Company
DS Smith
Date of signature
1 July 2018
Signatories
CEO, HRD, EWC
Key objectives
"This protocol sets out the joint understanding of the DS Smith EWC and DS Smith Senior Management on the issues relating to heat stress. "
Duration
Applicable law
Implementation and dissemination
""All sites are required to conduct a formai risk assessment to consider the health risks created by the working environment looking at both hot and (where appropriate) cold working environments.
All sites are required to take necessary action to reduce, mitigate or eliminate the risks of serious harm ( as identified by risk assessment) arising from excessively hot ( or cold) working environments. Sites are required to seek the advice of a competent person and / or expert in appropriate circumstances. Where such risks can reasonably be eliminated (as opposed to merely reduced), DS Smith will take all necessary action to eliminate them; and where such risks can only reasonably be reduced as opposed to eliminated, DS Smith will take all necessary action to reduce those risks.
Review and monitoring
Dispute settlement and sanctions
""Any complaint, whether by an individual employee or through an employee representative or representative organisation, should be made to the local site management and such complaint will be treated seriously and quickly, and in any event within 7 days of the complaint being raised.Where the complaint relates to heat stress and a real and imminent risk to health is believed to exist then an immediate response is required.
Any failure to provide an adequate response at a local level will be managed through the escalation process set out below. "" The text also provides for an escalation procedure if DS Smith EWC believes that there are specific issues at specific sites, and the local response (as detailed in Complaints) has been deemed inadequate -then the following process will be followed. Sites visits are also foreseen.
Related texts
DS Smith Employees Charter
Main topic
heat stress