Health & Safety

This short, accredited online course will look at current developments and provide an in-depth focus on the Health &Safety measures that need to be in place to ensure that you return to work, and continue to work, safely during this Covid-19 crisis. The course will cover:
 

• Working from home or returning to workplace
• Risk assessments and identifying hazards
• Rights of H&S representatives
• Rights of employees and legal obligations on employers
• Dealing with serious and imminent danger.

As workers have a huge amount of knowledge that can help organisations looking to reduce their environmental impact, trade unions can play a key role in identifying and delivering best environmental practice at workplace level. 

Everyone deserves the opportunity to work and to progress at their work. But there’s still a long way to go before disabled people have equality in the workplace.

The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the barriers faced by disabled workers including the provision of reasonable adjustments.