Safe & Well – August 2018 – CWU Eastern No5 Branch

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