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

18LTB480 Safe & Well – August 2018

Safe and Well Issue 61 August 2018