Health and Safety are not just two words we should say, they should be understood and acted upon. They are in essence the two words that get us home after work to whoever or wherever we go. Welcome to the inaugural Health and Safety Bulletin on our Local 9511 website. My name is Jan and for those of you who do not know me, I have the privilege of being the Health and Safety Chair for our Local. I have been doing this for about 3 years now. This will be a monthly part on our new website that I will present.
Lets start with the basics.
What is Health, the World Heath Organization defines it as ” A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.
What is Safety in the Workplace. It can be broken down as follows.
Assessing, quantifying, and analyzing safety aspects to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. Using safety audits, inspections, incident tracking and employee feedback to measure safety.
Our jobs as employees is to do our best to ensure Health and Safety at work is met and followed. I could go on and on about the ways that the company gets us to not stay focused on this task. Next month I will talk about the top things that are done to get us to sway from keeping ourselves Healthy and Safe.
I look forward to taking on this for you the membership. Like a good show I will leave you with a cliffhanger, but it will be less than an month to get this very important information out.
Looking forward to going on a journey to better work environment with you my fellow members.
Thanking you in Solidarity
Jan