Unite H & Safety Toolkit

This app will make your workplaces safer and ensure that your members, who are injured at work, have the best chance of securing compensation. It is THE essential toolkit for Unite workplace health and safety representatives, activists, stewards and conveners – anyone who prizes a safer and healthier workplace.

Key features:

• Record details of workplace dangers and upload the details to Unite’s regional legal coordinator to discuss with regional officers and lawyers what action can be taken to force an employer to remedy the problem and improve safety
• Record full details of a workplace accident immediately after the event, capturing and preserving the evidence when it is at its highest and most important – when it is most fresh in people’s memories
• The app allows you to record -
o Full details about the injured party
o Full details of all witnesses
o Full details of what happened including photographs of the scene
o Witness statements by the injured party, witnesses and any other relevant people
o Uploadable information which goes directly to Unite’s regional legal coordinator

This app, and the evidence it allows you to secure and preserve, can be the difference between your member securing the compensation they deserve or not.

Additional Features

The app is also an invaluable information resource providing practical advice and information to assist you in your day to day activity as a workplace health and safety representative. The information contained on the resource centre embedded within the app includes:

• Essential guidance on your duties and powers as a health and safety representative
• An explanation of the legislation concerning the functions and powers of a health and safety representative
• Practical advice on how to carry our your duties on a day to day basis
• Objections and barriers that may be placed in your way by an employer as you carry out your duties as a health and safety representative and how to overcome them
• Key arguments to be used in discussions with employers over your right to investigate, facility time and other key work of a health and safety representative
• Frequently asked questions