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Dave Joyce is the Union’s National Health, Safety & Environment Officer. Dave is a qualified Health & Safety Professional and is the Union’s lead spokesperson and negotiator on all Health, Safety, and Environmental issues dealing with employers, government departments, Ministers, and enforcing authorities (Health and Safety Executive, Local Authorities, Fire Service, and Police).

He is a member of the TUC’s Union Health & Safety Specialists Committee, and has represented both the CWU and the TUC nationally and internationally on workers' Health & Safety issues, in particular those affecting CWU members. He is now widely recognized as a leading Trade Union authority on Health & Safety at work and leads a number of CWU and Trade Union campaigns for improving occupational health & safety at work.

Dave was elected as the CWU’s Health, Safety & Environment National Officer in 2003 and was re-elected unopposed in 2008. Before that, he was Chair of the CWU’s National Executive Council’s Health, Safety & Environment Committee for 8 years. Prior to joining the National Executive at Union HQ, when the CWU was formed in 1995, he served the Union as a local Health and Safety Representative, a Branch Secretary, a Regional Secretary, and a member of the Union’s TUC delegation.