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Category: Health and Safety

Health and Safety News Reports

Responding to health and safety challenges of pandemic and climate change

24 November 2021 Editor

A busy UNISON Scotland Health & Safety Seminar on 22 October 2021 covered a range of issues, linking topical issues

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Fair Work Further education Health Health and Safety Higher Education Local Government News Social Work

Tackling mental health at work, resources for branches

2 August 2021 Susan Galloway

Two new reports from UNISON Scotland launched in The Herald on Sunday (1 August) are about supporting branches to tackle

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Coronavirus Health and Safety News STUC

STUC raise self isolation concerns with First Minister.

27 July 2021 Stephen Low

STUC General Secretary Rozanne Foyer has written to the First Minister expressing unions concerns about changes to self isolation rules.

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Coronavirus Health and Safety Learning News

CORONAVIRUS: Online short health and safety courses

1 July 2020 Danny Phillips

CORONAVIRUS ALL MEMBERS Covid – Ensuring a Safe Return to Work Course (for new and existing safety representative) UNISON Scotland

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Black Workers & Covid – Structural Inequality & Risk. New UNISON Scotland Report

29 June 2020 Stephen Low

Indications are that Black workers are over four times more likely to die from Covid19 than white people. Of the

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Workers Memorial Day 2020

23 April 2020 Danny Phillips

Register for the STUC online tribute at 10.30am on Tuesday 28 April.  We remember those we have lost. We organise

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Health and Safety

28 January 2016 Editor

To be effective in our fight for safe working conditions we need people in every workplace to act as advisors

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Health and Safety News

Violent Assaults on Public Service Staff in Scotland – UNISON Survey 2019

7 November 2019 Editor

Violent incidents are still a problem for staff across public services. That’s the unavoidable conclusion of UNISON Scotland annual survey.

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Health and Safety International News

International Workers Memorial Day 2019 remember the dead fight for the living

10 April 2019 Editor

On 28 April each year – International Workers’ Memorial Day – we remember the dead and fight for the living.

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Health and Safety News Press release

UNISON – Scottish government must act as public service workers face more than 40,000 violent incidents every year

19 October 2018 UNISON Scotland

Public services union UNISON has called for action from the Scottish Government to “end the aggro” faced by council and

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