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

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

Safety Hour Attendance last week – 0% – Mainly down to Christmas Holidays. Tuesday 29th December Safety Hour Call was canceled. No team safety hours/ Briefs were sent in.

1. Incidents – This Week

24/12/2015         Hook                                     GSMR Rec Call sent by 1L25 after hitting a tree Country Side of the Station. The tree was blocking the Down Slow and Fast. 5B39 stopped short of the obstruction owing to the GSMR Rec Call.

25/12/2015         Waterloo                              Queenstown Road Bridge – Incident with 650V occurred. Person involved immediately taken to hospital.

25/12/2015         Clapham Yard                    A member of Eastleigh Signal Works was working on CY96 pts when his screwdriver slipped and caught the bridge of his nose causing a graze/cut.

25/12/2015         River Stour Bridge           A member of Osborne staff had some grit in their glasses which got into their eye.

28/12/2015         Havant                                  A member of the Havant S&T strained his lower back whilst trying to remove a ladder from the back the van within the maintenance depot.

2. SRS Iron Man 29 12 15

3. Safety Hour Bulletin – Tyre Blow Out on Motorway 24th Dec

4. Downloadable First Aid App

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87 Close Calls reported last week –  Fantastic Effort! Remember to encourage reporting of close calls as you come across things

1. Safety Hour Attendance last week – 70% – Again, Great Effort!
2. Incidents – This Week

 13/12/2015         Wool                                     Ganymede contractor whilst lifting sleepers with rail dogs lost balance and slipped, dropping timber nips and sleeper fell onto and crushed his finger.

20/12/2015         Salisbury                             Member of Salisbury P-Way received a nasty cut whilst loading timbers in the yard onto a Network Rail van. The timbers slipped causing the injury. First was aid administered and they were taken to hospital.

 15/12/2015         Upway (Close Call)         Member of public reported an open access gate at Bridle Bank way, DT3 5RR.

4. Non-compliant conductor rail short circuiting straps

5. New Occupational Health Provider – OH Assist – BACKGROUND

– Occupational Health support – Discussion pack

– Stress management – Discussion pack

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1. 62 Close Calls reported last week-  Remember to encourage reporting of close calls as you come across things
2. Safety Hour Attendance last week – 53%
3. Incidents – This Week

08/12/2015         Crewkerne         ES for Item 76 reported that an RRV in possession has knocked into the old signal box and had damaged the structure – six to eight bricks have been knocked out.

09/12/2015         Raynes Park       Member of CRE staff had an RTA when a car pulled out in front of  him and he went into their rear bumper. Both drivers sustained NO injuries. Slight damage to both vehicles.

09/12/2015         Liss                         Member of Eastleigh Signal Works slipped down an embankment London side of Liss Station last Tuesday.

4. Sentinel Card Checks and the Value of Doing Them
5. Incident Story Board – CRE RTA
6. Daily Vehicle Inspection Sheet
7. Encouraging Close Calls
8. Withdrawal of machines pending identification and rectification of the issue (Report 62.05 – 0788K)
9. Safety Flash Report – Slip on Steps

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92 Close Calls reported last week-  Remember to encourage reporting of close calls as you come across things

2. Safety Hour Attendance last week – 58%
3. Incident story boards
   incident story board welder at Durnsford Road
4. Safety Bulletins
   NRL 15/05 Saxilby Three Years On
5. Material this week
   Bogus short circuit straps and clamps
   respecting neighbours
6. Incidents – This Week

29/11/15              Clapham DU – A member of staff strained his back at Durnsford Road lifting a trolley from the line (story board included)

29/11/15              Woking DU – A member of Pway had a metal heel bar fell on to the top of his left foot at Woking Yard, resulting in a bruise.                      

29/11/15              Eastleigh DU – A member of S&T slipped on leaves and split his left knee cap on a troughing lid at Dorchester Junction.

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1. 61 Close Calls reported last week-  Remember to encourage reporting of close calls as you come across things
2. Safety Hour Attendance last week – 62%
3. Incident story boards
   Muscle Strain Using Rail Dogs Story Board
   Incident Story Board Hookswitch pole
4. Safety Bulletins
   Safety Advice NRA 15_09 Update 1 – Robel Orbital Hand Tamper Failure – Remedial Action
5. Material this week
   Transportation of Detonators
   Safe Working Frost and Ice

BEAWARE!

• There have been incidents involving mobile cranes working adjacent to Network Rails operational railway, On the 16th July 2015, there was an incident involving a tower crane that caused damage to a handrail on the railway. This incident could have been much more serious. Be aware of plant working adjacent to our assets, we must NOT allow outside pressure to allow unsafe working practices.
• On Sunday 8 November at Wool, Bindon No2 Xing, scrap rail had been placed on top of 2 track feeder cables, causing the 2 sections to be electrically linked.

The scrap rail may also have become Live. The rail was latterly removed under an EO (WX EO 635) and the bare cable insulation patched. The potential for harm would have been huge if someone had decided to attempt to move that rail without an isolation.

Highlights (again) the importance of disposing of scrap rail properly.   

6. Incidents – This Week

22/11/2015         Southampton    – Possession irregularity. Contract blocking staff operated a hook switch outside the possession limits without line blockage in place.

25/11/2015         Fleet station       – Track operative was unkeying track when hammer slipped off the key hitting ankle. Ankle bruised and sore.

26/11/2015         Byfleet                 – Assurance checker checking on strapping staff, should have been a 2 man team but only 1 is present. They also crossed an open line without line blockage, no safe system of work and using wrong access as per packs.

29/11/2015         Dorchester J       – A member of Salisbury S&T slipped on leaves and injured his knee on a troughing lid. Possible split kneecap.

29/11/2015         Woking                 – Member of Woking P-Way was unloading a flat bed. The side of the lorry dropped and a metal heel bar fell onto the top of his foot above the steel toe cap.

29/11/2015         Haslemere          – Staps left in place at 42m 20ch when the current isolation for WON 36 Item  85 was recharged.

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ROAD SAFETY WEEK!

1. 73 Close Calls
2. Safety Hour Attendance – 60%
3. Incidents this week – One resulted in a member of the team requiring time away from work (LTI)
4. Wheel Security
5. Road Fleet – Customer Service Feedback Process November 2015
6. Van Driver Daily Walk around Check
7. Look after each other
8. Driving Eyesight Poster
9. Driving In Adverse Conditions
10. Drug Drive Poster
11. NSC Road Fleet Link – https://www.nr-nsc.co.uk/roadfleet/

Incidents – This Week

15/11/2015         Peasmarsh                          AMEY examiner entered a T3 possession without contacting PICOP to examine a culvert. They had set up their own safe system of work and gone trackside treating the line as live and trains running to complete their inspection. Incident currently under investigation as they hadn’t signed in with the PICOP.

15/11/2015         Basingstoke                        Member of Basingstoke S&T fell over onto his right knee causing some bruising to his knee.

16/11/2015         Woking                                Trackman whilst attending a manual handing course had a seizure. Ambulance called.

17/11/2015         Woking                                Track workers (believed to be vegetation clearance contractors) sitting track side without wearing hard hats or glasses on the Up side on the BML1 at c.25m17 (Woking Station).

19/11/2015         Norbiton                              Balfour Beatty Control report oil spill at 11M 49Ch. A bank hose on 6J61 no:75411failed. Fitter capped the leak. 20 litres of bio-degradable oil spilta and cleared with 2 spill kits as was the railhead.

19/11/2015         Brookwood                        Technician pulled a calf muscle whilst moving scrap rail. Resulted in LTI

21/11/2015         Barnes                                 Member of Clapham P/Way carrying an iron man. Ballast shoulder gave way under foot and they landed on right hip, bruising right hip.