Jan Cutting Healthy Living Centre,
Scott Business Park,
Beacon Park Road,
PLYMOUTH

The Workshop is free with buffet lunch supplied
Application forms: Tel. 0117 9470521 email: southwest@tuc.org.uk

What's it about?

"Isn't health & safety the same for everyone?" No! We need to be alert to the different issues that affect working men and women. Women are workers, but they are also mothers, sisters, grandmothers, daughters, partners, nieces and grand-daughters. They experience the full cycle of life while at work, and each stage has implications for the health and safety standards that trades unions and employers should apply.

The European Agency for Health & Safety Report: "Gender Issues in Safety & Health"' shows how health & safety is often geared to standards, work practices & equipment that see the average male worker's body & size, and 8-hour shift patterns as the norm. Working women's particular concerns are often hidden.

Unions are concerned to highlight these issues and to deliver effective work-place campaigns & health & safety legislation. The South-West TUC offers this workshop in support of these initiatives.

This workshop is for trades unionists, reps and activists, students, and any other interested women.