BARGAINING UNIT 6 CORRECTIONS - California Correctional ...

or camp. If a safety committee already exists, CCPOA shall have one
representative on that committee.
D. Any employee designated by CCPOA as representative to the Health and Safety
Committee shall suffer no loss of regular pay as a result of attendance at such
meetings; however, no overtime compensation will be paid. Normally, meetings
will be scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
E. Meetings of the Health and Safety Committee shall be held a minimum of once
each quarter, with a goal of meeting once each month, upon receipt of written
agenda items from any committee member. Agenda items shall be delivered or
mailed, at least five (5) days prior to the meeting day, to the
Warden/Superintendent/CDC Regional Administrator, or his/her designee.
F. The Warden/Superintendent/CDC Regional Administrator, or his/her designee
shall serve as chairperson of the Health and Safety Committee, and be responsible
for scheduling meeting dates, times, and locations.
G. The Health and Safety Committee shall meet, identify and discuss safety issues,
make recommendations, promote safety and encourage all employees to be more
safety conscious. Security is an appropriate topic of discussion if it impacts on
employee safety.
H. It is understood that references to safety and health conditions of work are not
intended to include those hazards and risks which are an ordinary characteristic of
the work or are reasonably associated with the performance of an employee's
responsibilities and duties. It is not the intent of this section to prevent full
discussion of proposed remedies to any safety hazard or risk which is an ordinary
characteristic of the work or is ordinarily associated with the performance of an
employee's responsibilities and duties. This shall include the opportunity of either
party to discuss those Health and Safety grievances which cite concerns other than
a clear and present danger.
I. If minutes of the Safety Committee meeting are taken, a copy shall be provided to
the CCPOA representative on the Committee.
J. The Health and Safety Committee shall, at its regularly scheduled meetings,
review and make recommendations for the responses to safety grievances referred
to it. Recommendations to the second level reviewers of the Health and Safety
grievance procedure shall be within a reasonable period of time, but not to exceed
thirty (30) days from the initial review of the Committee.
K. The State shall familiarize all members of the Health and Safety Committee with
SB-198.
7.02 Emergency Care
A. Whenever an employee receives an on-the-job injury, or becomes seriously ill and
requires immediate attention, the employer shall make his/her best efforts to
immediately obtain or provide appropriate first-aid or medical care. If immediate
hospitalization is required, the State shall take the employee to the nearest
hospital facility which is able to render the appropriate treatment and care in the
most expeditious means available.