The focus on this assignment is to sought research and analyse that the Union and workers will know best to identify ill-health caused by work. Common work-related injuries are stress, anxiety and depression, musculoskeletal disorder, occupational lung disease and work place injury such slips and trips, handling/lifting and carrying, falls from a height, struck by an object and acts of violence. The benefits of a unionised workplace are that the Safety representatives have the best training, education and development to perform their duties properly conforming to legislation and law and to ensure employers conform with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASAWA). The employer must work with the Safety representatives and set up Safety committees ensuring a safe workplace environment without risk to health and to ensure all Health & Safety policies, procedures, rules and regulations are adhered to and are regularly reviewed, updated and communicated.
The employer is responsible to The Health Safety Executive (HSE) who is a government body and a national regulator that enforces to prevent workplace death, injury and ill-health. The HSE works with other regulators, environmental agency and government bodies such as the local authorities, to intervene on individual businesses. Effective research is essential as work security protecting against hazards, injury and work-related ill-health. Every year workers suffer from work-related ill-health through accidents and diseases. The latest figures from the HSE website show that 1.4 million working people suffer from a work-related illness. According to the [Hazards 71, 1 August 2000] every year 25,000 workers are forced out of their jobs due to work-related ill-health. In 2016/17 an estimated £15 billion is the cost of injuries and ill-health from working conditions. An overwhelming 28.2 million working days were lost due to work-related illness and injury.