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NATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY COMMITTEE

AFS

Report for the 2018 AFS AFM

The NHSPC is a forum for union-management consultation on national occupational health and safety (OHS) issues at CRA.  Its primary focus is developing national OHS policies and programs and providing leadership and direction to management, Work Place Health and Safety Committees (WPHSCs) and Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs).  It also addresses unresolved issues referred from WPHSCs. The NHSPC is composed of management reps and UTE and AFS employee reps.  As with the WPHSCs, there is a Management Co-Chair and an Employee Co-Chair.  Doug Mason and Allaudin Alibhai sit on the NHSPC for the AFS Group.

In 2017, some of the significant issues dealt with by the NHSPC were as follows:

  1. Asbestos – Monitored testing and reporting of asbestos in CRA occupied premises.  We are still pushing for CRA to not lease or renew leases in facilities with asbestos.

1. Work Place Violence Prevention – After three years of consultations, the procedures for resolving incidents of work place violence were finally issued.

2. Work Place Meetings and Inspections

Compliance has improved particularly for health and safety reps at CBSA locations for inspecting some part of the workplace every month.

  1. Armed Intruder Video – CRA will be adopting a video prepared by Global Affairs Canada to prepare employees to respond to incidents of armed intruders in work places.
  2. Hazards  – Continued to issue info sheets on hazards; began cyclical review of job hazards for field employees and began reviewing CBSA site procedures and training.

Respectfully submitted,

Doug Mason

NHSPC Employee Co-Chair 

Phone: 519-859-7192 

Email:  djmason.afsvfs@gmail.com

Allaudin Alibhai

NHSPC AFS Representative

Phone: 613-809-6453

Email: allaudin.alibhai@gmail.com