Transcript Safety Committee

Hi: my name is:
Dessie Ferguson.
NEVER
GAMBLE WITH
ANYONE’S
SAFETY.
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Four points to Remember:
•Communication: Must be a loop system
•Dedication:
From everyone
•Partnership:
Between Management
and Employees
•Participation:
An important part of
team working.
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Safety Committees
Membership
Should be agreed between management and the employee’s
representatives concerned
Should not be over-large but should represent the interest of ALL
employees’ including the safety reps and managers involved
Management and employee’s representation should be equally balanced
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Safety Committees
Membership
People like Personnel Managers and Works Engineers should be
included as well as those with direct supervisory roles
Managers involved should be those who have necessary
expertise in relation to:
•company policy
•technical issues
•production requirements
•premises, plant, machinery and equipment
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Safety Committees
Membership
Members should interact on an equal basis - none are responsible to
(or for) others
It’s a good place to introduce effective team-working methods!
Being a member forms part of the normal working pattern
No loss of pay should be suffered, for example:
• by attending meetings
•by conducting committee’s business and safety inspections
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Safety Committees
How they should be run
They should meet as often as necessary
This will depend on volume of production and conditions
such as
•Number of employees
•Size of workplace covered
•Nature of work undertaken on site
•Type of hazards and degree of risk
Meetings should not be cancelled
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Safety Committees
How they should be run
They should be planned well in advance
All members should receive a copy of the dates and agenda
Notices of meetings should be suitably displayed on notice
boards in the workplace
Minutes of each meeting should be kept
Safety
Committee
Meeting
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Safety Committees
How they should be run
Copies should be supplied to
•every member of the committee
•every employee’s representative.
•the most senior manager with responsibilities for safety
and distributed/displayed for the workforce
Inspection reports from manager and/or reps. Should be
discussed at committee meetings and any further actions
agreed
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Objectives and Functions of Safety Committee
“Under article 4 (6) of the Order of 1978, have the function of keeping
under review the measures taken to ensure the Health and Safety at
work of employee’s. In carrying out this function safety committees
ought to consider the drawing up of agreed objectives or terms of
reference.”
“An objective should be the promotion of co-operation between
employers and employees in instigating, developing and carrying out
measures to ensure the health and safety at work of employees.”
Objectives can include the reduction of:
accident figures
insurance premiums
absences
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Objectives
The main objectives of the committee is to gain support from all
concerned for their Health and Safety efforts by encouraging such
thing as:
•Motivation, education and training so that employees
recognise and correct hazards.
•Achieving hazard controls by using designed procedures.
•Ensure hazard control procedures form part of supervisory
training.
•Compliance with Regulations and standards.
To achieve these objectives they must also form part of the
Companies Safety Policy.
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What the committee should look at and why?
Statistics of accidents,diseases, near misses and trends.
Periodic review of Risk Assessments, or after change in work process
Working practices:
Is there a Safer way of doing the process?
Safety Training:
Review of any safety training provided.
Accidents:
Causes of accidents i.e.
unsafe act or omissions
unsafe conditions
unsafe act and conditions
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CHECKLIST OF ISSUES
Topics that may be encountered.
•Housekeeping:
Daily cleaning concerns.
•Lighting:
Is the lighting suitable and efficient?
•Guards:
Are dangerous machines securely fenced?
•Fire:
How often are drills carried out?
•Welfare:
Washing/Cooking facilities.
•Recording
Under RIDDOR are all accidents and
dangerous occurrences reported.
•Other issues may be Personal Protective Equipment, Manual
handling,Noise,First Aid and any
information gained through the
Committees experiences in the Company.
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How effective can a Committee be?
This will depend on the way they function within the organisation
and actually make improvements to Health and Safety.
Encouraging proactive measures from all members of staff
Communication is essential so we all can move to the future.
Partnership its our morale duty to protect each other.
Participation, each member must take an active role in the committee
Dedication, we must put the commitment into our role as a
committee member and lead by example.
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