Health, Safety and Environment - International Labour Organization

Manual 3:HEALTH, SAFETY & ENVIRONMENTFOR WORKER HS&E REPRESENTATIVESensure that policy formulation includes HS&Euse journals, press releases, videos, CD Roms, radio and televisionprogrammes to promote union HS&E policiesrun HS&E training and education programmes which can includecourses for: union educators/facilitators in education techniques and thetechnical aspects of HS&E to provide a pool of educators/facilitatorswho can run members’ courses and study circlesgeneral membership training/awareness raisingwomen workersunion officers, national HS&E committee members, and branchofficials worker HS&E representativesWe will now consider some of these organisational factors in more detail. Worker HS&E representativesActivity – The job of the worker HS&E representativeAIMSTo help us to: share experiences of tackling health, safety and environmental issues identify the jobs of a worker HS&E representativeTASKIn your small group, discuss: if you have specific worker HS&E representatives, or do existing unionrepresentatives take on HS&E responsibility as well as their other duties? what role you and other worker HS&E representatives play in the workplace the main jobs of the worker HS&E representative, based upon the experience ofgroup members or your ideas of what you think a worker HS&E representativeshould do what skills you need to do the jobElect a spokesperson to report back71 Health, Safety and EnvironmentA Series of Trade Union EducationManuals for Agricultural Workers