In article ,
Andy Hall wrote:
If an individual employee has a workplace health/safety issue, then he
can make appropriate representations - it doesn't require some
intermediary to do it for him.

It may surprise you that most people are not capable of doing that. It is
generally to be so acknowledged in every forum where people are required to
put defend themselves eg in court, that people need a representative to speak
on their behalf - or a neutral adjudicator, or both.

They had already fallen throught the 'usual' management
checks and in no case did individually members of staff think they were
capable/ dared risk involvement as an individual.

This, of course, is nonsense and is simply rhetoric promoted by the
union movement in attempt to justify their existence.

Except that all the instances that I cited were from personal
experience/knowledge.

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