Council and councillors

To receive Report No. 50/2019 from the Deputy Director for Places.

Report No. 50/2019 was received from the Deputy Director for Places, the purpose of which was to approve the RCC Health and Safety Policy.

Mr Oxley moved the recommendations in the report. 

Mr Oxley requested that in relation to Part C of the Policy, which was still under review, any amendments were provided to members.  Also that proposed changes to procedures were delegated to Officers, but proposed changes to policies were delegated to the Joint Safety Committee and then the final report should be brought back to Council in order to finalise and approve proposed changes to Part C of the Policy.

Mr Brown seconded the recommendations and the amendment as put forward by Mr Oxley.

During debate the following points were noted:

      i.         Under Section 17 of the report reference should be made to vaping as well as smoking;

     ii.         An Annual Report from the Joint Safety Committee would be welcomed.

RESOLVED

1)  To NOTE the approval of the Policy by Cabinet;

2)  To APPROVE the new proposed RCC Health and Safety Policy (v1.0) (attached at appendix 1 of Report No. 50/2019) subject to the requirements for further approval of Part C as detailed above.