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Category: health and safety

UNISON calls on Environment Agency to strengthen its health and safety measures

Unions seek urgent review of risk assessments to tackle new COVID-19 variant The article UNISON calls on Environment Agency to strengthen its health and safety measures first appeared on the UNISON...
Posted on 22/01/2021Author Unison news releasesCategories Article, Covid-19, environment agency, health and safety, News, news releasesTags Unison

UNISON urges employers to review staff safety due to new COVID variant

Union writes to Health and Safety Executive urging updated guidelines to protect workers in light of new variant of coronavirus The article UNISON urges employers to review staff safety due to new...
Posted on 05/01/2021Author Unison news releasesCategories Article, Covid-19, health and safety, news releasesTags Unison

UNISON welcomes better health and safety protection for zero-hours workers

High Court rules that zero-hours workers should have the same protection as others The article UNISON welcomes better health and safety protection for zero-hours workers first appeared on the UNISON...
Posted on 16/11/2020Author Unison news releasesCategories Article, health and safety, news releases, zero hoursTags Unison

Politics can‘t interfere in the approval of PPE, warns UNISON

Political pressure to approve substandard PPE does not bode well for HSE independence once the UK finally leaves the safety of the EU, says the union The article Politics can‘t interfere in the...
Posted on 13/11/2020Author Unison news releasesCategories Article, Covid-19, health and safety, news releases, PPETags Unison

UNISON recruits record numbers of health and safety reps

Since UNISON launched Be on the safe side campaign to recruit new health and safety reps this summer, over 1,000 members have come forward The article UNISON recruits record numbers of health and...
Posted on 22/09/2020Author Unison news releasesCategories #BeOnTheSafeSide, Article, Covid-19, health and safety, news releasesTags Unison

UNISON president calls for a ‘global recovery’ after the pandemic

UNISON members address virtual TUC congress, highlighting the impact on workers of the COVID-19 pandemic The article UNISON president calls for a ‘global recovery’ after the pandemic...
Posted on 15/09/2020Author Unison news releasesCategories Article, Covid-19, health and safety, international, Josie Bird, News, news releasesTags TUC, Unison

Have you contracted COVID-19 at work? Let us know 

UNISON has launched a COVID-19 workplace exposure questionnaire in partnership with Thompsons solicitors The article Have you contracted COVID-19 at work? Let us know  first appeared on the UNISON...
Posted on 08/09/2020Author Unison news releasesCategories Article, Covid-19, health and safety, health and safety reps, legal services, news releases, ThompsonsTags Unison

Blog: the plight of pregnant workers in the age of COVID

Julia O’Connell, the vice chair of UNISON’s national women’s committee, explains what’s it like to be pregnant – and working – during COVID-19 The article Blog: the plight of pregnant workers in the...
Posted on 03/07/2020Author Unison news releasesCategories Article, Covid-19, equalities, health and safety, News, news releases, pregnancy and maternity rights, women membersTags Unison

UNISON sets out to recruit more safety reps amid COVID crisis

'A workplace without a safety rep potentially puts the safety of our members at risk' The article UNISON sets out to recruit more safety reps amid COVID crisis first appeared on the UNISON National...
Posted on 29/06/2020Author Unison news releasesCategories Article, coronavirus, Covid-19, health and safety, health and safety reps, News, news releasesTags Unison

Remembering our key workers

“It was incredibly moving to see the entire nation fall silent and pay its respects” The article Remembering our key workers first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Posted on 28/04/2020Author Unison news releasesCategories 28 April, Article, coronavirus, Covid-19, dave prentis, health and safety, international workers' memorial day, IWMD, News, news releasesTags Unison

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