Health & Safety reps represent the interests and concerns of all their colleagues, union membership or not. Their remit includes the physical environment as well as mental health and wellbeing.
This page is a work-in-progress and will compile insight, skills and resources for use of all colleagues.
Pop-up stalls
Come and visit our lunchtime QMUCU pop up stall to find out about the branch’s work on Health, Safety and Welfare. From your physical environment to your mental health, this is an opportunity to bring to our attention current issues or your suggestions to make our campuses a safer, better workplace for all. Lunchtimes, 12:30-2pm.
- Tuesday 18 February Mile End – Ground Cafe
- CANCELLED Tuesday 11 March Whitechapel – Nucleus Cafe
- Tuesday 18 March Whitechapel – Nucleus Cafe
- Thursday 27 March Mile End – Ground Cafe
- Tuesday 8 April Charterhouse – The Shield
Contact
Contact our Health & Safety rep to bring to our attention current issues, ask questions, or make suggestions.
Blogposts
QMVoices: Workplace Issues in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Reps in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry surveyed colleagues, union and non-union, about the matters that affect them the most.
Recent Changes to Employment Law
There are a few changes to employment law coming in to force. Our caseworkers and Health & Safety reps have pulled together an overview.
Management ignoring government guidance on return to campus
Over the last two weeks you will have received messages from the Principal about the university’s plans for the next academic semester. In those emails it has been claimed that new government guidance on the return to campus in January “does not affect us”. This is not true The university is instead proposing to…
Only 3 % of UCU members have full confidence in senior management’s response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
There was a great response to the Covid Attitudes Survey which closed last week. Over 360 members of staff completed the survey, which makes it the largest exercise in gauging staff opinion since the start of the pandemic. The results show widespread overwork, stress, fear, and lack of confidence in senior management. But while the…
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