LTB 480/18 – Safe & Well – August 2018
No. 480/2018
22 August 2018
Our Ref: NS1/16
Safe & Well – August 2018
To: All Branches
Dear Colleagues,
Please see attached the August edition of Safe and Well newsletter with contributions from our USRs and field teams.
The August 2018 issue contents include:
- Drivers: using the VRM system
- Drivers: remember to Prove It in a RTC
- Vehicles: if the steps don’t fit
- Near Misses: razor blades and faulty hammers
- AMS Box: updates for August
- Incident: live voltage in welfare room
- Incident: battery burns
- Incident: MDF electrical shock
- Equipment: check your crocs!
- Wildlife: more winged horrors of summer
- Action: check you aren’t creating a pallet panic
- Info: updates on the pre climb check – on hold
- Info: “That’s How” video on Licence to Manage
- Equipment: KJB5 fixing the faulty lifters
- Health and Wellbeing – Don’t twist and shout/how to get other help and support
Thanks to TSO colleagues for sharing their incidents/near misses with us – we have highlighted a couple of these as they relate to our teams as well.
Yours sincerely
Dave Joyce
National Health, Safety & Environment Officer