The State shall attempt to provide a reasonably safe and healthy work environment for State employees. B. Recognizing this responsibility the parties agree to establish a Health and Safety Committee at each institution and where appropriate, each parole region and camp. Normally, meetings will be scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. E. Meetings of the Health and Safety Committee shall be held a minimum of once each quarter, with a goal of meeting once each month, upon receipt of written agenda items from any committee member. G. The Health and Safety Committee shall meet, identify and discuss safety issues, make recommendations, promote safety and encourage all employees to be more safety conscious.
Security is an appropriate topic of discussion if it impacts on employee safety.
It is understood that references to safety and health conditions of work are not intended to include those hazards and risks which are an ordinary characteristic of the work or are reasonably associated with the performance of an employee's responsibilities and duties. It is not the intent of this section to prevent full discussion of proposed remedies to any safety hazard or risk which is an ordinary characteristic of the work or is ordinarily associated with the performance of an employee's responsibilities and duties. This shall include the opportunity of either party to discuss those Health and Safety grievances which cite concerns other than a clear and present danger. J. The Health and Safety Committee shall, at its regularly scheduled meetings, review and make recommendations for the responses to safety grievances referred to it. If immediate hospitalization is required, the State shall take the employee to the nearest hospital facility which is able to render the appropriate treatment and care in the most expeditious means available.