Created on: 16 Jun 2025 | Last modified: 01 Sep 2025
TUC Safety representatives and safety committees (The Brown Book)
This booklet has been published by the TUC to ensure that all safety representatives are aware of their rights and responsibilities.
Ventillation Guidance
The following document is a summary of the Health and Safety Executive Guidance on Ventillation in the workplace.
HSE Ventilation Guidance Summary
Reasonable Adjustments
CEC Reasonable Adjustments Toolkit
CEC Health Adjustment Passport
Menopause Guidance
Menopause and Menstrual Health at Work - EIS Guidance for Members and Reps
CEC Menopause – supporting colleagues in the workplace
Absence
CEC Sickness Absence User Guide
CEC Return to Work Conversation Guide
myHS
CEC myHS Incident Investigation Guidance
Display Screen Equipment (DSE)
The following guides from the Health and Safety Execuitive and checklist from CEC provide advice for safely working with Display Screen Equipment (Computers):
HSE Display Screen Equipment Guidance
CEC DSE Risk Assessment Template
CEC Workstation Assessment Steps for Action
Staff Toilets and Sanitary Facilities
Regulation 20 of the The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 states that readily accessible, suitable and sufficient sanitary conveniences must be provided, adequately ventilated and lit, kept clean and maintained in an orderly condition.
Separate conveniences for men and women must be provided except where the convenience is in a separate room, the door of which can be secured from the inside.
The School Premises (General Requirements and Standards)(Scotland) 1967 cover washrooms for pupils, medical accommodation, acoustics, lighting and water supplies. The regulations state sanitary accomodation shall be provided for staff.
Staff facilities should be seperate from pupil facilities except where the facility is in a separate room, the door of which can be secured from the inside (such as an accessible toilet).
If the nearest staff toilet (including Accessible Toilets) is often unusable (because it’s dirty or always in use), then for practical purposes it is not “readily accessible”.
