Checking out Health and Safety in shops (Leaflet 254)
This leaflet has been prepared to help Usdaw Health and Safety Reps make the most of their legal powers. It contains checklists on some of the main health and safety issues which concern shopworkers.
Download: Checking out Health and Safety in shops (leaflet 254)
Date Posted: 1 September 2010
Health and Safety Reps can
use the checklists to:
- Get people talking about health and safety in
shops.
- Identify problems in their own workplace.
- Draw up their own checklists for use when doing workplace
inspections.
Further
Information
A short leaflet like this
gives only a brief introduction to some of the important health and
safety issues which affect shopworkers. These checklists will help
Usdaw Health and Safety Reps to get members talking about the
issues and to make a start at drawing up their own lists of
questions to ask management and to use during their regular
inspections of their shop.
Usdaw provides more detailed
information on these and other hazards in articles in Network, the
Union's activists magazine, and in circulars, booklets and
leaflets.
Usdaw Health and Safety Reps
should visit the site to sign up for our regular email alert service.
All Usdaw Health and Safety
Reps should also have a copy of Usdaw's Health
and Safety Reps' Handbook which gives practical advice on the
Usdaw Health and Safety Rep's job.
Any Usdaw Health and Safety
Rep who requires further information or advice on any particular
health and safety issue should contact their Area Organiser or
contact:
The Health and Safety
Officer
Legal Department
Usdaw, 188 Wilmslow Road
Manchester M14 6LJ
email: healthandsafety@usdaw.org.uk
Checking Out Health
and Safety in Shops (Leaflet 254) was correct at date of
publication September 2010.