Worker involvement checklist

Have workers as well as management been involved in determining the company safety policy?

Do you have representatives of employee safety and a health and safety committee?

Is your health and safety committee dealing with strategic matters or burdened with day-to-day problems that are better resolved elsewhere?

Are all health and safety committee members equal partners?

Have safety representatives, supervisors and other staff been trained to enable them to play an equal role in the health and safety committee?

Can employees set the health and safety agenda during team meetings?

Is there a system for staff to make a positive input to improve health and safety performance?

Do ideas for health and safety initiatives come from the workforce?

Are your employees involved in long-term health and safety initiatives?

Does your company provide cover for workers to enable attendance at safety meetings and training courses?

Are the people who carry out particular tasks involved in the risk assessment of those tasks?

Are workers involved in writing safe working procedures?

When changes are planned, are workers fully involved?

When accidents are investigated, are safety representatives fully involved?

Do health and safety audits actively include safety representatives as well as managers?