Health and Safety October Update
 Topic of the month –
Driving for work Most of us drive for work to one
extent or another, whether it is regular long-distance trips to work at
client sites, or short infrequent trips to collect stock or collect some
envelopes from Asda. As a company we need to look at all our driving activities
and introduce appropriate and proportionate controls where necessary. For RCD this will involve making
sure staff can drive legally, are competent, have safe vehicles and that our
work arrangements (shift times and lengths etc) allow for safe driving.
Keep an
eye out for the email notification to link to the October toolbox talk
(please read, sign and return) and our driving for work arrangements and risk
assessment, which have been uploaded to the documents section of BrightHR -
accessed through a browser on the button below or the BrightHR app on your
phone. |
 Upcoming Health and Safety
Training We have just procured a
new training management system called HandSHQ. As part of the set-up of the
system we have created role-based training profiles, meaning that a number of
training courses have been identified as required depending on the role you
do, and which you may not previously have been asked to complete. As a result of this you will start to receive email
notifications from the HandsHQ system and/or Angela or myself advising that
training needs to be completed, by when and how to access the course. We know
we can’t do all this at once, so we are approaching it in a pragmatic way,
but we will start to drip feed these through to you over a period of time
depending on whether the course is eLearning e.g. driving for work, or in
person training such as the recent non licensed asbestos course (see photo
above!). Please complete these as promptly as possible when you are
notified. |
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 Reminder - Storeroom Housekeeping! When
dropping off or collecting stock from the storeroom or the container at the office
please leave the areas tidy. A recent audit found pretty much all the
walkways cluttered with stock and inaccessible! |
Quick updates
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Reporting
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Vehicle
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Ladder and Equipment checks |
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If you have
any safety concerns or suggestions relating to your work, or you need to
report an incident you can now use the BrightSafe app Log in, click
on the pink ‘+’ sign and select ‘report a hazard’. You can also do eLearning
through the app. |
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Further to our
many emails, a reminder that you must carry out your weekly vehicle
checks. We shouldn’t have to start chasing you individually – if you have any
problems let us know! |
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We are starting to introduce our asset
tracking system. |
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