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Usdaw and Health & Safety

Usdaw believes that health and safety at work is a right not a privilege. But we know the only way to secure that right is to have an active network of health and safety reps working for members. This part of the web site is for those reps and all members interested in health and safety.

From here you can access useful guides, posters, etc in our safety rep toolkit, find out about common hazards; sign up for regular email alerts on H&S topics; read frequently asked questions and join our discussion forum for Usdaw H&S activists. Specialist assistance is available from the H&S Section in the Legal Department.

This is your web site. We want it to work for Usdaw H&S reps. Use it and let us know what you are doing and what you think.


Health & Safety News

Machinery maintenance is a matter of life and death 02 July 2008
The HSE has issued a warning about the importance of regular maintenance after inspectors found serious faults in a machine at Grampian Country Foods Halls factory in Broxburn. ...   read more

Weetabix fined for machinery guarding problem 26 June 2008
Weetabix has been fined £3,500 after a worker lost his fingertips in a machine at the Burton Latimer factory....   read more

£2 Fine for Workplace Death 19 June 2008
A company convicted of safety offences that resulted in one person being killed and three seriously injured has been fined two pounds....   read more

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Lidl accused of spying on its staff- 23 April 2008
Lidl supermarket chain has been accused of spying on its staff in Germany by using secret cameras to record how often staff went to the toilet and even employing private detectives to monitor staffs private lives....   read more

FLT driver prosecuted- 23 April 2008
A fork lift truck driver working in a Hertfordshire sawmill has been prosecuted by the HSE for breaching health and safety legislation....   read more

The National Food and Drink Health and Safety Awards- 23 April 2008
The IOSH Food and Drink Group are sponsoring the second National Food and Drink Health and Safety Awards. The awards recognise innovative projects that have produced a practical solution to, and made and positive impact on, a health and safety problem in the food or drink manufacturing sector. ...   read more

International Workers' Memorial Day 28 April- 23 April 2008
Monday 28 April is International Workers' Memorial Day - the day when the trade union movement across the world commemorates the millions of workers killed by accidents and illness at work with the slogan 'Remember the Dead: Fight for the Living'....   read more

Healthier workplaces for healthier workers- 23 April 2008
Dame Carole Black, the National Director for Health and Work, has published the first ever review into the health of the working age population - Working for a Healthier Tomorrow - calling for urgent and comprehensive reform and a new approach to health and work in Britain....   read more

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Distributing Safety

Usdaw Warehousing Guidance
A new Usdaw guide is available for safety reps working in warehouses. ‘Distributing Safety’ is based on the HSE’s Warehousing and Storage – A Guide to Health and Safety’ (HSG76).

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