There needs to be a series of safety stewards to feed information to the union members on the joint committee. The system needs to be broad enough to be representative of your facility. Each facility is different, and you need to custom craft your organization. There needs to be a window of communication with management. This is the joint labor-management committee.
Information is power.
You get this information from the membership, the International Union, company safety professionals, company policies, etc. If there are minutes, there needs to be a mechanism to have input into how the minutes are developed, what is in them, and their distribution. Try to solve problems at the lowest possible level through the safety stewards, just as you would grievances. If they cannot be solved there, they go to the joint committee. Road Map for Health and Safety Committees 8.