RM chief faces 'H&S challenge over driverless vans from CWU

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Royal Mail chief faces 'health and safety' challenge over driverless vans from CWU

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Royal Mail boss Moya Greene faces a "health and safety" challenge from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) after she mooted the idea of introducing a driverless van service in the future. The union, which represents more than 110,000 Royal Mail workers, told IBTimes UK the chief executive should concentrate on tackling "real resourcing issues" within the FTSE 100 firm.

"While the CWU has always supported the sensible use of modern technology, the issue of driverless trucks clearly raises a mass of practical and health and safety issues for our members, for consumers and the wider public," a CWU spokeswoman said.

"The CWU would much rather the CEO concentrated on tackling the real resourcing issues the business currently faces and focus on how to improve the service our members currently provide. At a time when our members are facing unprecedented pressure in relation to workload, we also find Greene's assertion that staff are so happy they walk with a spring in their step, baffling and insensitive."

The warning comes after Greene told the Confederation of British Industry's (CBI) annual conference in London that she would "love to see how sensory technology is working, so that we can probably see a day when we're going to have driverless trucks". Greene, who took charge of the postal giant in 2010, also said she was open to using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), known as drones, for deliveries in remote areas.

Similar programmes have been trialled in Singapore and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given the green light to deliveries of medical supplies via drone to remote locations. The regulator has also given online retailer Amazon approval to begin drone delivery trials.

[pants123]

Its common sense, the CEO, will have to explain all the health and safety court cases from all the crashes and injuries the vehicles will cause....

I thought these people are supposed to be intelligent...

Clearly not....

[pants123]

At a time when our members are facing unprecedented pressure in relation to workload, we also find Greene's assertion that staff are so happy they walk with a spring in their step, baffling and insensitive."

The woman is either on another planet, or she ignores the injuries, stress and anxiety and lies about the dire situation in delivery...

[pants123]

Still not had these new style more efficient PDA's promised from last years...

Still using the rubbish PDA s that dont work....

I cannot see this c r a p being introduced any time soon...

[redneck]

I really fear for our performance this Xmas period, with her head clearly in the clouds we are getting the resources of a company in financial trouble. Been told we are having no extra staffing at all in our office, this after a revision based on summer levels of traffic and therefore we are working well over our time or leaving in more than ever with six weeks still to go of build up.

[Tman]

If the CWU isn't worrying about pole erectors in Cuba or trade union officials in San Salvador (or somesuch place) they're worrying about technology that's decades away for general purpose applications.
Try and keep at least one foot in the reality of the UK in 2015 eh Dave..

[halfull]

cwu worried about health & saftey? Give me a break, they need to come into delivery & see what the workload day in day out is doing to the health of their members!
They are to busy agreeing to everything possible the royal mail propose & trying to help labour pick up votes!
Got no faith in them what so ever, they pay more attention to whats going on in politics than whats going on in delivery with their poor members who are left to knock xtra doors for every packet & have no extra time built into the duty! Disgrace.

[greengiant]

Surely more pressing issues today regarding health and safety for the CWU to be concerned about, rather than being worried about "driverless trucks" which will probably be 15-20 years away.....