Further Education Safety and Health Forum (FESH)

The Further Education Safety and Health Forum (FESH) is a stakeholder forum established to deal at a strategic level with health and safety issues within the further education sector.

Membership is drawn from the Association of Colleges (AoC), trade unions, HSE and education representatives from Scotland and Wales.

Current membership (August 2011) is:

Mr Dave McGinty

The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS)

Mr David Green

The Association of Managers in Education (AMiE), the leadership section of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL)

Mr Ian Rowe

Colleges Wales/Colegau Cymru

Mr John Bamford

Universities and Colleges Union (UCU)

Ms Kathy Bow

Scotland's Colleges Health and Safety Communities of Practice

Ms Penny Neish

Association of Scotland's Colleges

Ms Ruth Sleigh

Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

Mr Stephen Green

Association of Colleges (AoC)

Mr Stephen Cooper 

UNISON

Vacancy

National Union of Students (NUS)

The terms of reference for the Forum are:

"To act as a forum for the Further Education Sector, developing partnership between employers and employee representatives and providing 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."

FESH strategy delivery tool

The FESH Forum has developed a tool to assist further education institutions in benchmarking progress on delivery of the GB Strategy for health and safety.  The tool focuses on the GB Strategy goals and how they apply in the further education sector.  The tool can be found at the Association of colleges website.  The tool is based on principles developed by the Local Government Association's National Health and Safety Practitioner Panel for local authorities.