Consultation on health and safety

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21. Consultation on health and safety
21.1.1 Cooperation between management and workers should be an essential
element in applying the provisions regarding occupational safety and health at an
opencast mine.
21.1.2. The measures taken to facilitate the cooperation should include, where
appropriate and necessary, the appointment of workers' representatives and workers'
safety and health committees or a joint safety and health committee. In a joint safety
and health committee, workers should have equal representation with employers'
representatives.
21.1.3. Workers' representatives and workers' safety and health committees or
joint safety and health committees should:
21.1.3.1. be given adequate information on safety and health matters, enabled to
examine factors affecting safety and health, and encouraged to propose
measures on the subject;
21.1.3.2. be consulted when major new safety and health measures are envisaged and
before they are carried out, and seek to obtain the support of the workers for
such measures;
21.1.3.3. be consulted in planning alterations of work processes, work content or
organisation of work which may have safety or health implications for the
workers;
21.1.3.4. be given protection from dismissal and other measures prejudicial to them
while exercising their functions in the field of occupational safety and
health as workers' representatives or as members of safety and health
committees;
21.1.3.5. be able to contribute to the decision-making process at the level of the
enterprise regarding matters of safety and health;
21.1.3.6. have access to all parts of the workplace and be able to communicate with
the workers on safety and health matters during working hours at the
workplace;
21.1.3.7. be free to contact labour inspectors;
21.1.3.8. be able to contribute to negotiations in the enterprise on occupational safety
and health matters;
21.1.3.9. have reasonable time during paid working hours to exercise their safety and
health functions and to receive training related to these functions;
21.1.3.10. have recourse to specialists to advise on particular safety and health
problems; and
21.1.3.11. have authority to consult and be represented by their respective
organisations, provided this involvement does not result in the disclosure of
commercial secrets.

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