A colleague mentions that deliveries keep blocking a walkway. It’s been raised before, but the problem keeps coming back. As a health and safety representative, how do you take that concern forward?
The second module in IBTC’s Occupational Health and Safety Short Course focuses on the rights, powers and duties of a workplace health and safety representative. You’ll learn how to raise concerns, take part in workplace health and safety structures and follow up on issues that affect your colleagues.
In the walkway example, it helps to get specific. Where is the obstruction? When does it usually happen? Who uses that route? A clear description gives the people responsible for the area something concrete to investigate. Keeping a record of when you raised the issue and what was agreed also makes it easier to follow up if it happens again.
Completing this module earns you 5 SAIOSH CPD points.
