Health and Safety Training:: The Management Dimension

Abstract

The safety representative/committee regulations of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, which became law in October 1978, have led to a substantial health and safety training programme being mounted by the TUC. In May 1977 a special TUC Conference on workplace health and safety discussed a variety of matters pertaining to this subject area. Among their most important decisions was one reaffirming that the emphasis of such training should be on TUC approved courses only, with the key functions of such training being to help identify health and safety issues in the workplace, find appropriate means and standards for dealing with health and safety problems and help establish an “infallible union workplace organisation” to ensure that the employers actually implemented safety measures. The TUC's target was that some 160,000 safety representatives would have undergone such training by 1980. In fact the TUC failed to attain this extremely ambitious target figure as is evidenced by the following figures:

Citation

Beaumont, P.B., Coyle, J.R. and Leopold, J.W. (1982), "Health and Safety Training:: The Management Dimension", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 6-9. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002390