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H&S 2: Organising and bargaining for health and safety - 23, 24, 25, February, 2026, North West Region, In Person, Manchester

This course is for those who have completed the UCU H&S 1 course and wish to extend their H&S knowledge around organising and bargaining. The course will help you learn how to involve members along with developing bargaining strategies to win better H&S conditions for members.

Health & safety rep courses

Course details

Nation/region:North West region
Course meeting dates:

23, 24, 25, February, 2026

Please ensure you can attend the entire course prior to submitting your application  form. Please further ensure you have secured time off from your employer to attend.

Course meeting times:

9:30 am. to 4:30 pm.

Course time commitment:21 - 25 hours including pre-course work
Location:Manchester - working class movement library - https://wcml.org.uk/

Closing Date:

Applications for this course will close at 12 noon on Wednesday 18th February 2026. This allows course logistics, refreshments bookings & logins etc. to be generated in good time. Applications beyond the closing date risk not being accepted.

Course content

The course will cover the following: 

  • how to improve health and safety training
  • planning  and conducting health and safety inspections
  • using a systematic approach to tackling health and safety problems
  • how to improve the risk assessment process
  • how Covid is affecting H&S training, risk, stress and inspections
  • negotiating effective polices and procedures around stress and violence
  • how to build union organisation around health & safety issues
  • further development of key skills become an effective safety rep.
UCU courses are funded via members' contributions and public funding.

Information Facility time

Time off for training is a right and one which should be exercised as part of normal industrial relations. For more info please see  Facilities and time off for UCU reps.

When you apply for a course we will assume that are making a commitment to attend the course as advertised, and have secured time off from your employer. Please contact your branch/region if you are having problems securing time off.

Important Before you complete this form, please be aware: You may be asked to register with the delivering college in which your trade union tutor is employed. Where colleges are drawing down funding for delivery you will be ask for your passport or equivalent identification details to register. This is a demand of the college who are following government requirements in order to satisfy public funding criteria. This is not a requirement UCU want to see and we are lobbying for change. However, as it stands, if you do not register with the college, your place will not be fundable.

For more information about the type of identification the college will accept please click here