Implementation Of The Fbu Minimum Workplace Facilities, Best Practice Document

This Annual Conference notes that the Executive Council at its meeting held on the 16th - 18th September 2008 endorsed the FBU ʻHealth, Safety and Welfare Minimum Workplace Facilities, Best Practiceʼ document and agreed to publish and circulate it to Brigade Officials. To ensure that further implementation of it is carried out, Conference calls upon the Executive Council to: ● Negotiate at the National Joint Council for better facilities within Fire and Rescue Service workplaces using the FBU ʻHealth, Safety and Welfare Minimum Facilities, Best Practiceʼ document. ● Highlight at the National Joint Council the problems faced by our members regarding inappropriate facilities in the workplace. ● Educate FBU members continuously regarding the reason and need for separate facilities and why those facilities need to be respected. ● Carry out annual workplace surveys, via Health & Safety Representatives, to determine the standards of the facilities in each Fire and Rescue Service and; ● Regularly review and update where necessary the FBU ʻHealth, Safety and Welfare Minimum Facilities, Best Practiceʼ document.