Our Health & Safety Officer is Tam Templeman
If you have any questions for Tam please get in touch with the branch at [email protected]
Tam is holding the next Health & Safety meeting on MONDAY 27th JANUARY 2025 17:15 to 18:45 which you can either attend in person at UNISON Branch Office or on Microsoft Teams.
If you would like to attend or have any questions on Health & Safety please contact the branch or contact Tam directly at [email protected].
Is It Really About Health & Safety ?
06/03/2025
Sometimes health and safety is used to justify a decision, when in reality there is no health and safety legislation that applies. The information below should help you to weed out misunderstandings about health and safety law – and find out if you are dealing with a real health and safety concern. Ask yourself, ‘Is it really about health and safety?’
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Dates for your Diary
The dates for this years Health & Safety Meetings have been organised, please add to your diary (These are also on the UNISON Diary page on this website).
Tuesday 29th April Branch Office or Microsoft Teams 17:15 – 18:45
Monday 23rd June Branch Office or Microsoft Teams 17:15 – 18:45
Monday 22nd September Branch Office or Microsoft Teams 17:15 – 18:45
Monday 15th December Branch Office or Microsoft Teams 17:15 – 18:45
The annual figures (2023 to 2024) include:
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Health & Safety Survey
UNISON Scotland’s Violence At Work Report 2024
It gives a picture of the violence faced by workers across Scotland’s public sector.
This year as well as compiling raw figures from public service employers across Scotland, we have made an effort to explore and highlight abuse of women and black workers. This, we have found, is something many employers are not taking seriously at all.
A link to the report on the UNISON Scotland website is here.
HSE release annual figures for Mesothelioma
Please click HERE for HSE Asbestos & Mesothelioma report, statistics & information.
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Stewards Development Day
Steve & Graham from FC Corporate Health & Safety attended our Stewards Development Day at the Victoria Hotel Kirkcaldy on Tuesday 3rd September to deliver a fantastic presentation on many aspects of Health & Safety – from incident reporting to workplace inspections.
There was a lot of interest from our stewards and hopefully the branch H&S group meetings will be able to catch up with Steve and Graham again soon
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UNISON Fife Health & Safety Report 3/9/24
First meeting with Corporate Health & Safety concerning issues with the FH&SC partnership went well and hopefully there will be more to come and more to report back to the branch
There’s issues with the Grounds Maintenance service and how they propose to cut slopes/ banking’s but will be attending the service forum tomorrow and will report back after this
I have now received firm dates for joint visits with Corporate H&S to a care home in Northeast fife and another in southwest fife and will report back after these visits have been carried out
There has also been an issue raised through Linda’s POC/Stewards meeting concerning an old-style sterilization unit for cutlery which we are looking into, Linda is arranging a visit through the school and hopefully we can get someone from corporate to come along with me to have their views on this
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