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Your working conditions can play a very important role in determining your health and safety. More often than not, the dangers you face are hidden rather than obvious. Seemingly harmless working practices or conditions can have great effects on your well being. Your employer has a legal duty to provide you with:

• a safe workplace;

• safe working methods; and

• safe equipment

In addition your employer cannot expect you to work with substances that would put your health at risk. If your employer is putting you at risk, UNISON is there to challenge them. We do this by:

• negotiations with the employer to produce, for example, the County Council's Safety Manual ("The Yellow Book");

• local Health and Safety Reps;

• using the law.

LATEST NEWS:

We have new inspection packs available for H&S Reps (ready for European H&S Week in October and beyond).

Please ring the branch office for your pack on 0115 981 0405

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H&S Officers & Reps

H&S Committee

We also have pages on this website offering H&S advice and details of our extensive H&S library that is based at the Branch Office. Please click here

The UNISON national website also contains H&S advice. Please click here