To be honest very few organisations in NZ would have "true - HSWA defined" HSR - illustrated by Air NZ winning the top award at the 2019 Safeguard awards for essentially "holding HSR elections as per the legislation". And I would also bet that a lot current HSR / Committees in NZ businesses today don't actually fulfill the intended functions under the Act anyway, regardless if those HSRs were elected or not.Since the selection of workers was made by management, IMO the people are are not HSRs as described in the HSW Worker Engagement, Participation and Representation Regs. — KeithH
As Don Ramsey suggests, an option is to conduct an election process. This is a straight forward process - with potential outcomes that management may be unaware of. See Sections 21-26 inclusive of the Worker Engagement, Participation and Representation Regs. — KeithH
I disagree with this statement Matt.Might be harder than you think guys - as one of the main reasons for this thread in the first place was that there was "very little interest from anyone to take on the role", which will likely end up in a situation where there are no eligible nominees in the showroom area... and we are back to square one of "well do we need one if no one wants to be one?" — MattD2
It should be noted, all "HSRs" volunteered and it was made optional to any person, as there was only a handful of volunteers they were all selected. — Lucille N
Agree that the process for holding HSR elections should be straight forward, my comment was specifically regarding that since there was little interest from anyone taking on the role that there is a reasonable likelihood that there might be no one to vote for (or even to just assume the position).straight forward really. — KeithH
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