Cleaning Industry Liaison Forum

Cleaning Industry Liaison Forum (CILF) terms of reference April 2012

Section 1: Aim To improve health and safety in the cleaning industry

Objectives

• To establish a forum for liaison between enforcing authorities, representatives of employers, employees and other appropriate interested parties;
• Promote and improve the standards of health, safety and welfare at work in the industry;
• Discuss existing and proposed legislation and how it affects the industry;
• Disseminate relevant legislation and produce guidance where necessary;
• Consider relevant guidance and information produced by other industries where this may be relevant;
• Monitor and review developments within the industry as they impact on health, safety and welfare at work;

Section 2: Ways of working

• The Cleaning Industry Liaison Forum shall meet two times per year and on other occasions as necessary
• As a general principle, the decisions of CILF should be by consensus, ie decisions should be agreed by all members present with out recourse to voting. If a consensus cannot be reached, the Chair may call for a vote to be taken.
• The CILF may devolve appropriate work to working groups or individuals. Where work is devolved the task, the outputs and timescales of the work to be carried out will be clearly defined. Working groups or individuals should provide CILF with regular feedback as to progress with their work.
• Meeting papers will be generally open documents in terms of access to government information.
• The terms of reference should be reviewed every two years.
• The CILF Forum shall operate its policies and procedures and any guidance materials produced with due regard to diversity, gender sensitivities and people with disabilities.
• The CILF Forum will promote the safe procurement, use and disposal of equipment and chemicals and acknowledges that environmental legislation may also be applicable at times.

Section 3: Membership

Cleaning Industry Liaison Forum

Chair:

Commercial and Consumer Services, HSE Glasgow

Secretariat:

Commercial and Consumer Services, HSE Glasgow

HSE representatives:

Slips and Trips Programme, Disease Reduction Programme, Public Services Programme

Local authority representatives:

City of London
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)

Trade associations/employer representatives:

British Cleaning Council (BCC)
British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc)
Darwin Clayton (UK) Ltd (Insurance Brokers)
Federation of Window Cleaners
Industrial Cleaning Machine Manufacturers' Association
In-depth Managed Services Ltd
OCS Group UK Ltd
UK Housekeepers Association
Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners

Employee representatives:

UNITE
Unison