TUC Launches Updated Workplace Safety Guide As Concerns Mount Over Cuts To Inspections
The new edition of the TUC's bestselling safety publication Hazards at Work was published last Friday, amid growing concerns over cuts to workplace safety inspections. Dave Joyce of the CWU has issued a letter to all CWU branches (LTB171/13) advising of the availability on a ‘first come first served’ basis of the TUC Hazards At Work handbook to branches to buy. Dave wrtites: The new 2013/14 TUC/CWU Hazards at Work, Safety Reps Handbook has been completely revised and updated in this fourth edition of the best-selling guide to health and safety at work, in its popular A4 size book format and is now available. It contains completely rewritten chapters on all those areas where there have been legislative changes. Other chapters have been fully updated to reflect any changes in case law or good practice, or where any new guidance has been issued since the previous edition. The new edition has been published amid growing concerns in the CWU and amongst Trade Unions as a whole over cuts to workplace safety inspections. The book warns of a 'hostile' political climate to health and safety that has resulted in the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) being prevented from making proactive visits to many workplaces to check that employers are working in ways that do not put their staff at risk. The normal commercial price per single purchase copy of the new book direct from the TUC is £45 and to Educational bodies £30. To TUC affiliated Trade Union members the cost is £18 per copy. However, the CWU HQ Health, Safety & Environment Department has once again, as with the earlier editions negotiated a one off bulk purchase discount price which we will pass on to Branches, reducing the price per book to £12 per copy plus p&p. We have a limited supply of 500 copies to be sold on a first come, first served basis and these will be sold at the agreed bulk purchase, discounted price as follows. Each box contains 13 Books. The Health, Safety & Environment Department will sell them on to Branches by the Box. Total cost £175 per box containing 13 Books at £12 each, plus p&p (Parcelforce 24) Orders should be placed ideally by the 31 March 2013. Branch orders will be despatched ASAP. Contact your CWU branch office for further details. The full report Hazards At Work: Organising for Safe and Healthy Workplaces is available here
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