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<blockquote data-quote="scoobypanda" data-source="post: 359041" data-attributes="member: 13957"><p>9 years ago my shop steward saw the importance of using safety and the safety committee as a tool. He asked me to join and a few years ago when our co-chair went into feeder the stewards asked me to become co-chair. We put our strong union guys on the committee and management has no say whatsoever in who we bring in. We bring in people who are genuinely interested in improving workplace safety and if they in any way reduce our credibility we remove them. Our safety picture has improved almost 400% over the last 6 years. Steward involvement is the key to earning credibility with the workforce and squeezing management's balls is the key to gaining genuine improvements. They know our committee is a necessary evil so to speak and they in turn use our excellent safety numbers to keep their bosses at bay when we miss production numbers or volume development numbers. We use them, they use us, and everyone wins. We showed years ago that as the paid day increases, our injury rate goes up. We now run just over 9 hour paid day, including union time, safety activities and coffee.I have heard a lot on this forum about ineffective committees and it saddens me. If you are genuinely concerned with their ineffectiveness I urge you to take over. Make it YOUR committee. Read the language, the union chooses who can or cannot be involved and there are tons of useful and effective things things that can be done. Use your brains and balls and be patient. It will take time to turn management around if they are set in their ways and believe that it is their committee.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scoobypanda, post: 359041, member: 13957"] 9 years ago my shop steward saw the importance of using safety and the safety committee as a tool. He asked me to join and a few years ago when our co-chair went into feeder the stewards asked me to become co-chair. We put our strong union guys on the committee and management has no say whatsoever in who we bring in. We bring in people who are genuinely interested in improving workplace safety and if they in any way reduce our credibility we remove them. Our safety picture has improved almost 400% over the last 6 years. Steward involvement is the key to earning credibility with the workforce and squeezing management's balls is the key to gaining genuine improvements. They know our committee is a necessary evil so to speak and they in turn use our excellent safety numbers to keep their bosses at bay when we miss production numbers or volume development numbers. We use them, they use us, and everyone wins. We showed years ago that as the paid day increases, our injury rate goes up. We now run just over 9 hour paid day, including union time, safety activities and coffee.I have heard a lot on this forum about ineffective committees and it saddens me. If you are genuinely concerned with their ineffectiveness I urge you to take over. Make it YOUR committee. Read the language, the union chooses who can or cannot be involved and there are tons of useful and effective things things that can be done. Use your brains and balls and be patient. It will take time to turn management around if they are set in their ways and believe that it is their committee. [/QUOTE]
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