The TUC Certificate in Health and Safety representative (Next Steps) is a follow-on course to the Health and safety representatives stage 1.
This course is designed for health and safety representatives who have already completed the TUC Health and safety stage 1 course, or its equivalent and who have had subsequent experience as an elected health and safety rep. This is not a course for new Union Health and Safety representatives or as a first course in your union education.
The course helps reps identify, prevent and control risks helping to build a safer and healthier workplace. It encourages reps to involve members in safety issues by developing a collective approach to health and safety. It helps reps keep up to date on health and safety law and information enabling them to use it more effectively. The course help reps build health and safety organisation and effect real change in the workplace.
The course will help you:
- build a safe and healthy workplace
- build health and safety organisation
- keep up-to-date on health and safety issues
- effect change in health and safety
- plan for the future.
You will be required to produce an end of course project and presentation on a health and safety topic of your choice.
