107. The Company agrees to install safety devices wherever such devices are needed in order to prevent accidents. The Company will furnish soap, towels, gloves, and incidental articles where necessary for the health and safety of employees. The Safety Supervisor will submit to the Union a list of jobs where gloves are to be furnished. Safety rules and instructions will be posted throughout the plant for the protection of employees. 

108. A competent staff of nurses or First Aid personnel will be available where required and necessary to insure prompt First Aid service to injured employees. Competent medical service will be provided for each employee in case of an accident on Company property, and employees suffering lost time accidents will be considered as completing their scheduled shift on which the accident occurred. 

109. The company agrees to maintain sanitary and healthful conditions in the plants and rest rooms with the cooperation of the union and the employees, and provide the necessary apparel and safety equipment to perform work consistent with good safety practices. 

109.1 Employees will receive a safety shoe allowance of $50 per year or $100 every other year. 

109.2 In order to make the Evansville Division as safe and healthy a place to work as possible. Whirlpool may utilize safety studies to identify jobs that could lead to musculoskeletal disorder (heavy lifting, awkward posture, repetitive motion). Studies may be conducted on jobs that have resulted in injury or illness that produce high turn over, or those that receive complaints by employees or the union. The safety department will be responsible for approving the studies and determining what. if any. Actions are necessary TO change the jobs. Possible actions to be taken include adding people, modifying workstations, replacing the job with automation, modifying pans and or rotating jobs. 

• If the studies show that the only reasonable option is to rotate a job or group of jobs. the following procedure would be followed before rotation would begin: 
• The jobs to be included in the rotation would he identified by the safety department. 
• The union representative(s) and affected employee would be notified of the jobs to be rotated. 
• If there are employees in the identified jobs. they will have two months to hid off the jobs. This hid would not count against the normal bids per year allowed to employees. 
• If employees bid off these jobs, the jobs would be rebid per the normal hid procedure, 

Jobs posted in the future that are part of a rotation group will he posted as such so that the bidding employees know all the jobs they will be required to do. All disagreements regarding and of the above-mentioned actions, if any, shall only he subject to the grievance procedure. 

110. Union Safety Representation 

110.1 The Company and the Union agree to promote habits of safety and health and will cooperate in a program of accident prevention and observance of safety and health rules and regulations. For this purpose, the Union agrees that it will actively encourage employees to observe all the safety and health rules and regulations prescribed by the employer, and to work in a safe manner. Also, for this purpose the Company agrees to recognize a Union Safety Representative(s). The Union Safety Representative(s) will meet with the Safety Representative(s) of the Company. The Union Safety Representative(s) shall be designated in writing by the Union to the Company. The employee who is designated by the Union shall be an employee who has knowledge of the practices in the plant. 

110.2 The meetings between the Union Safety Representative(s) and the Safety Representative(s) of the Company shall be held once each month at mutually agreed upon times. Such meetings shall consist of the Union Safety Representative(s) and the Representative(s) of the Company, first taking a tour of the plant, after which the parties shall meet together to discuss health and safety matters observed on the tour as well as other health and safety matters. The Company shall keep written minutes of such meetings and a copy thereof shall be furnished to the Union, and such minutes shall be reviewed at the next regular meeting. 

110.3 The Union Safety Representative(s) shall be allowed pay at their regular day-work rate for time lost off of their regular jobs while attending the meetings with Company representatives, but such time shall not exceed eight hours per month. 

110.4 The Company retains sole discretion to determine what action, if any. It should take regarding any suggestions or recommendations that may result from the meetings of the Company representation and the Union Safety representation. All disagreements, if any, regarding such suggestions or recommendations shall only be subject to the grievance procedure.

110.5 The disclosure of such suggestions or recommendations by the Union Safety Representative(s) to the Company shall be made on a confidential basis and shall not be released to any party without the prior written approval of the Company. Information submitted to the Union Safety Representative(s) by the Company shall be treated as private and confidential and shall not be released to any party without the prior written approval of the Company.