Health, Safety and Environment - International Labour Organization

Manual 3:HEALTH, SAFETY & ENVIRONMENTFOR WORKER HS&E REPRESENTATIVESTry not to allow general HS&E checks to become a routine chore where youlook at the same things each time. You can guard against this by: carefully planning different types of checks changing the emphasis of the check always talking to your membersGeneral check of the living environmentMany agricultural workers live where they work, on plantations and onfarms. Consequently, their working environment is not separated from theirliving conditions. Equally, workers’ families often live close to or on thefarms and plantations. They may be exposed to similar risks to workerswithout even realising it, and may become ill as a result.It is important under these circumstances, for trade unions to be interestedin: the conditions under which their members and members’ families live the impact of the working environment upon their familiesUnions should make sure that employers extend HS&E issues beyond theconfines of work to the living places of these categories of workers andtheir families/communities.91 Health, Safety and EnvironmentA Series of Trade Union EducationManuals for Agricultural Workers