Consult

Employees’ expertise can make a significant contribution to improving workplace health and safety.

Regular, proactive consultation can help identify issues in the workplace and build a strong commitment to health and safety by including all views in the decision-making process.

Under the Dangerous Goods (Storage and Handling) Regulations 2000, an occupier of premises where dangerous goods are stored and handled must consult with persons engaged by the occupier to work at the premises whose health or safety is likely to be affected by the dangerous goods, and any health and safety representative of those persons.

The occupier must consult about:

• induction, training, information provision, hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control; and
• any proposed changes to structures, plant, processes or systems of work that are likely to increase the risk to those persons.