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.

This is a 10 week long course. Attendance is one day per week and times 9.30am-4.30pm

Note:

For those living in a devolved Mayoral authority or devolved authority such as Manchester, Liverpool etc., we would suggest that you get in touch with us to check your eligibility for free funding.

For more information https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-skills-fund-asf-postcode-files/2024-to-2025-devolution-postcode-dataset-guidance

Also, please be aware that only UK based residents, whom have confirmed that they are a union representative from an affiliated Trades Union Congress (TUC) trade union can apply to attend these courses.

Please rescind from applying if you cannot meet the above criteria.

For anything regarding application and the course you can email us separately on tued.TottenhamCentre@conel.ac.uk

Next Steps for Safety Reps (Classroom)