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Safety Reps A Charter for Change
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Safety Reps A Charter for Change
October 2008
When Lord Robens produced his report on health and safety in the workplace, one of the principles that underpinned the report was the belief that the involvement of the workforce is crucial to achieving good standards of health and safety, and that health and safety systems work best when trade unions and employers work together. That philosophy also underpinned the Health and Safety at Work Act, with its legal backing of union safety representatives and the establishment of an equal voice for unions and employers on the, then, HSC.
It has been repeatedly demonstrated in studies from a range of countries that worker activity, with union support behind it, is a major factor in reducing injuries and disease at work. Statistics show that better standards of health and safety are achieved in unionised workplaces than in similar non-unionised ones. At the core of this are Safety Representatives. This report will show how safety representatives make a difference in practice and how shortcomings in the present regulations limit their effectiveness.
http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-15491-f0.cfm
"Today’s workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to be minimised."