Author Archives: Kathryn Davies

Safety Hour discussion packs

The weekly Safety Hour is about giving you and your teams the opportunity to: have in-depth safety conversations about the local safety and security issues that matter to you track progress against local targets identify local improvement actions. It’s about taking ownership of local priorities and continually working together to solve problems, so we can […]

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Assessing manual handling risks

One way to assess manual handling activities is to look at four specific areas – Task, Individual, Load and Environment (easily remembered by the acronym TILE).  Note that Load (i.e. weight) is only one of the four factors which determine the risks; the other three issues can be equally, or more, important, depending on circumstances. […]

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Network Rail is reactivating its Safety Vision. Every day, thousands of our workers leave their homes to operate and maintain the railway – there is nothing more important than every one of them returning home safe, every day. Network Rail have enlisted a gang of mini safety experts, all from Network Rail families, and they […]

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Health Management Action Plan (HMAP)

HMAP-formThe health management action plan (HMAP) forms a record of discussions between line manager and employee, together with control measures implemented by Network Rail as a safeguard regarding an employee’s health and wellbeing. The health management action plan form has been developed to assist Network Rail line managers in managing health in the workplace, and can be found in the […]

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