Safety Hour Call 12th January 2016

67 Close Calls reported last week –Remember to encourage reporting of close calls as you come across things.

69% – Safety Hour Attendance last week  – Great effort this week! We really need to keep pushing our safety hour attendance / weekly safety conversations to get up to our 75% target.

1. Incidents – This Week

03/01/2016 Southampton Central Station – Brockenhurst Station – 5B81 was routed from Platform 1 at to the up goods loop and reported a Possession Limit Board (PLB) and detonators on an open line.
08/01/2016 Epsom – Ewell East – Member of Wimbledon P-Way tripped on a wooden step edge and grazed his right hand . The incident was Closed Called.
10/01/2016 Southampton – A member of Eastleigh Signal works sustained an injury to his lower back and left gluteal after falling whilst undoing a tight lock on a tubular stretcher.
11/01/2016 Feltham Junction – Project Manager reports a tamper has struck the railhead causing superficial scrape on the top of the rail head.

Good News Story!! – There was 7 suicide interventions last week. Brilliant effort!  Please see below a couple of useful links/material on suicide intervention.

https://nspsglearningtool.co.uk/  – Click “Register”. Some usefull videos within.

http://www.samaritans.org/your-community/saving-lives-railway/suicide-and-railways/working-prevent-railway-suicide/guidance

2. Safety Alert – 650V incident 25.12. 15

3. Sleeper Incident Story Board

4. Clapham Health Surveillance Notification

5. Up-and-coming Icy Weather – Winter Safety Brief – Icy Roads

6. Driving in Flood Water – LNE EM Safety Hour CM P14 Driving in Flood Water

7 . Preparation for Floods –  LNE EM Safety Hour CM P13 Preparation for Floods

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