ILO Convention 176 provides for worker selected health and safety representatives (HSRs) with which the South African Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA) No 29 of 1996 as amended complies. Although arrangements for worker consultation is well established in other industrialised contexts worldwide, it...
The Worker Health and Safety Representative Fundamentals online course addresses this required training for worker health and safety representatives in workplaces without a joint committee. Mandatory training can also be delivered by the employer or external training providers. To find training...
All joint health and safety committee members and worker health and safety representatives are entitled to eight hours of leave per year to attend occupational health and safety training. For information on courses near you, contact localOHS training providers. OHS courses are considered acceptable if...
Safety is one of our criteria for evaluating worksite performance at our plants. Our Health and Safety Committee, which includes employee representatives, plays a central role in the promotion of activities that, based on the discussions with employees, are customized to match the characteristics an...
Our team of qualified health and safety representatives focuses on skills development and health and safety awareness in order to provide Canadian workers and employers with the information they need to create a safe workplace. We provide online and in-person safety training at your location or our...
Empower Health and Safety Representatives and WHS permit holders to take measurements, conduct tests and take photos in the performance of their functions The changes to Industrial Manslaughter and Category 1 offences will take effect when the Amendment Bill receives Royal assent. The additional powers...
There are many reasons for this, not least the need for the workforce to have trust in them. It is unusual for workplace health and safety representatives to be dedicated purely to health and safety duties, instead they are more likely to be workers who take on the role as an extra resp...
Finally, organizational participation and involvement is evident by the integration of stakeholders including employees, unions, and health and safety representatives in the occupational health and safety process, though participation and consultation. It reflects the principle that work stress prevention invol...
HSBC is committed to identifying, removing, reducing or controlling material risks relating to health, fires, accidents or injuries to staff and visitors.
Work related stress is a real and live workplace hazard and arguably presents one of the greatest challenges to the health of the health service workforce. Figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the government body responsible for overseeing workplace health and safety, show that ...