Consultation is a legal requirement and an essential part of managing health and safety risks. A safe workplace is more easily achieved when everyone involved in the work communicates with each other to identify hazards and risks, talks about health and safety concerns and works together to find solutions.
Why is health and safety consultation important at the workplace?
Consultation is a legal requirement and an essential part of managing health and safety risks. A safe workplace is more easily achieved when everyone involved in the work communicates with each other to identify hazards and risks, talks about any health and safety concerns and works together to find solutions.
What is consultation and why is it important?
Consultation means asking for and considering employees’ views when making decisions. Consultation is important during major workplace change. This means any change to the business that will affect employees in a significant way, for example different working hours, duties, work locations or redundancies.
Why is consultation an important part of Victoria’s health and safety laws?
Consultation between employers and employees in workplaces is very important. The Act encourages discussion, particularly through employee health and safety representatives and joint health and safety committees, made up of both management and employee representatives.
What does consultation mean in health and safety?
Consultation involves you not only giving information to your employees but also listening to them and taking account of what they say before making any health and safety decisions. The law does not state when you must consult, or for how long, but does say it must be ‘in good time’.
What is the purpose of consultation?
The purpose of a consultation is to hear out the person’s needs and help identify a plan of attack for solving their problems and accomplishing their goals.
What is consultation in health and safety?
Why is it important to develop and implement consultative activities?
WHS consultative activities help identify possible workplace hazards, assess the risks of employees and eliminates risks. Decisions are made according to the adequacy of the facilities to provide safety and health to workers.
