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► Employment rights
Students on placements face many challenges. This section of the website has been set up to clarify where placement students stand in relation to employment law.
If you have any questions then please contact or visit the Advice & Representation Centre in the Students' Guild.
Health and Safety
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 your employer must ensure that nothing that happens at work makes you ill or injures you (this is known as the "duty of care").
This applies to both paid and unpaid placements.
What this means:
The duty of care could involve guarding machinery, making sure chemicals you work with are safe, and ensuring you can take breaks when you are tired. It even includes providing adequate canteen and toilet facilities.
Every employer must have a health and safety policy, explaining how they will manage health and safety, and who is responsible for what. Your employer must identify the hazards you might face at work, assess the risk that these hazards will affect you and detail the steps that will be taken to prevent those risks.
Health and safety at work is very important. Many students do not understand their rights and this has led to them working in some very dangerous conditions. Under health and safety law you have both rights and responsibilities.
Your employer must:
* provide you with adequate employers' and public liability insurance cover
* make sure you are not injured or made ill at work
* train you to deal with health and safety issues
* provide an accident book to record work-related injuries
* inform and consult you or your union representative on all health and safety issues.
You have:
* a duty to work safely by co-operating with your employer, and following safety guidelines
* a right to refuse to do something dangerous if you feel you are in 'imminent and serious danger' (Employment Rights Act, 1996)
Useful Links
The Trades Union Congress A guide for students
Other helpful pages:
ACAS (Employment Advice) http://www.acas.org.uk
National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/life/employment.htm
Health and Safety Executive http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/index.htm
Equality and Human Rights http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/
Disability Rights Commission http://www.direct.gov.uk/DisabledPeople/Employment/fs/en Lesbian and Gay rights http://www.tuc.org.uk/tuc/rights_gay.cfm
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