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Worker involvement

The best way to protect your employees and visitors from harm or illness is to involve your workers. This website shows you how.

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• Health & safety representative?

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Safe & Sound at Work

New website and training for SMEs to help improve worker involvement.

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Further advice

• "There has to be genuine employee participation..."
  Judith Hackitt, HSE Chair

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What the law says

The law sets out how you must consult your employees and the different choices you have to make.

Find out what the law says

Safety representatives

Useful information to help Safety Reps do their work, and materials to use in your workplace.’

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• Worker involvement
• The basics
• Health and safety representative
• Prepare
  • Talk to your employees
    • Facts and figures
  • What the law says
    • Which regulations apply
    • 1977 regulations
    • 1996 regulations
    • Both regulations
    • Employment protection
  • Gain commitment
    • Encourage employees
  • Union-appointed reps
    • Represent
    • Attend training courses
    • Contact with inspectors
  • Workforce-elected reps
  • Elections for representatives
    • How many representatives?
    • How often will elections take place?
    • Encourage and involve employees
    • Fair and open election
  • Prepare - good practice tips
    • Consult your workforce
    • Joint involvement
    • Don't decide for your employees
    • Reflect diversity
    • Train your reps
    • Give it time
    • Shared perspective
• Plan
  • Factors to consider
  • What to consult about
    • A competent person
    • Risk assessments
  • When to consult
  • Training
    • Training Providers
  • Planning checklist
  • Plan - good practice tips
    • Scope of consultation
    • Consult employees
    • Provide feedback
    • Address health issues
    • Involve employees
• Consult
  • What your duties are
    • Allow paid time off
    • Provide facilities and assistance
    • Provide information
  • How to involve your employees
    • Consulting directly with employees
    • Consulting indirectly with employees
    • Where English is not the first language
    • Consulting with representatives
      • Investigating accidents, hazards and complaints
      • Inspections of the workplace
  • Set up a H&S Committee
    • How to set up your H&S committee
    • How your H&S committee will work
    • Membership of your H&S committee
    • More about membership
    • Frequency of meetings
    • What your H&S committee will do
    • Decision making
    • What resources will be needed
  • Consult - good practice tips
    • Recognise the role
    • Different work patterns
    • Preferences
    • Involve the representative
    • Plan a programme of inspections
    • Agree the number of representatives
    • Inspect together
    • Consult specialists
    • Break down tasks
    • Involve a variety of people
    • Think about minor incidents
    • Plan meetings in advance
    • Communicate
    • Keep the date
    • Address strategic issues
    • Agreements
    • Disagreements
• Improve
  • Monitoring performance
  • Reviewing progress
  • Meet the challenges
  • Review checklist
  • Improve - good practice tips
    • Signs of success
    • Seek help
• Worker involvement News
• Worker involvement Events
• Resources
  • Publications
  • Case studies
    • Devonport Docks
    • Overcoming challenges
    • BT Group plc
    • Springfield Fuels
    • UCATT North-West
    • University of Leeds
    • Bristol City Council
  • Research
  • Speeches
    • Lord McKenzie
  • Videos
    • Judith Hackitt
  • Useful links

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