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Work group on EMAS
Assistance and opportunities for workers and employees
End of May 1996 this work group was initiated by Henning Eggers, shop steward and environmental manager of Heidelberg Prepress. After some years we combined the group with another work group dealing with occupational health and safety of the metal union in Kiel. The group consists mainly of shopstewards and employee representatives. Nevertheless there are also union members without function and guest participating. Any other interested people are welcome. The work group has set up the following aims:
- Evaluation of the hitherto union experience with EMAS - reports from projects
- Convince management to take part in EMAS
- Motivate colleagues
- Disseminate know-how: how to start EMAS and how to conduct it
Results
The work group discussed experience with environmental management systems with a large number of shopstewards and employee representatives in Schleswig-Holstein. The summarized results can be downloaded here (German): erfahrungen_brs.doc (26 kB). In order to make use of the vast and positive experience, the representatives can be contacted here: Network environmetally minded shopstewards and employee representatives
The work group published a brochure on environmental management systems from the representatives point of view. The brochure can be downloaded here (German): broschuere.doc (1,8 MB)
In addition to the booklet a set of slides is also available (German): arbeit_und _umwelt.ppt (1,3 MB)
Meeting date and time
The work group meets every fourth Tuesday in a month; venue is the union house in Kiel. Environmental issues alternate with OSH issues.
Contact: Klaus Kuhl, klaus.kuhl@kurkuhl.de .
Contact for OSH issues: Sönke Bock: soenke.bock@kielnet.net.
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