Public and Commercial Services Union

Latest news

• Hazards conference 2013 - application process open to PCS safety reps - email PCS - healthandsafety@pcs.org.uk
   
• Order your workplace stress poster and reps' guidance on tackling stress
• How union H&S reps make a difference
• Health and safety campaigns - defending all our H&S

Previous news

• 27 - March: Occupational diseases: the epidemic that is ignored (TUC factsheet - pdf)
• 27 - March: Health and safety: time for change - a manifesto for reclaiming H&S (TUC, with PCS input and endorsement)
   
• e-petition - Lobby DWP to save the Management of Health and Safety at Work Approved Code of Practice
• e-petition - Shrewsbury 24 - "Full disclosure of all government documents relating to the 1972 building workers strike and the conspiracy trials at Shrewsbury"
• Löfstedt - one year on (external report - pdf)
• Opinion split on HSE board on withdrawing Management Regs approved code of practice (external site website)
• Help preserve workers' compensation rights - petition
• UK national stress network conference - presentations available
• Government attacks strict liability - compensation for victims of injury and crime

Resources

• Health and safety at work, a guide for members
• Gender, health and safety
• Reporting accidents and incidents
• Guide to back pain
• Guide to tackling stress
• Guide to repetitive strain injury
• Guide to the sick note ("fit note")
• Becoming a health and safety rep
• Health and safety - legal summaries
• Health and safety reps toolkit
• Hazards A to Z guidance
• PCS H&S branch briefings

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Getting advice and information on H&S and well-being

In the first instance contact your local or group/national branch PCS health and safety rep. They will be closer to  local issues and have a working knowledge of the practices and policies that affect you.

For further information, contact the PCS policy and resources department:

• e: healthandsafety@pcs.org.uk
• t: 020 7801 2683

How union H&S reps make a difference

An updated version of 'The Union Effect - How unions make a difference to health and safety' (the TUC report showing the difference that unions make to the health and safety culture within the workplace) is now available.

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