I was just wondering how everyone organises their Health and Safety Committees. We have received a request from Union for a Health & Safety Committee to be set up. We already run a monthly Health and Safety Meeting/Group which consists of Union reps, Managers and reps from across the organisation and encourage anyone to attend the meeting and to raise issues regardless of grade etc (we didn't want to give the impression it is just managers on the group) we discuss accidents, audits, specialist issues, agree and develop H&S procedures and develop safe systems of work.

Union have requested that there is a committee set up and that the current group does not meet this requirement and they would like half management half union to make up the group.

I was just wondering how other organisations set their committees up and what the make up of the group consisted of?

I didn't feel there was much of a difference between the current meeting and terms of reference as oppose to the requested Committee. What does everyone else do?