Background
Workplace health and safety issues in higher education are taken forward through a tripartite structure, the Higher Education Safety and Health Forum (HESH).
Membership is drawn from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), Universities Safety and Health Association (USHA), the trade unions and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
The current membership is:
- Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA)
- Universities Safety and Health Association (USHA)
- Universities and Colleges Union (UCU)
- Unite the Union
- UNISON
- HSE
Terms of reference
The terms of reference for the Forum are:
‘To act as a forum for the higher education sector, developing partnership between employer's and employee's representatives and provide strategic oversight and direction on matters of occupational health and safety.
It is expected that the establishment of this forum will lead to the evolution of practical solutions to occupational health and safety issues. The regulators will be invited to attend and others may be co-opted.’