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injuries;

• Initial identification of a number of specific locally-based

agency-based, or hazard-based accidents, illnesses, or injuries
for the committee to focus on pursuant to (3)(b) below;

• Development of timelines for scheduled review of known
hazards, injuries, illnesses and accidents;

b. Ongoing development and implementation of strategies that will
reduce and/or mitigate hazards, injuries, illnesses, and accidents

that have been identified as a result of the ongoing review. Such

development and implementation shall include:
• The establishment of a process for meaningful consultation

with both local and agency level employees and managers on
potential strategies contemplated by the committee before such

strategies are approved for implementation;
• Identification of other areas for expansion of

developed/implemented strategies to reduce/mitigate other

workplace hazards, injuries, illnesses, and accidents;
c. Review of the effectiveness of implemented strategies to reduce
and/or mitigate workplace hazards, injuries, illnesses, and

accidents.

(b) The committee shall meet as soon as practicable following the
ratification of this Agreement and then, at a minimum, quarterly thereafter.
(c) The committee shall include representatives of CSEA and GOER.

Each side shall appoint five representatives to the committee.

(d) The committee shall have the power to access funds made available
pursuant to Article 15.2(d).

Article 12

Probationary Employees
§12.1 (a) A permanent employee holding a position in the competitive,

non-competitive or labor class who accepts an appointment from an open-
competitive eligible list, or to a permanent, non-competitive position at a

higher salary grade within his or her own agency or in a different State
agency, shall be granted a leave of absence from his or her former position

for the period of his or her actual probation.
(b) If an employee returns from a leave of absence as provided for by this

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