Union Approach to Health and Safety: - United Steelworkers

STEP #5: TABULATE AND DISTRIBUTE THE RESULTS
It is important to distribute survey results back to members. People are more
likely to participate in future surveys if they know how this one turned out.
While workers often experience health and safety problems as individual
problems, a report or survey results show that many people are experiencing
similar problems. The message comes across loud and clear: these are
collective problems that need collective solutions.
Results can be reported on at a union meeting, in the union’s newsletter, or
in a special report distributed to the membership. It is best to choose some or
all of these methods to reach as many workers as possible.
It is also important to include not only the results of the survey, but what the
union now intends to do, based on what was learned from the survey. An
action plan of some sort can be presented, along with ways in which
members can be involved in the tasks identified.
Progress reports can be distributed to keep the membership informed on
progress in accomplishing the goals and objectives included in the action
plan.