Trade Union and Employee Health and Safety Representatives

Employers have a duty to consult with their employees, or their representatives, on health and safety matters.

For grades 1-5, your representatives of employee health and safety are:

Walter Dunaj - In post until 30.09.17

Email: w.dunaj@reading.ac.uk

Call: 0118 378 7799 (Internal 7799)

Michelle Hargreaves In post until 30.09.19

Email: m.hargreaves@reading.ac.uk

Call: 0118 378 5299 (Internal 5299)

Dawn Turner In post until 30.09.19

Email: d.m.turner@reading.ac.uk

Call: 0118 378 6013 (Internal 6013)

Appointments as employee Health and Safety Representatives are for three years.

Employee H&S representatives can:

• take up concerns with you about potential hazards and dangerous events in the workplace that may affect the employees they represent
• take up general matters affecting the health, safety and welfare of the employees they represent; and
• represent employees when consulted by health and safety inspectors.

For grades 6 and above, your Trade Union Health and Safety Representative (UCU) is:

Dr. Fred Davis

Email: f.j.davis@reading.ac.uk

Call: 0118 378 8455

The UCU representative can:

• represent employees generally and when you consult them about specific matters that will affect the health, safety and welfare of the employees
• represent employees when Health and Safety Inspectors from HSE or local authorities consult them
• investigate accidents, near misses, and other potential hazards and dangerous occurrences in the workplace
• investigate complaints made by an employee they represent about their health, safety or welfare in the workplace
• present the findings of investigations to you;
• inspect the workplace
• request in writing that the university sets up a health and safety committee, with at least one other appointed representative
• attend Health and Safety Committee meetings as a representative of employees.