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Motion A81 was remitted  NEC Attitude: remit/oppose

That this ADC recognises that RSI is the scourge of the modern office and instructs the NEC:

  1. to campaign through the TUC & other bodies for research into the various forms of RSI.
  2. to campaign in Parliament for H & S regulations to be introduced to help eradicate this condition.

Motion A535 was carried NEC Attitude: support

There is currently a legal minimum temperature that employers are obliged to maintain in the workplace, yet no maximum temperature limit is held in law, despite excessively high temperatures having the potential to cause severe and often life-threatening damage to the human body.

Conference instructs NEC to lobby Members of Parliament in the Parliamentary Group to raise a Private Member’s Bill designed to achieve legislative change, providing a maximum temperature for the workplace, and further, to lobby them to work with the

Motion A82 was remitted  NEC Attitude: oppose

This ADC recognises the excellent contribution that “Hazards” makes to the national and international campaigns on  Health and Safety issues. There is an annual Hazards Conference, to which Trade Union bodies are invited to send Health and Safety Representatives.

The purposes of the Hazards Conference is to help further Health and Safety Campaigns and it also provides outstanding workshop events for both experienced and inexperienced Health and Safety Representatives to improve their skills, share experience and knowledge, provides networking opportunities between representatives and to bring those attributes back into the workplace.

PCS is significantly under-represented at Hazards Conference in comparison with other Trade Unions. Presently sufficient funds are

provided to PCS Equality Department to allow 10 Health and Safety Representatives to attend the annual Hazards Conference.

This Conference accepts that this number of delegates is inadequate and instructs the NEC to provide sufficient funds, including travel and subsistence claims, to allow 30 Health and Safety Representatives to attend the 2007 and future Hazards Conferences. 

The method of selection for PCS delegates to the annual Hazards Conference will be determined by the NEC in consultation with PCS Equality Department, and will be based on the following principles:

  1. The PCS delegation will consist of 30 elected Health and Safety Representatives.
  2. The delegation will be drawn from a wide variety of Groups within PCS.
  3. The delegation will include an equal balance of experienced and inexperienced Health and Safety Representatives.

Guillotined: A83

Government of the day to place a maximum workplace temperature on the Government’s own agenda.  Conference also instructs NEC to campaign vigorously in pursuit of this via the PCS delegate to the TUC, and to seek support from across the Public Sector.

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