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(c) The purpose of the Committee shall be to review and discuss matters

of mutual concern in the area of safety and health in a proactive cooperative

fashion. The Committee is not intended to be policy making or regulatory
in nature, rather, it is intended to be advisory on matters of employee

safety and health. The Committee shall foster its objectives in the following
ways:

(1) Awareness - to raise the consciousness of the State work force,
regarding issues of occupational safety and health.

(2) Education - to develop and implement programs which will
enhance skills and knowledge pertaining to general and job-specific

safety and health matters.
(3) Enrichment of Agency Level Safety Committee Activity - to

encourage, foster and assist agency level safety committee activity to
consider the funding of labor/management initiated projects and

proposals that deal with safety and health related matters that seek to
identify, analyze and prevent on-the-job accidents and injuries

through fact- finding and appropriate training.
(4) Development of a Statewide Safety Communications Network - to

integrate the Committee’s activities with the preventative safety and
health efforts of State departments and agencies, their safety

designees, the CSEA, Inc. in-house safety and health efforts and
various advocacy groups established to review and improve safety and

health practices, procedures and working conditions.
(5) Study and Research - to undertake appropriate study and re-

search projects aimed at various occupational groups, in order to

better understand broad safety and health related concerns, and to
make recommendations for meaningful resolution of safety and health
deficiencies identified by such projects.

(a) Funding for Safety and Health Initiatives

The State shall seek the appropriation of funds by the Legislature in the
amount indicated in each year of the 2016-2021 Agreement: $675,990 in
2016-2017, $689,509 in 2017-2018, $703,300 in 2018-2019, $717,366 in

2019-2020, and $731,713 in 2020-2021, to support Committee initiatives

which shall include but not be limited to:
(1) Video Display Terminal Operations

Continuing its efforts with respect to VDT operations and will make

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