Worker Involvement - Resources

What resources will employee representatives need as committee members?

It is good practice to provide both health and safety representatives appointed by trade unions and those elected by your employees the same resources, although you are only required to do this for union-appointed representatives. Employee health and safety representatives need to have:

Being a member of the health and safety committee is part of a person's role as a health and safety representative, so they should not suffer a loss of pay when they attend meetings or carry out other activities on behalf of the committee.

2021-09-30