paul clyndes rmt national health and safety officer ariops conference 2014
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Paul Clyndes
RMT National Health and Safety Officer
ARIOPS Conference 2014
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•Last presentation to ARIOPS from RMT was in 2006.
•Interesting to review what, if anything, has changed!
•Certainly older, fater and greyer!•But are we any wiser?
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RMT OH Provider Survey 2013
• 100% OH Provision (90%)
• 10% “in house” provider (50%)
• 85% within HR function
• 100% link to MFA
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TUC 2014 Safety Rep Survey
The five most frequently cited
hazards in 2014 were stress, bullying/harassment, overwork, back
strains and slips, trips, falls on a level.
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Stress
• 67% identify as top 5 hazard
• 32% rank it as the top hazard
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Bullying/harassment
• A growing concern
• Now ranked as a top 5 hazard
• 37%(‘10), 41%(‘12), 46%
• Theme for RMT’s annual conference
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Back strains/Slips, trips and falls
• Back strain listed by 33%
• STF listed by 32%
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Back to 2006
“There should be a partnership between relevant managers, OH
Professionals and safety reps so we can jointly identify health problems,
devise solutions which can be implemented and reviewed.”
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What have we achieved?
• Collaboration has become the key to success.
• Many examples of the sort of joint working the unions called for.
• Major improvements within NR, ORR and RSSB.
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Back to 2006
“Where partnerships do not exist safety reps should have the ability to raise concerns over workers health issues
through a formal system and management should have a duty to
respond.”
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What have we achieved?
• Less success here.
• Second opinions rare.
• Conflict between different health care providers.
• Role of the safety rep in OH provision
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“First you socialize medicine andeverything else follows like night
follows day.”
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