LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE 2018: CWU DELEGATION REPORTS

The Labour Party Conference was held in Liverpool from Sunday 23rd to Wednesday 26th September 2018. 

The following is a report on the decisions taken by the CWU women’s delegation at their meeting on Friday 21stSeptember 2018 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Liverpool.

COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION

2018 CWU Women Labour Party Delegation Meeting

HMS Liverpool Boardroom, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Liverpool

Friday 21st September 2018, 5.30pm

PRESENT: Dave Ward (General Secretary), Tony Kearns (SDGS), Katie Dunning, Kate Hudson (Chair), Karen Rose (conference call), Joyce Stevenson and Kate Walsh

IN ATTENDANCE: Tracey Fussey, Maria Exall, Andrew Towers, Natasha Burgess and Meta Bovell

APOLOGIES: Beryl Shepherd (President)

1. INTRODUCTION AND APOLOGIES

Kate Hudson, the Chair welcomed everyone to the CWU Women’s Delegation meeting. She also welcomed Tracey Fussey and Maria Exall, who were attending the meeting in an ex-officio capacity as CWU National Policy Forum representative and Vice Chair of TULO respectively.

2. WELCOME

The General Secretary, Dave Ward, welcomed those present. Due to the fact that the Women’s Conference was having policy-making power for the first time, the General Secretary recognised the role the CWU had played in pushing for this. He explained that with the Women’s Conference being fully stand alone and independent next year, we would be able to have a separate elected delegation for this, which he recognised CWU Women’s Conference had requested.

3. DELEGATION LEADER

It was agreed that Karen Rose would lead the women’s delegation at tomorrow’s conference. She also agreed to collect the ballot papers.

4. CWU MOTION: SPEAKER AND COMPOSITING

CWU had submitted a motion on Period Poverty to the Women’s Conference. Katie Dunning offered to speak on the motion. This was agreed by the delegation. It was also agreed that Katie would attend the compositing meeting on behalf of the union on 22nd September. 

5. CWU POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS

It was agreed that the delegation would consider any changes to the motions when the final composites were published at the Conference itself.

6. SPEAKERS

The delegation were given the list of motions and agreed any other speakers could be put forward at the Conference.

7. PERIOD POVERTY CAMPAIGN

Natasha Burgess, Political Advisor in the General Secretary’s office, explained the work the union would be doing to campaign on our motion on period poverty at the Conference, including leafletting outside the Conference Centre as delegates made their way in; merchandise and photo opportunities on the stall; and that the union had arranged to provide free period products in the toilets at the Conference Centre.

The delegation was asked to engage in the campaign by distributing leaflets outside the Conference venue in the morning.

It was also pointed out to the delegation that Angela Rayner, MP had written an article to promote the campaign and the CWU’s work on this, which would be published online on the day of the Conference.

8. AOB

There being no other business, the meeting closed at 6pm.

The following is a report on the decisions taken by the CWU delegation at their meeting on Sunday 23rd September 2018 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Liverpool.

COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION

2018 CWU Labour Party Delegation Meeting

Princes Suite, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Liverpool

Sunday 23rd September 2018, 8.30am

PRESENT: Beryl Shepherd (President), Dave Ward (General Secretary), Tony Kearns (SDGS), Andy Kerr (Deputy General Secretary, T&FSE), Terry Pullinger (Deputy General Secretary, Postal), Craig Anderson, Graham Colk, Kye Dudd, Kate Dunning, Keith Hamilton, Scott Hartles, Kate Hudson, Karen Rose, Steve Jones, Brian Kenny, Joyce Stevenson, Alan Tate, Kate Walsh and Mark Walsh

IN ATTENDANCE: Jane Loftus, Chris Webb, Bill Taylor, Tracey Fussey, Maria Exall, Lionel Sampson, Andrew Towers, Chris Tapper and Meta Bovell

APOLOGIES: Sajid Shaikh 

1. INTRODUCTIONS AND WELCOME

Beryl Shepherd, National President welcomed all CWU Delegates particularly Keith Hamilton from South Central Postal Branch, who was attending conference as a member of the CWU delegation for the first time.

Maria Exall was attending the meeting in an ex-officio capacity as Vice Chair of TULO.

The General Secretary also welcomed delegates and observers to the meeting and gave an overview of the important issues that would be discussed during the coming days.

2. APOLOGIES

Apologies had been received from:-

 Sajid Shaikh – unable to attend as a delegate due to a family bereavement

3. ABSENCES DURING CONFERENCE

Some delegates indicated that they would be absent during some periods of the conference to attend morning fringes, and the Chair requested that she or the SDGS be notified of lengthy absences.

4. NEC CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

Andy Kerr, DGS (T&FS) gave the delegation an overview of the Democracy Review which had been conducted by the Labour NEC over the past year to enhance the democratic structures (locally, regionally and nationally) within the party. The NEC has produced rule changes and the Conference has been asked to vote on these under 8 subject areas:

 Individual Members’ Rights

 Local Structures: CLPs (CLP and Branch Structure)

 Regional Structures 

 National Structures (NEC)

 National Structures (National Conferences)

 National Structures (Leadership Elections)

 National Constitutional Committee

 Westminster Selections

Tony Kearns, SDGS highlighted to the delegation that if the Democracy Review was accepted, there would be many CLP constitutional amendments which would fall and voting on the remaining Constitutional Amendments would be discussed at a future delegation meeting.

It was agreed that the CWU would support the NEC’s position on the Democracy Review.

5. MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA & CWU EVENT

The Chair reminded delegates not to talk to the media without prior reference to Chris Webb, Head of Communications. She also emphasised the need to obtain permission from any individual before photographs of delegates were posted onto Social Media etc.

Chris Webb informed the delegation of various events planned for the week and asked everyone to be mindful of not blocking access for visitors to the CWU stand.

6. LABOUR PARTY DOCUMENTS & OVERVIEW OF CONFERENCE

Tony Kearns, SDGS ensured that all delegates had the appropriate documentation:-

 NEC Annual Report 2018

 National Policy Forum Report 2018

 CAC Report No. 1 and Appendix of NEC Rule Changes

 How Conference Works 

He also asked if anyone in the delegation wished to speak on any of the National Policy Forum sections or the Annual Report.

Scott Hartles said he would like to speak in the housing debate and Steve Jones wanted to intervene on Mental Health.

This was agreed.

7. MOTIONS AT CONFERENCE (INCLUDING CWU CONTEMPORARY MOTION)

Andrew Towers, Head of Political Strategy advised delegates that each day they would receive a Conference Arrangements Committee Report.

CAC Report No.1 issued that morning, contained the day’s agenda and the full list of all contemporary motions submitted.

CWU Contemporary Motion

Andrew explained that Labour Party Policy was made both via the National Policy Forums (NPF) which was voted on at Conference and by motions directly to Conference.

During Conference today (Sunday 23rd September), a vote would be taken on which subjects the Conference wished to discuss (4 for CLPs and 4 for Trade Unions and affiliates). The CWU had submitted a contemporary motion which would be composited within the ‘Economy’ section. 

The General Secretary would speak on this motion. This was agreed. It was also agreed that the SDGS would speak in the Brexit debate.

The delegation agreed to support the motion brought forward from the Women’s Conference (held on Saturday 22nd September) and which was printed in the CAC Report No.1.

8. ELECTIONS OF NATIONAL COMMITTEES (PAGE 37)

Various elections were being held at Conference and whilst no vote was necessary in some elections (candidates elected unopposed), a vote was necessary in others.

The delegation agreed the following: 

Conference Arrangements Committee – Division I – General Section

Five to elect (at least two women):

 Harry Donaldson (GMB) 

 Tracey Fussey (CWU) 

 Lynne Morris (Unison) 

 Emily Rowles (Usdaw) 

 Mick Murphy (Unite) – Put forward in place of Phillipa Marsden

National Auditor

Two to elect:

 Steve Jennings (GMB) 

 Chris Kitchen (NUM) 

National Constitutional Committee Division I – Trade Unions

Two to elect:

 Mick Carney (TSSA) 

 Ruth Hayes (Unite) 

9. PRIORITIES BALLOT

As previously stated (agenda item 7), trade union affiliates would choose four contemporary issues and in accordance with colleagues in TULO the General Secretary recommended the following contemporary issues in the Priorities Ballot:

1) Brexit

2) In-work Poverty

3) An Economy for the Many (CWU Motion)

4) Public investment and public services

The contemporary issues were agreed.

It was agreed that Andrew Towers (and the Chair) would collect and complete the priorities ballot paper.

10. CARD VOTES

The Chair advised that there would be a number of votes during conference and for the constitutional amendments CWU would be required to do this by submitting card votes. Each delegate was allocated a card vote booklet. These would be administered as a delegation. Therefore 4 volunteers were required to look after the card votes on the floor of conference.

The following names were put forward and agreed.

 Karen Rose (Graham Colk as deputy)

 Katie Dunning (Mark Walsh as deputy)

11. LEADERS SPEECH

The Chair advised that delegates would be eligible to attend the “Speech by the Leader of the Labour Party”. This would be on Wednesday 26th September 2018 at 12.15pm and she reminded delegates that they needed to be in the hall early to take their seats

12. POLICY SEMINARS

There are 9 Policy Seminars taking place in the Arena Conference Centre. The CAC Report No. 1 (page 12) contains the details and locations of all the Policy Seminars and delegates were asked to familiarise themselves with the details, should they wish to attend.

The Chair stated that if anyone wished to make an intervention on any subject covered in the seminars, this would need to be in line with CWU Policy and delegates should have a copy of the 2018 CWU Summary Policy Document.

13. FRINGE MEETINGS

The Chair advised the delegation that a full list of fringe meetings could be found in the Conference Guide. However, she highlighted some fringe events and receptions of particular interest or that featured CWU speakers.

14. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

There was no other business.

The Meeting concluded at 9.25am.

The following is a report on the decisions taken by the CWU delegation at their meeting on Monday 24th September 2018 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Liverpool.

COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION

2018 CWU Labour Party Delegation Meeting

Prince’s Suite, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Liverpool

Monday 24th September 2018, 8.15am

PRESENT: Beryl Shepherd (President), Dave Ward (General Secretary), Tony Kearns (SDGS), Andy Kerr (Deputy General Secretary, T&FSE), Terry Pullinger (Deputy General Secretary, Postal), Craig Anderson, Graham Colk, Kye Dudd, Kate Dunning, Keith Hamilton, Scott Hartles, Karen Rose, Steve Jones, Brian Kenny, Joyce Stevenson, Alan Tate, Kate Walsh and Mark Walsh

IN ATTENDANCE: Jane Loftus, Chris Webb, Bill Taylor, Tracey Fussey, Maria Exall, Lionel Sampson, Andrew Towers, Chris Tapper and Meta Bovell

APOLOGIES: Kate Hudson 

1. CONFERENCE ARRANGMENTS COMMITTEE (CAC) REPORT NO.2

CAC Report No.2 issued that morning, contained the day’s agenda and the results of the Card Votes and Contemporary Motions Priorities Ballot (in Appendix 2 on page 21). The Constitutional Card Votes re the Democracy Review would be announced at Conference.

The eight subject areas selected for debate were:

Top 4 Issues from Affiliates Ballot	Top 4 Issues from CLP Ballot
Brexit	Housing
An Economy for the Many	Schools System
Government Contracts	Justice for the Windrush
In-work Poverty	Palestine

Composite Motions

As a result of the Compositing Meetings, 4 composite motions were agreed and listed on pages 11 – 17.

 Composite Motion 1 – Housing 

 Composite Motion 2 – An Economy for the Many

 Composite Motion 3 – In-work Poverty 

 Composite Motion 4 – Schools System 

The General Secretary recommended that the delegation support all 4 Composite Motions.

The delegation agreed to support the composite motions.

Emergency Motions

In addition to the Composite motions, there were 2 Emergency Motions which would be debated during today’s session:

 Emergency Motion 1 – Grenfell Tower

 Emergency Motion 2 – Industrial Crisis in the Car Industry

The General Secretary recommended that the delegation support the 2 Emergency Motions.

The delegation agreed to support the Emergency motions.

2. INTERVENTIONS / SPEAKERS

The following delegates indicated that they would like to speak:

Kye Dudd	Post Bank (The Chair said she thought it unlikely that we could find a suitable slot for this)
Scott Hartles	Composite Motion 1 – Housing
Steve Jones	NPF Report on Mental Health (This would probably be Wednesday morning)

3. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

i. The General Secretary explained the Labour Party NEC position on Brexit and CWU policy;

ii. Delegates were reminded of the Fringe meetings taking place where the General Secretary would be speaking;

iii. Delegates were also reminded of the World Transformed sessions;

iv. Chris Webb gave details of the arrangements for the CWU Event.

The meeting concluded at 8.35am.

The following is a report on the decisions taken by the CWU delegation at their meeting on Tuesday 25th September 2018 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Liverpool.

COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION

2018 CWU Labour Party Delegation Meeting

Princes Suite, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Liverpool

Tuesday 25th September 2018, 8.15am

PRESENT: Beryl Shepherd (President), Dave Ward (General Secretary), Tony Kearns (SDGS), Andy Kerr (Deputy General Secretary, T&FSE), Craig Anderson, Graham Colk, Kye Dudd, Keith Hamilton, Scott Hartles, Kate Hudson, Karen Rose, Steve Jones, Brian Kenny, Joyce Stevenson, Alan Tate, Kate Walsh and Mark Walsh

IN ATTENDANCE: Jane Loftus, Chris Webb, Bill Taylor, Tracey Fussey, Maria Exall, Lionel Sampson, Andrew Towers, Chris Tapper and Meta Bovell

APOLOGIES: Andy Kerr (Deputy General Secretary, T&FS), Terry Pullinger (Deputy General Secretary, Postal) and Katie Dunning

The Chair opened the meeting and placed on record thanks to the Comms team and all involved in organising the CWU Event. All feedback was extremely positive.

1. CONFERENCE ARRANGMENTS COMMITTEE (CAC) REPORT NO.3

CAC Report No.3 issued that morning, contained the day’s agenda and the result of the Priorities Ballot (in Appendix 6 on page 49) and Card Votes (1 to 8) (in Appendix 4 on page 42), and as a result a number of Constitutional Amendments had fallen.

2. BREXIT

There were five Composite Motions as listed below to be debated today:

Composite Motion 5 – Brexit

Composite Motion 6 – Government Contracts

Composite Motion 7 – Government Contracts

Composite Motion 8 – Justice for the Windrush Generation

Composite Motion 9 – Palestine

It was agreed to CWU would support all of the composite motions and that the SDGS would speak in the Brexit debate.

3. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

There are 12 Constitutional Amendments left to be debated at today’s Conference session. The SDGS suggested that the delegation follow the NEC recommendations apart from the following:

Vote		Revised Recommendation
13	Annual Standing Orders		Oppose
17	Abolition of Registered Supporter Status		Support

The SDGS recommendations were agreed.

4. POTENTIAL INTERVENTIONS/SPEAKERS

The following delegates indicated that they would like to intervene in the debate.

Steve Jones

Composite Motion 8 – NPF Report on Mental Health

This was agreed.

5. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

The Chair advised that there would not be a delegation meeting on Wednesday 26th September. 

The meeting concluded at 8.55am.

Any enquiries on the above LTB should be addressed to the General Secretary’s office gsoffice@cwu.org.

Yours sincerely

Dave Ward

General Secretary

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Royal Mail Area Representative & Royal Mail Area Representative Substitute Elections – 2018

Branches will be aware that the Senior Deputy General Secretary is required to publish a standard election timetable for the RM Area Rep/Substitute positions. The timetable applies to positions that cover more than one branch area, i.e. those RM Area Rep elections, which are currently organised by the Regional Secretary. Accordingly the timetable for the 2018 RM Area Rep elections is as follows: 

Nominations Open: 20th November 2018
Nominations Close:  4th December 2018

In line with the above policy I have asked Regional Secretaries to co-ordinate these elections and to contact branches and advise them of the arrangements for the positions which are subject to election within their respective areas.

Branches are reminded that candidates must have received the nomination of their own branch and if ballots are required we will advise the respective branches of the ballot timetable in due course.

Branches should also note that any ballots will be conducted on an individual member basis of those members eligible to vote and that the costs incurred for the ballots would have to be met from the relevant Branch(s) funds. The Regional Secretary will discuss the detail of this with the Branches.

Also please note that it has been agreed that any candidates taking part in a ballot will be entitled to submit the following biographical and election information:

1. Biographical Details up to a maximum of 100 words.
2. An Election Statement of no more than 300 words. 

Please note that the biographical details and election address will need to be provided to the respective Regional Secretary by the close of nominations on 4^th December 2018. Any information received after this date will not be included with the ballot information.

In addition any elections will be conducted in line with the attached Guidelines and I would also take this opportunity to remind branches and candidates that they have a responsibility to treat fellow candidates with respect and they must ensure that no election material is published that could be deemed as either offensive or abusive.

Please note that elections for Area Representatives that fall wholly within one Branch boundary are the responsibility of the Branch, however if required, assistance can be sought from the Regional Secretary regarding these elections.

Any enquiries regarding this LTB should be addressed to the Senior Deputy General Secretary’s Department on telephone number 020 8971 7237 or email address sdgs@cwu.org.

Yours sincerely,

Tony Kearns
Senior Deputy General Secretary

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Area Rep Guidelines 2018

REDESIGN – IMPLEMENTING OUR NEW REGIONAL & EQUALITY STRUCTURES

Further to LTB 635/18, the main purpose of this LTB is to expand on the work we are doing, in accordance with the decisions of the Redesign Conference, to take forward our new regional and equality structures.

As part of this and as stated in LTB 635/18, the Redesign Team continues its work in identifying and preparing the necessary Rule Changes that flow from the Policies agreed at the Special Conference.

In this regard, Branches will be aware that this work must be completed within the normal timeline for publishing to Branches the rule changes to be presented to the Rules Revision Session of General Conference 2019. Therefore, we can confirm that we are currently working to a deadline for Rule Changes to be published to Branches by 5thFebruary 2019. 

To meet both this timeline and to take the actions needed to implement agreed policy not requiring a rule change, Branches will understand that between now and the 5thFebruary 2019 there is a substantial amount of work to be done. The element of this that relates directly to the implementation of our new Regional and Equality structures is being advanced as follows:

New Regional Structures

The CWU has agreed to implement a reinvigorated, much changed and more focused Regional Structure. The positive changes agreed at Conference are central to delivering the Union’s agenda of reasserting Trade Union values across society and working for major political change. Within the new Regional Structure there are a significant number of new positions and the Redesign Team are currently looking at the process for introducing these. We will also be working with our Regional Secretaries to develop implementation plans for each region, which will be consistent with an overall national approach.

New Equality Structures

The clear decisions taken in Bournemouth enable us to make positive changes that bring all our equality work into mainstream union structures, whilst also developing new equality strand networks at regional level that will be far more accessible to Branches, Representatives and members.

Crucial to this – for the first time – is having the joined up approach agreed by Conference that will connect all equality work via a restructured HQ department, the NEC, new Conference arrangements, Regions and their new strand networks. To facilitate the transition from our previous structures to the new structures, we can confirm the following:

From Tuesday 20th November, Trish Lavelle will take on responsibility to lead the Equality Department through transition and the merger with our Training, Education & Learning Department. Trish will continue in this role until General Conference 2019, at which point the situation will be reviewed. We will also be putting in place additional support and utilising, where appropriate, our NEC Equality strand members to ensure a smooth transition.

Additionally, on 26th November 2018, we have arranged a meeting of all the existing Advisory Committee members to discuss all the issues associated with the implementation of our new structures. In the meantime, we can advise that we are planning on the basis of the existing equality strand conferences still taking place in the New Year and the dates for these will be published soon.

Further information on the general implementation of all policies agreed at the Special Redesign Conference will be published as our work progresses.

Yours sincerely

Dave Ward Tony Kearns

General Secretary Senior Deputy General Secretary

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BREXIT

All Branches and Representatives will have seen the important developments overnight on the Brexit withdrawal agreement.

We want to assure you that provision will be made for the NEC to have a comprehensive discussion on the overall situation when it meets on Thursday 29^th November.

However, the situation is fluid and as well as the need to assess the content of the agreement and its potential implications on our members and the industries they work in, we will also be monitoring very closely the various political scenarios that may emerge in the coming days and weeks. These include the Tory Party no confidence vote in the Prime Minister and the debate and vote that will take place in Parliament on the proposed deal.

In the meantime, the union will continue to be active online in support of our policy to call for a General Election.

Further information will be sent out in due course.

If you have any further enquiries regarding this LTB, please contactgsoffice@cwu.org

Yours sincerely

Dave Ward

General Secretary 

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HSE(NI) – Annual Report 2017-2018

To: All Branches

Dear Colleagues,

The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland HSE(NI) has published its 2017-2018 Annual Report.

The Annual Report shows a decrease in the number of workplace fatalities but a significant increase in workplace injuries, with major injuries up by 27% on last year and all reportable injuries up by 13%.

In 2017-18 workplace fatalities were down by 5 (31%) to 11 compared to 16 in the previous year. Farm-related fatalities increased by one with seven deaths and construction fatalities remained unchanged with three fatalities in 2017-18 as in the previous year.

The HSE(NI) stated that whilst it is encouraging that workplace deaths are down slightly, it’s disappointing that serious workplace injuries are significantly up by a staggering 27%. The enforcing authority added that no matter what sector people work in, everyone has the right to come home safe and well after a day’s work but the statistics clearly show some parts of some industries need to do more. While HSE(NI) is keen to advise companies on how to meet their legal requirements, they said they will not hesitate to take enforcement action and prosecute where there is a clear danger to the health and safety of Northern Ireland’s workforce.

HSE(NI’s) new Corporate Plan 2018-2023 (See LTB 645/18)  focuses, not only on the causes of fatal accidents, but also on those activities and work areas where the most serious injuries and cases of ill health are known to occur. Over the coming years, these are areas which HSE(NI) aims to collaborate with partners and industry sectors including Safety Reps to drive the numbers down.

HSE(NI) has a major challenge with the Northern Ireland Farming Industry which still has a poor safety record, with seven deaths compared to six the previous year. Any one of the four main causes – Slurry, Animals, Falls and Equipment – can cause a serious injury or farm death. Sadly in 2017/18 there are still too many accidents of all types on farms. HSE(NI) and its partners in the Farm Safety Partnership will continue efforts to provide information, advice and support, but HSE(NI) states that it’s vital that farmers play their part as well by making safety a priority on their own farms. Many of the risks encountered can be minimised by taking a moment to stop and think about safety and taking simple measures to keep themselves and others on the farm safe – failing to do so ultimately results in tragedy.

The Annual Report highlights the work HSE(NI) undertakes ranging from partnering with organisations to providing advice and raising health and safety awareness to its enforcement and inspection role.

During 2017-18 HSE(NI), in conjunction with local councils, raised the issue of ‘slips and trips’. HSE(NI) reports that they also carried out 6,233 safety inspections and served 216 formal enforcement notices (Prohibition and Improvement Notices) where poor health and safety practice was found.

Key Facts and Figures for 2017-18

In areas where HSE(NI) has enforcement responsibilities, key trends in work-related injuries are as follows:

• fatalities down 31% to 11, compared to 16 in the previous year;
• fatalities in the agriculture sector increased by 1 from the previous year with 7 in this sector;
• major injuries up 27% on last year; and 
• all reportable injuries up by 13% on last year to 1,898.

During the year, HSE(NI):

• continued its Farm Safety Partnership work through the second Farm Safety Action Plan and the launch of the FSP Affiliate Scheme;
• reached over 13,400 children in 104 rural primary schools with its “Be Aware Kids” farm safety messages;
• involved 3,300 pupils from 74 primary schools in its Child Safety on Farms Poster competition and distributed 41,500 copies of the calendar produced from the winning entries;
• delivered, in conjunction with local councils, a health and safety initiative to raise awareness of slips and trips;
• completed seven successful prosecutions, which saw fines totaling £173,750;
• achieved UKAS Accreditation for its Scientific Services Unit;
• delivered 6,233 inspections and served 216 formal enforcement notices;
• dealt with over 1,898 reportable work-related injuries and 869 complaints about alleged unsatisfactory working conditions and activities;
• prepared three sets of regulations, initiated consultations on four regulations and published two revised Approved Codes of Practice;
• submitted an Annual Equality Report to the Equality Commission;
• organised six key events which attracted over 1,000 participants;
• held or attended 122 promotional events including seminars, lectures, workshops and presentations;
• distributed over 52,800 free publications giving health and safety advice;
• dealt with 3,979 calls for information via its Freephone Helpline; and
• enabled website visitors to download 102,943 publication files.

There are 124,000 businesses in Northern Ireland and the public sector.

A copy of the HSE(NI) Annual Report 2017/18 is attached.

Yours sincerely

Dave Joyce
National Health, Safety & Environment Officer

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