Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved:-

(i)        in respect of the discussion around lone working and risk assessments, to note that the Corporate Management Team were currently reviewing training across the Council, including consideration of which training should be mandatory, and proposals would be taken to a future meeting with Trade Unions to discuss further;

(ii)       also in respect of the discussion around training, to note that the Council’s new Human Capital Management System would hold data on training undertaken and would send out alerts where mandatory training had not been completed;

(iii)      in respect of the 77 incidents which were as a result of physical assault of an employee by a service user (section 3.6, page 64 of the report), to request that officers provide information to Members and Trade Union Advisers on how many of the 77 incidents had not been investigated;

(iv)      in respect of the Near Miss information at 3.24 in the report (page 66), to request that officers clarify whether the figures in the table had been double-counted; and

(v)       to otherwise note the report.

With reference to article 7 of the minute of its previous meeting, the Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Governance which summarised the statistical health and safety performance information for the three month reporting period April to June 2018, to enable the Committee to monitor the Council’s compliance with health and safety legislation.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      review, discuss and comment on the issues raised within the report; and

(b)      scrutinise and review health, safety and wellbeing policy, performance, trends and improvements.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.