Work Safely Campaign

[Geezer]

Our Ref : SF/160.01/09/hn

Date: 19th March 2009

Branch Secretaries
ADRs
Divisional Reps
DRG
SPDO Group
Walk Design Group
Regional Secretaries
ASRs
Area Distribution Reps
Area Processing Reps




Dear Colleagues,

Please find attached the following documents:-


• Letter to Members
• Letter to Branch Secretaries
• Work Safely Poster

The above will be despatched from CWU HQ hopefully today to launch the Work Safely Campaign. Can you please ensure that you give this Campaign your urgent attention and the widest possible circulation.

Yours sincerely

Bob Gibson
Assistant Secretary

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To All CWU Delivery Members


Dear Colleague,

WORK SAFELY - PROTECT YOURSELF – PROTECT YOUR JOB

The CWU are asking you to support our campaign to ‘Work Safely’.

Unfortunately many of you still believe that things will just carry on as they have always done in delivery and that you will be able to ignore Health & Safety rules, use your cars and basically get in - get out - and get finished. If that is what you still think, then you are in for a big shock because Royal Mail has made it clear that they expect you to work for all the hours that you get paid.

Royal Mail continues to ignore the tremendous effort put in on a daily basis by their employees who deliver the mail. They consider you under worked, that you all make time every day and that there is plenty of scope and spare capacity to remove hours from Delivery Offices, and for you to be able to absorb other people’s work when they are absent through sickness or annual leave.

Why do they think this? Because every day they see our members start before their time, not take their full meal relief (in some cases they don’t take any), use their private cars and carry all their ‘probably’ overweight pouches in their private cars. They see it and they choose to ignore it because it suits their plans for your future and it provides the platform for their savings programme, but most important of all they think you will continue to do this regardless of what they put in front of you.

However, Royal Mail are now stating that Health & Safety is at the top of their list of priorities and we want you to help make this happen by working safely, to protect yourself and protect your job.

It is time Royal Mail demonstrated their support for Delivery OPG’s and begin to appreciate just how much the delivery network takes advantage of the good will and self sacrifice of those who deliver the mail. It’s time for delivery members to stand shoulder to shoulder with their colleagues up and down the Country and start Working Safely to protect yourself and your job.

The CWU is launching the Work Safely Campaign nationally from Monday, 6th April. Campaign material has been sent to all Branches for distribution to all Delivery Offices. We want you to join your colleagues around the Country and make it a day to remember, a day when delivery members finally wake up and stop cutting corners and start working safely.

If Royal Mail is sincere in their new approach to Health & Safety they should show respect for their delivery employees and support this campaign.

Please support each other and your Trade Union.


WORK SAFELY

DON’T CUT CORNERS – PROTECT YOURSELF – PROTECT YOU JOB

Yours sincerely,


Bob Gibson Dave Joyce
CWU Assistant Secretary CWU National Health, Safety & Environment Officer


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March 2009

To All Postal Branch Secretaries

Dear Colleagues,

CWU WORK SAFELY CAMPAIGN

Please find enclosed sufficient copies of ‘Work Safely’ posters for all of your Delivery Units. You may of course decide to focus more on your main Delivery Units and send photocopies to your small Units such as SPDOs. This does not mean that Working Safely is not as important to our members in those units but the malpractice of not working safely tends to be more prevalent in the main Delivery Units.

Royal Mail have stated that they are placing Health and Safety at the top of their list of priorities and it is only right that the CWU should assist them in this regard by asking all of our members to Work Safely. Equally Royal Mail managers in all Units, sectors and areas should be approached to support the CWU Campaign and place this at the forefront of their activities.

You will also have received by email the pdf of this poster and you may use this to support the Campaign in whatever way you believe will gain maximum support from our members, which could be in the form of postcards and/or leaflets. Also attached to the email is an updated version of the letter sent to all members a couple of years ago and it would be appreciated if this could be circulated with the posters to your Delivery Units as soon as possible to coincide with the date below. The message to our members is:-

‘Don’t Cut Corners – Work Safely – Protect Yourself – Protect Your Job’.

We are looking for this campaign to be launched in earnest across the whole of the delivery network from Monday, 6th April 2009. This letter has been copied to all ADRs, ASRs, CWU Divisional Reps and Regional Secs so that they can all assist in coordinating activities across their areas of responsibility.

If you require any further information regarding this matter then please contact one of your Divisional Reps in the first instance or secondly the Outdoor Department via email on hnutley@cwu.org on 0208 971 7276.

Thank you in anticipation of your support.

Yours sincerely

Bob Gibson Dave Joyce
CWU Assistant Secretary CWU Health, Safety & Environment Officer

c.c. Postal Executive
Area Delivery Reps
Area Health & Safety Reps
CWU Divisional Reps & Regional Secs.

[POSTMAN]

Waste of time................................next.

[resperin]

indeed yet so fortunate. but still i'd like to see the article distributed at my office tomorrow morning

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Good Plan - wrong day - Mondays are usually lighter than Wed, Thu or Fri - might have been better to have selected one of those instead.

[Funked!]

As a H&S rep i will say the young lady on the poster needs to put her hi-viz on.