2.18 Safety Representatives, Roles and Safety Committees |
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1. Clifford House Commitment
The company acknowledges the importance of employee involvement in health and safety matters and the importance of the positive role played by safety representatives, safety committees and representatives of employee safety. As such, it is the intention of the company to provide the facilities and assistance that such representatives and committees might reasonably require in order to carry out their functions.
The company undertakes to consult with safety representatives over issues related to health, safety and welfare and to provide the information safety representatives and representatives of employee safety require in order to carry out their functions.
Safety representatives are required to give the company reasonable notice of their intention to carry out inspections, to provide written reports following such inspections and to follow the company's procedures when disputes over health and safety issues arise.
The company intends to establish a safety committee which will meet regularly and review safety performance within the company. The committee will consist of employer and employee representatives and will be chaired by a senior manager with the authority to act upon the decisions reached by the committee.
The company will offer safety representatives and representatives of employee safety the opportunity to attend relevant training. Additionally the company will offer paid leave for any safety representative or representative of employee safety requiring time off to carry out his or her functions or to receive any necessary training.
2. Safety Representatives and Representatives of Employee Safety
The following procedures should be observed with regard to safety representatives and representatives of employee safety:
- in the case of union appointed safety representatives, unions should inform the company in writing of the individual safety representative's appointment
- safety representatives and representatives of employee safety should understand the way in which the safety consultation and safety committee structure operates within the company - they should also be aware of the group or constituency that they represent
- safety representatives, representatives of employee safety and safety committee members will receive adequate training
- safety representatives and representatives of employee safety should be aware of the disputes and grievance procedures in operation within the company
- safety committees should meet as scheduled, there should be agendas for meetings and minutes should be carefully recorded - Information about these meetings should be available to the entire workforce
- the safety committee chairperson should have the authority to act upon the committee's decisions
- safety committees should have terms of reference and properly formulated aims and objectives.
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