Links
A selection of the links most likely to be of use to you, organised by subject.
Absence management
- Advice for safety reps
- Advice for employees on working with a long-term health condition - NHS factsheet [pdf]
- CIPD absence management toolkit for line managers
- Managing sickness absence and return to work
- Fit note - DWP guidance
Alcohol & Drugs
- D&A testing: TUC guidance
- "Random testing of dubious legality"
- ACAS guide and sample policy
- HSE alcohol and drugs at work
- Sensitive data rules - Hazards report about a Code on obtaining and handling information about workers' health including tests.
- "Testing times" - Hazards report on Union criticism of testing
Asbestos HSE asbestos home page - comprehensive information
- Fact card 6: Hidden killer
- HSE asbestos campaign and posters
- inadvertent exposure to asbestos
Back pain
- advice for workers
- returning to work
- see also Driving for work - below
Body mapping
Corporate manslaughter
Cancer
Consultation
- "Consulting employees on health and safety - a brief guide to the law"
- See also, Safety Reps Tools and Worker Involvement (both below)
Control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH)
Disability
- HSE risk and reasonable adjustments
- Prospect disability rights
- Mental health: TUC guide to representing & supporting members [pdf]
Driving for work
- work-related road safety
- Highway Code
- vehicles and workplace transport
- Prospect guide 26: safe driving and work related road risk
- Driving ergonomics
Electrical safety
Fire safety
Human factors
- HSE Human Factors web pages
- Hazards Magazine research "bad behaviour"
- organisational change
- organisational culture
Home working
Lone working
Lyme disease
Maintenance
Management duties
- accident reporting under RIDDOR
- competent advice
- consulting staff
- Employers Liability Compulsory Insurance
- H&S policy
- leadership
- risk assessment
- training staff
Occupational health, work and well being
- Absence Management - see above
- ACAS guide to health, work and well being [pdf]
- alcohol & drugs - see above
- first aid
- 'Getting the most of occ health services' - Hazards Magazine article includes a checklist for reps
- 'Managing attendance and employee turnover' ACAS guide
- mental health: representing & supporting members [pdf]
- New and expectant mothers - HSE guidance
- 'Occupational health – dealing with the issues' A TUC education workbook for union reps[pdf]
- pandemic flu - TUC guidance on swine flu
- sickness absence - see absence management above
- TUC workSMART health
- zoonotic infections Prospect factcard 5
- working long hours? See Working Time below.
- 'Understanding health surveillance at work' - HSE guide [pdf]
- working with animals factsheet
- working with lead
Office safety
- general
- display screen equipment (VDUs) Prospect factcard 3
- display screen equipment - preventing aches & pains
- floors and traffic routes [pdf INDG 244]
- lighting [pdf INDG 244]
- maximum/minimum temperatures
- room dimensions and space [pdf INDG 244]
- VDUs [HSE guidance as pdf INDG 36]
- workstations and seating [pdf INDG 244]
Organisational change
- Fair Change - 2009 Prospect negotiation guide [pdf]
Organising and recruiting
- organising for health and safety [pdf] - a toolkit for Branches to support H&S reps
- more recent TUC publications [all pdfs]
Risk assessment
- HSE risk management web pages
- 5 steps to risk assessment - HSE guide
- TUC risk assessment guide for safety reps
- Common errors in risk assessment process - very useful for checking what your employer is doing
- Risk Assessment Tools Database - provided by European Agency
- Working in or near water, rivers and seas
Safety rep tools
- ACAS guide to consultation and communications
- Brown Book [pdf]
- Charters
- DIY tools for safety reps
- Hazards Magazine - internationally acclaimed resource for H&S reps
- HSE worker involvement web pages
- HSE web pages for H&S reps
- HSE campaigns
- ILO "Barefoot research manual" - an international encyclopaedia on safety rep inspections, investigations, surveys and negotiations
- Prospect safety rep toolkit
- training
- whistleblowing
Stress - see also occupational health, work and well being
- New and recommended Sept 2010 "Work-related stress: what the law says" pdf from CIPD/ACAS/HSE
- HSE stress pages
- Prospect members' guide 8: work-related stress
- Prospect members'guide 3: harassment and bullying
- Work-related stress and risk assessment - European Agency PowerPoint presentation - highly recommended
- Psychosocial risk factsheet - job insecurity, new contracts, etc
- TUC guide for reps on HSE's Stress Management Standards
- WHO 2003 Protecting Workers' Health
- WHO 2008 Guidance on the European Framework for Psychosocial Risk Management - a resource for employers and worker reps
TUC and union-wide support
- Health & Safety Inspections guide [pdf]
- 'Occupational health – dealing with the issues' [pdf]
- TUC risk assessment guide for H&S reps
- TUC health and safety index
- workSMART health and safety rights
- Unionreps discussion forum
- Hazards Magazine - internationally acclaimed resource for safety reps
Violence
Welfare
- drinking water - [pdf INDG 293 see also INDG 244]
- general advice [pdf INDG 244]
- temperature - working in hot and cold environments (HSE)
- temperature - working in extremes of temperature (hot or cold) (TUC)
- toilets [pdf INDG 293]
- ventilation
Worker involvement
- HSE webpages
- Energy Institute “Guidance on effective workforce involvement in health and safety”
Worker health & safety rights
- Prospect members' guide 5: health and safety rights at work
- "Your rights and responsibilities" - HSE web pages
Working time
- Prospect Members' Guide 25 'Working Time and the Law'
- HSE web pages on working time
- Working Hours
- Working Time Regulations
- The Long Hours Advice Clinic - Prof Cary Cooper assessment tool