Occupational health and safety management system (OHSAS 1800 1) is to comprehensively standardize and improve the occupational health and safety management of enterprises, ensure the occupational health and life safety of employees, ensure the property safety of enterprises and improve work efficiency. It can improve public relations with the government, employees and communities, and enhance corporate reputation; Provide a mechanism to continuously meet the requirements of laws and regulations. Eliminating accidents has become an occupational health and safety certification standard widely adopted by the international community.
The Occupational Health, Safety and Hygiene Management System has made detailed provisions on the environment, hygiene, health and safety management of enterprises.
To a great extent, the system reflects the duties and functions of trade unions, objectively reflects the specific contents of the daily work and functions of trade unions, and democratic management is embodied and embodied in various forms in the system.
First, the initial embodiment of the trade union function in the occupational health, safety and health management system.
(a) Clear responsibilities of trade unions
1. It is clearly stipulated in the Occupational Health, Safety and Health Management Manual that trade unions have the right to assist and urge administrative units to implement various provisions on labor protection; Can organize and carry out various forms of safety competition activities; Can participate in the investigation of major casualty accidents and organize relevant departments to deal with the aftermath; At the same time, it is responsible for the supervision and inspection of the implementation of consultation and exchange, and the position of trade unions in this system structure is very clear.
2. In the procedural documents corresponding to the elements of "Control Objectives and Indicators Management Scheme", the supervisory function of the trade union is also clarified, that is, "supervising the improvement objectives and activities involved in the realization plan undertaken by the management of the company".
3. In the "Food Hygiene Management Procedure", "Staff Health Protection Management Procedure" and other documents, the supervisory function of the trade union women workers' committee is defined, that is, it is responsible for supervising the protection of women workers' rights and interests, so that trade union work can penetrate into all fields of enterprises.
(B) workers' rights are clear
The core content of occupational health, safety and health management system is the management of occupational health, safety and health, which has the most direct relationship with employees.
1. system responsibility elements stipulate that employee representatives have the right to "participate in hazard identification and risk assessment; Participate in the formulation of target management plan; Participate in security consultations and exchanges; The right to collect safety rationalization suggestions.
2. In the Employee Health Management Procedure Document, the principle of employee representative supervision is emphasized.
3. In the document "Management Procedures for Consultation and Communication", the contents of consultation and communication within the enterprise are clearly defined, and the function of "supervising consultation and communication" is given to trade unions and employee representatives.
This system endows trade unions and workers' representatives with the functions of consultation, exchange, supervision and inspection, and realizes the rights of workers' representatives to participate in enterprise management and implement democratic management according to law.
(C) the emergence of the role of trade unions
Through investigation and analysis, the certification and implementation of occupational health, safety and health management system have enabled trade unions to play a better role. After the implementation of this system by individual foreign-invested enterprises, it shows that the trade unions of enterprises put forward suggestions and opinions to enterprises or relevant departments according to the rights and obligations entrusted by the trade union law and the responsibilities entrusted by the system, and put forward suggestions and opinions on the continuous improvement and continuous improvement of the system, and participate in solving various problems of safeguarding the rights and interests of employees. In the system, the role of trade unions has been played to a greater extent, so that trade union work is no longer divorced from enterprise management. It has realized the organic combination of trade union work and enterprise production and operation management, further enhanced the cohesion of enterprise employees and the competitiveness of production and operation, and finally achieved the goal of "win-win".
The second is about improving the functions of trade unions in the occupational health, safety and health management system.
Occupational health, safety and health management system is OHSAS standard issued by several most famous standard system research and certification institutions in the world. Its implementation has expanded the space and provided guarantee for the trade union work in enterprises. Therefore, we must seriously explore and seek effective ways to do this work well.
(A) trade unions should attach great importance to the sources of participation.
In order to improve the management level of enterprises in an all-round way, foreign-invested enterprises attach great importance to the implementation of various system certifications, and trade union organizations should actively participate in them, so that trade union organizations of enterprises can be included in the implementation and operation departments of management procedures. To this end, trade unions should keep abreast of the dynamics of enterprise management and be ready to cooperate with various functional departments at any time to participate in the certification of enterprise management system; To strengthen learning, we must have the accumulation of basic knowledge of various management systems; According to the industry characteristics and management requirements of each enterprise, pay attention to the share of trade union work in each system element.
(2) Where is the system?
The investigation shows that although the functions of trade unions are clearly defined and embodied in many aspects of the system, it is still necessary to actively find the joints and actively intervene according to the rights, obligations and basic tasks entrusted by the trade union law and the articles of association of China trade unions, and strive to fully implement the rights, obligations and basic tasks in the system.
1. Among the elements of the system, "organization and responsibility" and "training, consciousness and ability", as the operating department of the system, the trade union should establish a firm position in the system and give full play to its role in safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of employees, supervising the implementation of various provisions on labor protection, realizing the participation of employee representatives in management, organizing employees to carry out mass production and rational suggestions, and technological innovation activities.
2. Among the "legal" elements of the system, trade unions should grasp and understand the existing laws, regulations and policies in a timely manner, especially the relevant information related to the interests of employees, and report it to the relevant departments of enterprises in a timely manner, so that enterprises can understand and implement relevant policies and regulations in a timely manner and earnestly fulfill their right to "supervise the implementation of relevant laws and regulations". 3. Among the "consultation and communication" elements of the system, the trade union can organically combine the established equal consultation collective contract system with the system, continuously consolidate and improve the mechanism in the process of system implementation, and further coordinate the enterprise labor relations.
4. Among the elements of the "target and index management plan" system, the trade union can extend the "management commitment and plan" to include wages and benefits, working hours, social insurance and other related matters involving employees' major interests.
5. When implementing the elements of "work and control" and "corrective and preventive measures", the trade union organization may, according to Articles 23, 24 and 25 of the Trade Union Law, give the trade union the right to supervise and make suggestions on the illegal operation of enterprises, obvious hidden dangers of major accidents, infringement on the legitimate rights and interests of employees, and at the same time bring this supervision into the system and play its role.
6. With the help of many rights given to employee representatives by the system, such as "participating in the formulation of target management plan", "participating in consultation and exchange" and "collecting reasonable suggestions", the content of employee participation in management is concrete, and the role of employees in the implementation of the system is fully exerted. At the same time, according to the relevant provisions of the system, major issues involving the vital interests of employees are submitted to the employee representatives for deliberation.
The implementation of occupational health, safety and health management system provides a new platform and carrier for trade unions to carry out their work effectively. Trade unions should make full use of this opportunity, actively explore and practice, establish a firm position within the system, and integrate the work content and functions of trade unions into the system more.