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Health and safety resources

Prospect produces a wide variety of health and safety resources for members and reps.

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  • Forms and templates for H&S reps
  • Guides and factcards for members
  • Health and Safety Advisory Committee papers
  • Leaflets
  • Posters
  • Health & safety Briefings
  • SafetyWorks newsletter
  • Prospect submissions.

You can see the full range of resources in each category using the links on the left. Below you will find quick lists of the most recent documents in each category.

Guides and factcards

 
 
Type Title Date
Negotiator's guide Download now: Safety representatives' legal rights, and guidance on how to use those rights. How to use the resources available within Prospect, at local, branch and national level; how to assist in this work and how to communicate and involve Prospect members in safety issues. Guidance on handling safety inspections and dealing with accidents or dangerous occurrences. Sample forms to help you carry out your legal functions are included. Updated September 2005. Health and Safety 25 October 2006
Negotiator's guide Download now: At its 2008 National Conference, Prospect voted for research into organisational change and the publication of guidance to deliver support and best practice to our branches. This guide presents early findings as a framework to promote awareness and prompt dialogue about our future policy direction. Fair Change – Prospect guide to organisational change 08 May 2009
Members' guide Download now: Advice for anyone who travels alone, carries out fieldwork or works at outside premises 01 Lone Working 15 January 2011
Members' guide Download now: What is harassment, and how to deal with it 03 Harassment and bullying 06 January 2011
Members' guide Download now: The causes of stress, its effect on health, its symptoms, and employers' legal duties (updated March 2010) 08 Work-related stress 11 March 2010
Members' guide Download now: Homeworking is a flexible arrangement by which workers use their home as their main or subsidiary place of work for an employer, either as an office or as a base from which visits are made. Updated October 2011 20 Homeworking 24 November 2011
Members' guide Download now: A guide to safe guide you as a road user, protect you as a duty-holder and enable Prospect reps to measure and promote their employer’s compliance. 26: Safe driving and work-related road risk 15 May 2012
Factcard Download now: A factcard for all members who work with animals and/or in the countryside. Covers details of the law, safe working practices and information about zoonotic infections. Zoonotic infections 01 October 2005
Factcard Download now: A guide to working with display screen equipment (updated July 2007). Covers: the law; good practice; advice; action points VDUs 01 July 2007
Factcard Download now: Members' factcard covering the hidden dangers of asbestos, an overview of the law, advice on your rights as an employee, and questions to help Prospect members and reps check compliance in their own workplace. Asbestos: the hidden killer 02 December 2009
Factcard Download now: This factcard introduces mapping techniques: some simple steps you can take to unearth the health hazards in your workplace or business area. The technique is supported by the TUC and Health and Safety Executive and has been validated and published in peer-reviewed journals. Body and workplace mapping factcard 15 March 2011
Factcard Download now: Current Health and Safety Executive (HSE) strategy invites employers and workers ‘to be part of the solution’ in accident and ill health prevention through effective leadership and worker involvement. health and safety in annual reports 16 May 2012
Factcard Download now: As a worker, you have the right to work in a place where risks to your health and safety are properly controlled. Health and safety is about preventing you getting hurt at work or being made ill by work. your health and safety rights 16 May 2012
 
 

Safety briefings

 
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The "Union Effect" July 2008
21 August 2008
The impact of H&S reps on workplace health and safety.
New web pages & worker involvement
22 October 2008
Newsletter on launch of new H&S web pages, new HSE worker involvement web pages, European H&S week.
Health & Safety update - February 2009
26 February 2009
Health & Safety updates February 2009
Human Swine Influenza
15 May 2009
A Briefing on the Human Swine Influenza
Line management behaviour and stress at work
09 June 2009
RSS H&S Briefing following CIPD/HSE update of line management & HR guidance
 
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Leaflets and posters

 
 
Title Date
Safety reps and the law 14 January 2008
Inspect and protect - become a safety rep 19 December 2007
Safety representatives and safety committees - Brown Book 16 April 2009
Asbestos register leaflet 11 November 2008
HIV/AIDS Digest 24 November 2008
Gender and development in southern Africa 20 October 2010
Electrical Safety - a perspective based on incidents 18 November 2010
What the spending cuts will mean – Health and Safety and the HSE 16 December 2010
WTYT flyer 22 February 2012
Event flier: Justice for South African gold miners 02 April 2012
ENA Autumn Review - Asset-related incidents 27 March 2013
 
 

Posters

 
 
Title Date
Safer work, better lives 11 December 2008
'Don't suffer in silence' poster 29 November 2006
Health and safety inspection poster 25 January 2007
Health and safety poster: 'apple' 07 January 2008
Health and safety poster: 'banana' 07 January 2008
Health and safety poster: 'orange' 07 January 2008
Stress poster: don't suffer alone 11 November 2008
WorkTime YourTime: Will your Blackberry make you crumble 06 January 2012
Worktime YourTime: Has life in your car gone too far? 06 January 2012
WorkTime YourTime: yet another working lunch? 06 January 2012
WorkTime YourTime: Need protecting from burn-out? 06 January 2012
WorkTime YourTime meetings poster 22 February 2012
Prospect, sea change at work poster 06 September 2012
Safety reps – your rock in a hard place 06 September 2012
Stress and stigma pop art poster 14 March 2013
Workers' Memorial Day 2013 - red poster 19 April 2013
 
 

Forms

Title Date
Prospect asbestos register form 02 February 2009
Inspection and report form 25 January 2013
Notification of health and safety inspection 14 January 2013
Accident investigation or dangerous occurrence report form, ESI sector 14 January 2013

Submissions

 
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Title Date
Biosecurity in UK Research Laboratories: Submission by Prospect to the Innovation, Universities and Skills Select Committee 31 January 2008
Distribution Price Control Review - DPCR5 Paper Ref 15908 12 February 2009
The health and safety of Great Britain: be part of the solution 02 March 2009
Using a hand-held mobile phone while driving 21 November 2002
Health and safety: an alternative vision 01 December 2003
 
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Health and safety advisory committee minutes and agendas

 
 
Title Date
Minutes of NEC H&S Advisory Committee 12 June 2012 26 June 2012
 
 

Health and safety advisory committee circulars

 
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Title Date
Circular launching Fair Change 07 May 2009
Prospect health and safety conference, 28 April 2009 11 December 2008
Circular to staff - Body Mapping Members' Factcard 7 11 May 2011
The Homeworker - Autumn 2011 17 October 2011
International Workers' Memorial Day 02 March 2012
 
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