The union believes that deaths, injuries, and ill health are caused because employers fail to provide a safe and healthy working environment, and often over-rely upon personal protective equipment (PPE). In fact, (PPE) should only be used as a last resort and only then to supplement other control methods.
The employer should provide a working environment that is safe and without risks to health and does not damage the environment, identify hazards in the workplace carry out workplace risk assessments before exposing workers to hazards, identify and put into place risk management prevention and/or control measures to eliminate or minimize the risk from the hazards identified, provide full information to workers, provide good health and safety training programmes, provide opportunities for workers and their trade unions to be consulted about all aspects of health safety and environment.
