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Social Workers - Chief Executive Office - Los Angeles County

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ARTICLE 37 SAFETY AND HEALTH<br />

Section 1. Parties' Responsibilities<br />

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It is the duty of Management to make every reasonable effort to provide and maintain a<br />

safe and healthy place of employment. SEIU, Local 72, will cooperate by encouraging all<br />

employees to perform their work in a safe manner. It is the duty of all employees in the<br />

course of performing their regularly assigned duties to be alert to unsafe and/or unhealthy<br />

practices, equipment, and conditions and to report any such unsafe and/or unhealthy<br />

practices, or conditions to their immediate supervisor.<br />

If such condition cannot be satisfactorily remedied by the immediate supervisor, the<br />

employee or his representative may submit the matter in writing or verbally in case of<br />

pressing emergency to the local facility safety officer or the departmental safety officer, if<br />

there is no local safety officer. The safety officer will respond within five (5) working days.<br />

If the employee or his representative is not satisfied with the response of the safety officer,<br />

SEIU, Local 721, may consult with the <strong>Chief</strong> of <strong>Workers</strong>' Compensation and Occupational<br />

Health Branch of the <strong>Chief</strong> Administrative <strong>Office</strong> or his designate. A representative of such<br />

branch shall respond to the department head and SEIU, Local 721, within ten (10) days.<br />

If SEIU, Local 721, is not satisfied with the response of the <strong>Chief</strong> of Worker's Compensation<br />

and Occupational Health, the issue may be taken within ten (10) days to arbitration as set<br />

forth in Article 29. During such ten (10) days, consultation between the department head<br />

and SEIU, Local 721, will take place.

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