CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL

 

To: Councillors Smart (Chair), Dryden, Liddle, Smith, Stebbings, White

Alternate Member : Knowles

Unison (G Cuffley), GMB (R O’Leary).

 

(Despatched and placed on deposit 26 February 2003).

 

Joint Staff Employer Forum

 

Date:              Thursday 6 March 2003

 

Time:             4.30 pm

 

Place:            Council Chamber, The Guildhall

 

Contact:        Liz Whitcher               Telephone 457015

E-mail Liz.Whitcher@cambridge.gov.uk

 

 

                                                                    Agenda

 

1.      MINUTES

 

To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 24 October 2002 as a correct record.

 

2.      MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES

 

Members are requested to contact the Head of Human Resources or Committee Manager prior to the meeting with any issue they wish to raise.

 

3.   APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

 

4.   DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

 

Members are asked to declare at this stage any interests which they may have in any of the following items on the agenda.  If any member is unsure whether or not they should declare an interest on a particular matter, they are requested to seek advice from the Head of Legal & Democratic Services before the meeting.

 

  5.   PUBLIC QUESTION TIME – see below for detail of the scheme and other public information.

 

6.   HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES, AS EMPLOYERS – THE WAY FORWARD

Report by the Head of Environmental Health & Waste Strategy

and the Head of Human Resources

 

                Appendix 1: Cambridge City Council Health and Safety Policy

            Appendix 1a: Pictorial representation of the City Council’s health and safety arrangements

            Appendix 3: Accident analysis for the year 2001-2002

            Appendix 4: Joint Health Safety Committee Work Programme 2003

 

      7    DATE OF NEXT MEETING

 

            Members are requested to bring their diaries so that the officers can discuss the next date for the Forum either in the week beginning 2 June or the week beginning 23 June. This is to take account of the GMB and Unison Conferences.

 

 

Information for the public

 

You are welcome to attend this meeting as an observer, although it may be necessary to ask you to leave the room during the discussion of matters which are described as confidential on the agenda.

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You can ask questions on an issue included on the agenda below, or on an issue which is within this committee’s powers. If you wish to ask a question related to an agenda item contact the committee officer (listed above under ‘contact’) before the meeting starts.  If you wish to ask a question on a matter not included on this agenda, please contact the committee officer by 10.00am the working day before the meeting.  Further details  concerning the right to speak at committee can be obtained from the committee section.

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In the event of the fire alarm sounding  (which is a continuous ringing sound), you should pick up your possessions and leave the building by the route you came in. Once clear of the building, you should assemble on the pavement opposite the main entrance to the Guildhall and await further instructions. If your escape route or the assembly area is unsafe, you will be directed to safe areas by a member of Cambridge City Council staff.