TUC: Health and safety in a changing climate
- Date: 03 July 2024
- Time: 14:00 - 15:00
- Location: Online
Event details
This webinar is aimed at health & safety reps to help equip them with the skills to protect their colleagues from climate change-related hazards.
Join the TUC's panel of experts to explore the impacts of climate change on occupational health and safety, encourage organising around climate change, towards a just transition and introduce us to union initiatives which are making an impact.
The panel are:
- Rory O'Neill, Editor of Hazards Magazine and OSH advisor to the International Trades Union Congress who will discuss why climate change is a trade union issue and why it should become an organising priority
- Sarah Lyons, Lead Officer for Health, Safety and Environment, NEU will introduce the Joint Union Heatwave Protocol
- Graham Petersen who will talk through some of the impact being made by the Trade Union Clean Air Network.
This event was hosted by the TUC using the Zoom platform. Accord is not responsible for this material.
Resources
- Too hot, too cold – interactive guide for union reps
- SPF is PPE – guidance for reps
- Managing ventilation as a Covid safety measure - TUC webinar (YouTube)
- Protecting workers from cold temperatures - TUC webinar (YouTube)
- We need a maximum workplace temperature - sign the petition
- Joint union heatwave protocol - guidance and tips from NEU and others
- NEU green reps workplace checklist - a helpful audit
- Trade Union Clean Air Network - guidance on indoor pollution
- Presentation slides - TUCAN, Graham Petersen
- A bad climate - Hazards magazine article
- Boiling point - Hazards magazine article
- Hazards Conference 2024 - register
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