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Posted By Rachael Ford
Hi
I work for an NHS Trust and we are currently updating our Health & Safety Committees terms of reference. If anybody has any good examples that they are willing to share, I would welcome this information.
Thanks
Rachael
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Posted By Rod Douglas
Rachael,
I have e-mailed you direct, I hope it is of some use.
Yours Aye,
Rod D
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Posted By Steve Langston
Have e-mailed you direct following a similar exercise I did last year.
Regards
Steve
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Posted By Kieran Dowling
Rachael,
You don't say which side you're on: union or management. If it's the former, make sure you include the stuff from the Safety Committee and Safety Reps Regs about objectives, functions, membership and conduct of safety committees. Regulation 9 is the relevant one. Make sure it covers all aspects of H&S too, including wider occupational health issues which some employers are reluctant to discuss.
Oh, and don't have non-union people on there either!
Kieran
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Posted By Alec Wood
Does that mean that if your workforce is only partly unionised then you would need two safety committees? Or is it just the general rule that union reps will not work with non-union RoES?
I've never had the pleasure of working with union safety reps yet, well not in an OHS role anyway. I do remember when I was a union member, our safety rep was just the apprentice shop steward, it was very much an "us and them" kind of place. My next employ may well be unionised, any tips?
Alec Wood
Samsung Electronics
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Posted By Rachael Ford
Many thanks to those who have sent me terms of reference.
How disappointing to think that it is 'them' and 'us'!!!
I work for management and with the organisation covering 13,000 staff and over 100 premises there are many different H&S committee's within the Trust - local (ward or departmental), directorate, site and Trust (including board memebers).
A representative from each ward/department committee will attend the diretorate committee and a representative form here will attend the site committee. This is usually chaired by the general manager and a H&S advisor for that area who both attend the Trust h&s committee.
There is a union rep on the Trust committee and we all work well together to address issues that cannot be dealt with at a local level as well as other matters including the Trusts overall strategic direction.
I am certainly unaware of and them and us situation within this Trust - I only hope I am not being naive!!!
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Posted By Mike Craven
Rachael
Have e-mailed you direct with sample Constitutions & Functions for Corporate and Departmental Safety Committees/Forums, etc
As someone who spent 10 years as a trade union safety rep, 4 years as a Branch Secretary, sat on local/regional and national safety committees for a major public sector organisation, and was a TUC-trained tutor teaching TUC Stage 1 & S H&S courses, prior to becoming a Safety "Manager" a couple of years ago, I share other people's concerns about people talking in support of an "us and them" approach to Health & Safety.
Mike
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Posted By Alec Wood
That's good to hear. I had some trepidation about how I would deal with unionised workplaces so it's nice to know times change.
It was the reference to having no non-union people on the committee made in a posting above which worried me most
Alec Wood
Samsung Electronics
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