Gender and Occupational Safety and Health
The TUC has reconvened its Women’s Health and Safety Working Group. The Group is focussing on a gender-sensitive approach to occupational health and safety and ensuring equal rights to protection for all workers. A Network has been set up so that safety reps can post
- details of recent research on GOSH
- information about what is happening in the UK, Europe and other countries
- requests for information on particular topics
- experience of dealing with gender and health and safety issues
- debates about the best way to develop a gender sensitive approach.
Discussion Board
Here you can chat and discuss ideas and issues with other group members. You
can choose to start a new topic for discussion, or read existing topics and
add your reply to what has already been said.
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The most recent documents available on this subject are:
TUC Gender and Occupational Safety and Health ‘Gender-sensitivity' Checklist
Ready to use checklist : How gender-sensitive is your workplace?
PDF version available for download
10 January 2008
How gender sensitive is health and safety management in your workplace?
The TUC's Gender and Occupational Safety and Health (G&OSH) Working Party have produced a checklist to help safety reps and others check whether their workplace health and safety policies and practices are gender sensitive.
10 January 2008
Employers failing to protect pregnant women at work
The Equal Opportunities Commission recently found that the majority of employers failed to undertake the legally required risk assessments to protect new or expectant mothers at work. Around 350,000 women continue to work during their pregnancy every year and of those, 69% return to work after giving birth.
20 May 2005
Risk assessment for new and expectant mothers
This briefing for safety representatives explains what their employers should do to ensure the protection of pregnant women and new mothers.
15 April 2005
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