Health and Safety Officer
Tasks relating to the post of health and safety officer:
- to increase the awareness of members, health and safety representatives
and branch officers of health and safety issues
- to organise the information held by the branch on health and safety
- to co-ordinate the activity of health and safety representatives and to
organise regular meetings of health & safety representatives to exchange
information and consider
priorities
- to be closely involved in all negotiations with the employer on matters
related to health and safety
- to advise the branch committee on health and safety issues arising in
the branch and to recommend policies and priorities
- to act as a link between the health and safety representatives and other
branch representatives to ensure that health and safety issues are treated
as an integral part of the work of the branch
- to maintain contact with the region and regional service groups, for
example via the regional health and safety committee.
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