injury, illness
In the workplace
Being online
Substances
Equipment
Facilities
Driving at work
Rights for safety reps
Reps rights & basic information
Why you should be a 瓜神网 safety representative [104kb]
Why you should be a 瓜神网 safety representative [150kb]Introductory note setting out legal minima and 瓜神网 summary role for safety reps:
Facilities & assistance for 瓜神网 safety reps - 瓜神网 factsheet [127kb]Workload reps:
It's your time: legal rights and employer duties [119kb]-
10-point plan: statutory time off for safety reps functions - 瓜神网 factsheet [63kb]
10-point plan: statutory time off for safety reps functions - 瓜神网 factsheet [127kb] A summary of safety reps right to operate effectively, get information, and enforce safety requirements:
Safety reps鈥� functions, facilities and time off - 瓜神网 factsheet [165kb]
Health & safety rep functions [278kb]
Health & safety rep functions [142kb]-
How many health and safety reps should there be? - 瓜神网 factsheet [161kb] - summarises how to respond to an employer refusal to have sufficient safety reps
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Should we represent non members? - 瓜神网 health and safety factsheet [159kb] - explains why 瓜神网 safety reps speak on behalf of all staff and why no parallel set of non-union safety reps is necessary
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Conducting a workplace inspection: checklists - 瓜神网 factsheet [144kb]
Employers' duties
Summary of the legal duty of employers to provide paid time off for safety reps:
Paid time-off for 瓜神网 safety reps - 瓜神网 factsheet [125kb]The legal minima and good practice for consultation:
Consultation with 瓜神网 safety reps - 瓜神网 factsheet [47kb]The legal minima employers must meet when safety reps seek to be appointed:
The appointment of trade union safety representatives - 瓜神网 factsheet [163kb]-
Safety representatives: shifting the emphasis to employer duties - 瓜神网 factsheet [147kb]
What safety committees should be, who is on them and what they must discuss:
Safety committees - 瓜神网 factsheet [167kb]What employers are required to have in a workplace safety policy:
Safety policies - 瓜神网 factsheet [165kb]-
Checking your employer has made a RIDDOR report - 瓜神网 factsheet [71kb]
Employers are legally required to ensure that people who have health, safety and welfare responsibilities in the workplace are competent:
Competent persons for health and safety - 瓜神网 factsheet [153kb]
Downloads and practical information
See also: Workload campaign
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Workplace inspection - using and developing checklists [145kb]
Against the backdrop of Covid-19 瓜神网 Wales have produced a tool kit to assist branch health and safety reps when planning to
carry out risk assessments [313kb].-
Risk assessment: a brief guide to putting it all together, Oct 15 [178kb]
Downloadable letters for accreditation and confirmation as safety reps:
Accreditation and confirmation letters for 瓜神网 safety reps [246kb]Planning and following up an inspection:
It鈥檚 your time: workload inspections [106kb]A useful pro forma to download:
Workplace inspection report form [109kb]A useful way of checking what progress you are, or are not, making:
Well organised or what? - health check your institution [175kb]-
Sample union inspection notice for safety reps [25kb] - downloadable form for a UNIVERSITY
Stress management standards and working groups:
It's your time: joint working groups [86kb]
Information resources
A fairly detailed summary of what a risk assessment is, employers' obligations, what they should cover and who does them:
Risk assessment: how does it work? - 瓜神网 factsheet [64kb]-
Sources of information for Health and Safety Reps [178kb]
Sources of information for health and safety reps [174kb] The legal framework:
Introduction to workplace inspections - 瓜神网 factsheet [164kb]This factsheet summarises the guidance issued to HSE Inspectors about their responsibility to contact trade union safety representatives when they visit a workplace:
HSE inspectors and 瓜神网 safety reps - 瓜神网 factsheet [158kb]-
Extending safety representatives' rights: union inspection notices - 瓜神网 factsheet [298kb]
An explanation of a Union Inspection Notice - an idea 瓜神网 supports:
Health and safety breach: union inspection notice [148kb]
Specific issues
Accidents, injury, illness
Covid-19 - see 瓜神网 coronavirus advice
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Fit for work assessments: bullet points for branches [147kb]
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Sickness absence: the Bradford Factor - 瓜神网 factsheet [147kb]
Sickness absence: the Bradford Factor - 瓜神网 factsheet [157kb] -
Fit notes - a 瓜神网 briefing [120kb]
Fit notes - a 瓜神网 briefing [190kb] -
Home visits - 瓜神网 factsheet [175kb]
Home visits - 瓜神网 factsheet [99kb] -
Slips and falls - 瓜神网 factsheet [121kb]
Slips and falls - 瓜神网 factsheet [154kb]
Bullying and harassment - an online toolkit containing guidance, poster and model agreements, letters and surveys
see also: Being onlineStress toolkit - an online toolkit containing guidance, agreements and model forms and questionnaires
Guidance on a problem that is likely to increase:
Can you be disciplined or sacked for being ill? - 瓜神网 factsheet [162kb]Essential do's and don'ts if there is an accident or injury at work:
If there is an incident or injury at work - 瓜神网 factsheet [175kb]Finding out about violence at work:
Violence at work - 瓜神网 factsheet [250kb]
Violence at work - 瓜神网 factsheet [177kb]
see also:
Action against violence against women - branch guidance [321kb]Working Time Regulations and lecturers:
How long can a lecturer work without being given a break? [166kb]See also:
In the workplace
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Student numbers and workstation layout in craft workshops - 瓜神网 factsheet [171kb]
An in depth briefing on the issues with sample letters for safety reps:
Hot desking, open plan offices and space utilisation - 瓜神网 factsheet [151kb]These two factsheets on non-smoking workplaces compliment each other:
Smokefree workplaces: a summary [160kb]
Smokefree workplaces: a guide [220kb]-
Fire precautions factsheet - 瓜神网 factsheet [42kb] - a downloadable checklist
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Office space for academic staff - 瓜神网 factsheet [168kb] - includes advice on open plan offices
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'Temperature in indoor workplaces', extract workplace regulations approved code of practice [172kb] - includes extracts from the relevant regulations
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Example of a temperature and ventilation checklist - 瓜神网 factsheet [177kb] - a downloadable checklist
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Out of 'site', out of mind? IOSH guidance on teleworking [83kb] - IOSH guidance on teleworking supported by 瓜神网
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Office space - a guide to standards in space in the working environment - 瓜神网 factsheet [165kb]
Being online
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Practical steps to ensure internet safety - 瓜神网 factsheet [132kb]
Practical steps to ensure internet safety - 瓜神网 factsheet [160kb] -
Cyber-bullying: the invisible hand of bullying - 瓜神网 factsheet [151kb]
Cyber-bullying: the invisible hand of bullying - 瓜神网 factsheet [159kb]
Substances
Equipment
Facilities
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Risks associated with hot water systems - 瓜神网 factsheet [48kb]
An essential guide to toilet facilities and the law, especially in FE:
Staff toilets in FE colleges - 瓜神网 factsheet [108kb]
Driving at work
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