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<blockquote data-quote="ll_MDX_ll" data-source="post: 3829352" data-attributes="member: 59390">Safety committees overall is mixed bag of sorts. Guiding your co-workers to work properly and safely is great, however that&#039;s something that you&#039;d normally be doing to a new hire anyway when working with them.It seems like that&#039;s all they do anyway, other than setting up &#039;safety tables&#039; every 1-2 weeks (covering same stuff you see in PCMs/training), and giving out &#039;safety bucks&#039; to people working safely, which I barely ever see given away at all. Not really much that screams &#039;above-and-beyond&#039; to me. They do have a cookout every end of the month for no injuries. However, I feel like that just encourages people to not report minor injuries, though I feel like most wouldn&#039;t even bother to anyway.I got roped back into being the safety rep for my area since I am now the only candidate out of all 3 people on my belt. I did notice for that week I got an additional &#039;Training&#039; pay for 40min of normal wage, I assume for attending a meeting, which is funny because I don&#039;t think it even lasted anywhere near that long. Though I&#039;m not sure if being a safety rep is the same thing as being in the safety committee, I did get that extra pay, so I&#039;m guessing our building is apparently one of the few that gives out extra pay for the safety committee.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ll_MDX_ll, post: 3829352, member: 59390"] Safety committees overall is mixed bag of sorts. Guiding your co-workers to work properly and safely is great, however that's something that you'd normally be doing to a new hire anyway when working with them. It seems like that's all they do anyway, other than setting up 'safety tables' every 1-2 weeks (covering same stuff you see in PCMs/training), and giving out 'safety bucks' to people working safely, which I barely ever see given away at all. Not really much that screams 'above-and-beyond' to me. They do have a cookout every end of the month for no injuries. However, I feel like that just encourages people to not report minor injuries, though I feel like most wouldn't even bother to anyway. I got roped back into being the safety rep for my area since I am now the only candidate out of all 3 people on my belt. I did notice for that week I got an additional 'Training' pay for 40min of normal wage, I assume for attending a meeting, which is funny because I don't think it even lasted anywhere near that long. Though I'm not sure if being a safety rep is the same thing as being in the safety committee, I did get that extra pay, so I'm guessing our building is apparently one of the few that gives out extra pay for the safety committee. [/QUOTE]

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