A Safety Representative shall consult with employees, and make representations to the relevant management, on Safety, Health and Welfare matters relating to the site.
The intention of these consultations is to:
help Site Management prevent accidents and ill health
help encourage employees to become constructively inv-olved in the prevention of accidents and ill health
help employees highlight issues to management before they become problems, and
help find practical solutions.
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However within his/her role as a Safety Representative he/she should actively encourage workers to report and highlight unsafe conditions and practices.
Where a worker high-lights unsafe conditions or practices to the Safety Representative, this must be brought to the attention of the relevant management party.
As a trained Safety Rep-resentative if he/she is of the view that there is
serious or imminent danger to a person or persons, then this risk must be reported immediately to the relevant management party.
Where the Safety Representative is asked by a worker to highlight an unsatisfactory condition or practice, then this can be rep-orted at an agreed time to Site Management, e.g. before or after a rest period or at the end of the working day, whichever is sooner.
When the Safety Rep-resentative makes a representation to the relevant management party, they MUST consider these rep-resentations and act on them as appropriate.
If it is not practicable to put suggestions made, into effect, then the relevant management party should explain the reason(s) for this.
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