- About
- Take Action
- News
- Coronavirus
- Coronavirus Resources for Workers
- Recursos de Coronavirus para Trabajadorxs
- COVID-19 Resources from National COSH
- COVID-19 Worker Fatalities
- COVID-19 Campaigns and Toolkits
- COVID-19 Fact Sheets by Industry
- COVID-19 PPE and Safe Cleaning
- COVID-19 Workers Comp, Paid Sick Time and other Benefits
- COVID-19 Government Resources
- COVID-19 Relief Bills
- COVID-19 Multilingual Resources
- Resources
- Campaigns
- Conference
- About the Conference
- Sobre la Conferencia
- COSHCON Registration - Inscríbete en COSHCON
- COSHCON2020 Program Outline / Esquema del Programa
- Sponsorship Opportunities
- Exhibit at COSHCON
- COSHCON2020 Promotion and Social Media / Promoción y redes sociales de COSHCON2020
- Unions @ COSHCON
- 2019 COSH Awards
- 2019 Conference Highlights
- Workers' Memorial Week
- 2020 Dirty Dozen Report
- La Docena Sucia de 2020
- 2020 Dirty Dozen Video
- El video 2020 de La Docena Sucia en español
- Faces of Workers' Memorial Week 2020
- 2020 WMW Social Media Toolkit / Kit de Herramientas Social Media
- Family Resource Guide
- Guía de Recursos para la Familia
- Fatality Database
- WMW Resources
- Semana Conmemorativa de los Trabajadorxs Caídos
- 2020 WMW Webinar
- Workers' Memorial Week Archives
You are here
How would a workplace health and safety committee in the workplace relate to the COVID protection plan?
This question is from a series of questions and answers on Worker Rights and Strategies for Staying Safe During COVID-19 created by National COSH to support workers during the pandemic.
HOW WOULD A WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE IN THE WORKPLACE RELATE TO THE COVID PROTECTION PLAN?
- Health and safety committees should be the cornerstone of every workplace health and safety program.
- Committees need to have significant participation from workers and worker representatives. Worker representatives should be selected by workers themselves, not tapped by management.
- Some states have required health and safety committees and most union contracts have health and safety committees specified. Many employers have committees set up with worker volunteers.
- Health and safety committees should monitor the workplace COVID-19 Protection Plan.
- Any reports from workers that indicate lapses in the plan’s implementation should be investigated by the committee and recommendations should be implemented.
- Visit nationalcosh.org for more information on forming and using health and safety committees.

- Susi's blog
- Log in to post comments
- 591 reads