Royal Mail Road Safety Week: 23 - 27 July

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 20 Jul 2018, 17:56

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“Don’t forget your vehicle pre-use checks and report any faults as soon as possible,” are the key messages to all Royal Mail drivers, as the July 2018 Road Safety campaign launches on Monday.

The awareness-raising initiative, which is jointly supported by the CWU and the company, will highlight the importance of daily vehicle checks and the fault-reporting process, emphasising the fact that defective vehicles must not be taken out on the road.

Managers will be running driver-tailored activities within the WTLL sessions, including information videos and vehicle inspection training. They must ensure all drivers are aware of the PMT1 vehicle-fault reporting process, allowing them to “report promptly any defects,” that may arise.

Drivers have an amount of time allotted in order to ensure that these checks are completed, and this is supported by a system of fault reporting involving the completion of a PMT1 defect report form and entering details in the vehicle mileage and condition log book.

CWU area safety reps (ASRs) will be fully involved in and consulted on next week’s awareness-raising activities and will help to raise the profile of road safety and “keeping our driver members safe,” is the main aim of the week.

Plasma screens and posters will also be going up in workplaces around the country, as usual, flagging up these key road safety messages.

“Beware of sunshine glare,” is the focus of one of the posters – which is a particular problem in the early mornings and evenings when many of our Royal Mail drivers are operating throughout the country.

With around 40,000 vehicles in its nationwide fleet, last year Royal Mail, Parcelforce and RMSS vehicles were involved in 8,623 road traffic collisions, so the aim is to run these safety campaigns to assist in reducing incidents on the road.

“Even one crash or collision is one too many,” says CWU national health, safety and environment officer Dave Joyce, “and we’re always looking to do all we can to reduce the number of vehicle accidents as low as we can.

“The key aims are accident prevention and legal compliance for our members whilst behind the wheel,” he stressed, “which is why Road Safety Week is so important and next week there’ll be a strong emphasis on pre-use safety checks and fault-reporting.

“So please don’t forget these key points not just for the week but all year round.”

· For further information, please see LTB 407/18

worktotime · Post by **worktotime** » 20 Jul 2018, 22:03

im glad to see they have got there priorities right ,

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BELIAL · Post by **BELIAL** » 20 Jul 2018, 22:23

Box ticking bollocks that rarely happens in the real cost cutting world of RM. Covered their corporate backsides with fine protocols that are never enabled or enforced.

Newbie001 · Post by **Newbie001** » 21 Jul 2018, 10:04

Report faults lol. Only for it to be ignored not only by manager but by garage. And sometimes van can come back in worse shape. Have they actually seen the state of some of our vans.
I've refused to drive couple of vans, only for them to be shifted onto another postie.

Jonesy 1971 · Post by **Jonesy 1971** » 21 Jul 2018, 11:46

Ah ha my friends! Have you not heard about the cost saving that has to be implemented? At the moment we have 13 year old trucks in the fleet with 1.5 Million Kms to use. Oh yeah and remember to uphold the company image. Honestly you couldn’t make it up. Lol

DICKIEG · Post by **DICKIEG** » 22 Jul 2018, 16:46

What is the time allowance for carrying out the daily checks, and is there anything in writing anywhere. Thanks in advance

Post by **POSTMAN** » 22 Jul 2018, 17:15

If it's dangerous you have the right to not take it out, it's 'your' licence AND 'your' and possibly other peoples life at stake!

Post by **Navalron** » 23 Jul 2018, 11:06

We used to get 15 mins at the start and 15 mins at the end of our duties. That's probably down to 5 mins now. It seems that RM copy first bus. When I left RM and started driving buses we got 15 mins to check the bus at the duty start time. Then it was 5 mins. Then we got paid for spread over shifts and then they stopped them. Just the same as RM. But a fully qualified bus driver in glasgo W with years of service is still only on £9.50/9.75 per hour. A new starter at royal mail is £9.99. A full timer, both 39 hours on first group and RM, well the RM worked is about £100 per week better off. Also there's no night allowance on the buses. The only good thing is there's no tatters as they all got paid off as they were not needed and didn't add quality to the company. Maybe another copy that RM could follow but this would be a good thing..

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