Welcome to the Las
UNISON Branch Health & Safety Page.
'No one should be made ill by their work' (ref: LAS Manual Handling
Policy)
UNISON and the LAS Branch take your Health & Safety
seriously.
It is important that we receive feedback on Health &
Safety issues raised on this page and that we are
notified of any new possible risks.
Please use our new
feedback form to
notify us or if you have any comments or suggestions
about this site.
If you wish to contact the branch health &
safety officer on any health & safety issue you can send an e-mail to
health@lasunison.com or telephone
07719 973
199.
Violence at Work
A memorandum of
understanding has been agreed between the Crown
Prosecution Service (‘CPS’) and the NHS Security
Management Service (‘NHS SMS’) to ensure the effective
prosecution of cases involving violence and abuse
(whether physical, verbal or sexual and including
assaults which are religiously or racially motivated)
against any member of ‘NHS staff’. Current sentencing
practice indicates that custody is the appropriate
starting point for a person who assaults a public
servant. The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)
have also committed to a memorandum of understanding
with the NHS SMS. Nobody will argue that this is
actually happening of course in fact only a small
fraction of the assaults we suffer ever make it into
court. Why? In my opinion two reasons:
1. Lack of commitment/resources from the LAS to pursue
those responsible combined with a lack of care towards
those that have been assaulted. (A part - time Security
Manager to support 3000 staff!).
2. The fact that most of us are unaware that every
assault should be reported to the Police and that they
have a duty and the powers to prosecute via the courts.
Bucket colours are
changing from the
1 September 2009. Yellow will be the
new colour for cleaning ambulances while
red will now be used for
toilets and showers on stations and
green for kitchens.
