Safety reps booklet and survey

Later this year the Labour Research Department (LRD) will publish a new booklet, Safety reps in action, outlining the crucial role played by safety reps in the workplace.

LRD is also planning to create a database of policies negotiated by safety reps to help share good practice.

We are asking union officials and workplace reps to send us any of the following:

* health and safety policies on particular issues that the union has negotiated nationally or safety reps have negotiated in workplaces;

* examples of health and safety improvements won in workplaces because of the intervention of safety reps;

* examples of industrial action over health and safety matters; and

* the use of enforcement agencies, such as the Health and Safety Executive, to secure improvements.

A survey form can be downloaded from the LRD website (www.lrd.org.uk).

Comments or materials can also be e-mailed to Paul Hampton [email protected] or sent by freepost to LRD, FREEPOST, 78, Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8YX (no stamp required).