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Higher Education Safety and Health Forum (HESH)

Background

The Higher and Further Education Industry Advisory Committee (HIFIAC) now no longer exists. Workplace health and safety issues in higher education are now taken forward through a new tripartite structure, the Higher Education Safety and Health Forum (HESH).

Membership is drawn from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), the Trade Unions, and HSE. The current membership is:

Mr Jim Foulds
Pro-Chancellor Bristol University (UCEA)
Mr Clive Parkinson
H&S Adviser to UCEA, Surrey University
Mr Mike Salmon
Director of Occupational Safety, Health and Environment, and Chair of the Universities Safety and Health Association (USHA), Cardiff University
Dr Richard Broughton
Health and Safety Executive
Mr John Bamford
Universities and Colleges Union
Mr Glyn Baker
Amicus
Ms Penney Gilby
Unison

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."