HSC needs your help
May 5th 2006 The HSC has issued a consultation document to seek views on how to encourage, improve and increase worker involvement in health and safety risk management.
“Workers know the most about the jobs they do, so they are often in the best position to develop safe and practical systems of work,” says HSE chief executive, Geoffrey Podger. “It is therefore important that we actively encourage and support organisations to involve their workers.”
“We want the consultation to gather as many views as possible,” says Zoe Woodrow, policy adviser with HSE’s Worker Involvement Programme. “Both workers and employers and employers are instrumental in making involvement successful. So we want to know what managers, workers and their representatives think. We have suggested some options but we would welcome other ideas too.”
To encourage as many people as possible to participate in the consultation, HSE is also publishing a summary document to introduce the issues involved, as well as organising a number of regional meetings to encourage people to share and discuss their views.
“The feedback we receive will help s to make the right decisions about how we focus our efforts in this important area,” continues Woodrow. “We hope as many people as possible will take a look at the documents and let us know what they think.”
Click here for the downloadable Consultative Document, the summary document and the feedback form.
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