Respect and Effective Voice
We commit to enhancing the health, safety and wellbeing of, and ensuring an effective voice for, our workers and employees. We will do this by providing clear expectations of our values, ensuring the health and safety of all, and keeping a constructive dialogue between the employer, employees, workers, and (where appropriate) a relevant trade union/s to address workplace issues, ensuring fair, transparent, and communicative practices to ensure effective voice is provided as a minimum, at an individual level, and also at a collective level.
Clear values
Developing
We have an established induction programme for all workers and employees that clearly outlines the organisational values and standards of behaviour expected from all workers and employees.
We have Health and Safety policies and procedures in place.
Achieving
We provide health and wellbeing training and resources to all workers to promote and support open conversations about mental health.
We ensure managers are trained in how to support workers health and wellbeing.
Excelling
We have established employee network groups such as ethnic minority, women’s, LGBT+ or disability networks with clear aims and objectives to provide avenues for effective employee voice.
We provide occupational health services to all workers.
Effective Voice
Developing
Informal arrangements are in place through which meaningful individual and collective dialogue can take place, including one-to-ones between workers, employees and management, appraisal/feedback processes, team/organisation meetings, regular surveys etc.
Achieving
We have established policies and/or practices that embed worker voice in key governance and decision-making structures.
Formal arrangements are in place through which meaningful individual and collective dialogue can take place, including one-to-ones between workers, employees and management, appraisal/feedback processes, team/organisation meetings, regular surveys etc.
Formal scheduled arrangements are in place with employee/worker representatives and trade unions (where recognised) to discuss key aspects of worker welfare
Excelling
At a collective voice level, employee/worker representatives and trade unions (where recognised) are represented in key governance and decision-making structures.
Additional voice channels are embedded in workplace policy and practice that provide voice at an individual and collective level in workplaces.