On our construction sites we use a lot of different types of plant, from everyday delivery vehicles right through to 1000-tonne mobile cranes

SO PLEASE REMEMBER:

1 Never enter the agreed exclusion zone unless directed to by the person in charge.

2 Machines are always moving and the exclusion zones move with them – imagine the zone as a protective bubble around the machine.

3 Stay on the agreed walking routes.

4 As an operator of a machine, always engage the machine’s movement limiters (height, reach or slew).

5 As an operator of a machine, always ensure you have commu-nication with your banksman/machine controller to control your movement safely.

6 As a banksman/machine con-troller, you are in control of the safe movement of the machine and are continually assessing the worksite for changes.

l They all have blind spotsl They can travel in any directionl They have the ability to

operate without warning in a 360 degree circle

l They all have the potential to cause you harm

WHAT THE MACHINES HAVE IN COMMON ARE:

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EVERYONE GETS HOME SAFE EVERY DAY!

“Too many people have been seriously hurt or worse by coming into contact with machines”FOR MORE ON EXCLUSION ZONES AND PLANT GO TO PAGES 4 AND 5 INSIDE

SOMETIMES IT’S GOOD TO BE EXCLUDED!

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THE RISK?

Only access the railway if you have a safe system of work in place, then make sure you are at the correct location and that you are aware of the track layout. If there is a gate always make sure it is locked even if you are working close to it.

Finally, if you regularly use an access that doesn’t have a sign, please let the Route Access Team know. You can contact them by email at Allen.Griffiths@networkrail.co.uk.

causes of accidents in the rail and construc-tion industries.

Network Rail and their Contractors are implementing increasingly advanced tools to monitor working and travelling time.

Any suspicion, however minor, of ‘double shifting’ is being investigated fully.

Q. Double shifting is it worth risk?A. No it is not

You could end up injuring yourself, your mates or losing your livelihood.

Please don’t be tempted to work longer than the permitted hours it’s dangerous and

Any ideas or suggestions email Hi-Viz@networkrail.co.uk

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WHEN PEOPLE ARE working around plant on site it can be a dangerous place and communication is key. On the railway it is a requirement for the crane / machine controller to be in constant communication with his machine operator using a duplex intercom system rather than handsignals or back to back radios.

The preferred system is a DECT.Com system that uses cordless telephone technology operating in the 1880 – 1900 MHz band. The DECT.Com sys-tem has never been popular with users for various reasons including hygiene, fitting, signal drop-out, interference, battery life and setting up.

Due to the feedback Balfour Beatty decided to trial an alternative bluetooth based system called Athena on the Thameslink project. The system was developed for use in military environ-ments. Bluetooth operates in the range of 2400–2483.5 MHz and uses a radio technology called frequency-hopping spread spectrum. The advantage of frequency hopping is that bluetooth is less prone to interference in busy radio frequency environments unlike with DECT.Com. Other advantages are long-er battery life, shorter charging cycle and no trailing leads.

The Athena supplier, ‘dBD Communi-cations’ has secured Network Rail ap-proval for the standard system and are progressing type approval for a tandem lift solution.

The system was trialled during pos-sessions at the end of July and end of August. Those using the kit gave it the thumbs up. It is planned that this new equipment will be more commonly used on the project and will hopefully im-prove safety critical communications.

KNOW YOURLOCATIONSuspended! …by

a trapped thumb

Signage in place to help keep you safe

London Bridge team help a member of the public during heatwaveSEVERAL MEMBERS OF the Project were on hand when a member of the public collapsed in London Bridge bus station. Sean Phillips (Woodlands) was driving past in the van and noticed the gentleman lying on the floor; Sean went straight to the aid of the man and called for further assistance on the radio. “I couldn’t believe no one went to his assistance, with all the people walking past”.

Mark Weight and Jimmy Hunt were in the nearby works area and heard on the radio that assistance was required. they made sure an ambulance was on

WAS IT WORTH

A MINOR ACCIDENT occurred on the Thameslink Programme at Tanners Hill recently which led to the injured person and his colleague being suspended for “double shifting”.

During weekend works a number of the workforce were tasked to roll out some ca-ble and during the operation an individual trapped his thumb against the side of a ca-ble drum causing a bruise under his nail.

Whilst the injury was being attended to, an interested party asked the individual who he worked for, “I don’t know” came the re-ply, “my friend arranges our work, I just go where I’m told”.

This provoked further questions about who was paying him for his work, and who his sponsor was. Again the reply came back the same “I don’t know who I work for, my friend arranges all our work, I just go where he tells me”.

Suspicions rousedOn checking the signing on register it was established the individual was working for one of the subcontractors on site via an agen-cy, his PTS card was checked and proved to be valid however it did highlight he was sponsored by another agency.

Something didn’t seem quite right so a call was made to the second agency and it came to light that the person had been working elsewhere on the same weekend.

The OutcomeThe two workers had carried out a night shift in Cambridgeshire, and after signing off at the end of their shift travelled across Lon-don to sign in at Tanners Hill at 07.30.

Both contractors launched investigations which reached their final conclusion in July, when an enquiry found both individuals guilty of double shifting and suspended their PTS cards for 6 months.

The MessageDouble shifting leads to fatigue and fatigue has been highlighted as one of the major

increasingly people are being found out. You will end up having your PTS card suspend-ed, like this pair.

Stop press…Just as this issue of Hi Viz was going to press another railway double shifter was uncov-ered at London Bridge.

In this case the COSS in question had com-pleted a 12 hour day shift in Maidenhead, before travelling across London where he attempted to sign on at the Enid Street Site Access for the evening shift.

A Site Access Controller noticed discrep-ancies with his PTS card and set the chain of investigation in progress.

Needless to say, his PTS card has been withdrawn, and he will be seeking new em-ployment… But not in the Rail industry.

The Thumb that gave the game

away for the double shifters!

WORKING COLLABORATIVELY, SIEMENS, Balfour Beatty Rail, Costain and Network Rail recently helped 9 groups of students from 4 local schools complete a 10 week program called “Energy in Your School”. Delivered through the educational charity the Engineering Development Trust (EDT) using their established ‘Go4SET’ scheme, this particular program aims to encourage an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths (STEM) subjects amongst 12-14 year olds.

Each business provided between 2 and 3 staff to act as mentors to their nominated group of students helping them develop reports, displays and models to demonstrate their ideas for energy reduction in their school. Site visits were also arranged to London Bridge Station and Siemens building The Crystal where the students were able to observe real life energy management solutions.

The companies had to work together in a co-ordinated effort to offer support and maintain engagement levels amongst the students.

This was a fantasic effort to engage with schools local to the Thameslink Programme and helped promote interests in STEM subjects amongst pupils who could

l It was fun learning about the cool ma-chines the workers use.” Year five pupil

l I have enjoyed the assembly. The rails are really dangerous and children should keep away.” Year three pupil

l I really enjoyed learning about the dif-ferent jobs we can do at Network Rail.”

Year five pupill I think it’s good that they have built a gar-

den to say sorry for the noise. I also learnt that they refurbish and design new tracks and rail bridges.” Year three pupil

BEFORE THE SCHOOL summer holidays started Greg Thornett a Project Manager on the Thameslink Programme went to Snowsfield Primary School in London to give a presentation on the construction work that is being carried out in the local area.

Hi Viz asked Greg why he had gone along to the school and how it had gone. He said “As part of our engagement with the local community, we felt it was important to raise the awareness of school children of what Network Rail is all about, including the Thameslink Programme and specifi-cally the bridge strengthening works that we are undertaking on their doorstep. Hav-ing demonstrated the variety of plant we use and shown a time-lapse video of our last possession, it was important to empha-sise the safety risks associated with the rail-way and discourage them from straying onto the tracks. I was amazed by their en-thusiasm and the thoughtful questions asked. They seemed to enjoy it and hope-fully they will have a more positive per-spective of what Network Rail does.”

Following the presentation the school passed on some of the questions and comments raised by the pupils. The feed-back was:l Thank you for teaching me about Net-

work Rail, I have learnt that some of the work you do is at night so you don’t dis-turb people. Sometimes you can be a lit-tle bit noisy.” Year three pupil

Greg Thornett presenting to

the pupils

LOCAL LEARNING IN LONDON

WORKERS

GIVE FIRST AID

ENERGY IN SCHOOLS

potentially in the future be members of our workforce. It also offered a good opportunity for our own staff to develop themselves as mentors to these young people.

Do your children or a friend or relative’s children:l Attend a local school? l Take STEM subjects? l Have an interest in engineering or

the railway?l Are you interested in being a Mentor

next time we work with EDT? If so, contact the Network Rail

Thameslink Workplace Coordinator (danny.miller@networkrail.co.uk) or visit http://www.etrust.org.uk/ for more information

Teams work closely with local schools

BELIEVE IT OR not, there have been several events in the past that have happened as a result of people not knowing where exactly they are or in what direction trains run.

If you don’t know where you are, you and the team you are with are potential-ly at risk. To help people with locations, the Network Rail Thameslink Route Access Team has recently undertaken a programme of sign installation at key railway access points around the London Bridge area.

Each sign includes the following information:

l Mileagel Line speedl Direction of travell Contact informationl Engineer’s line reference (ELR)l OS Grid reference and postcode

As well as knowing where you are, if you needed to call emergency services the GRID reference and Post Code informa-tion is critical.

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Balfour Beatty Operatives trialling the Athena system give it the thumbs up!

Operatives help member of public

the way and the gentleman was comfort-able, providing a seat and water.

Another member of the team Richie Jones, one of the site first aiders arrived to see if any further assistance was required. All the team were on hand to reassure the gentleman and ensure he was in good hands until the ambulance arrived.

The team pictured right (left to right Sean Phillips, Jimmy Hunt and Mark Weight minus Richie Jones) were all com-mended for the assistance they provided, and were given breakfast vouchers. A very modest Richie declined the voucher, as “I was only doing my duty as a first aider”.

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“If you don’t know where you are, you and the team you are with are potentially at risk”

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temporarily, before it was quickly released by other staff rushing to his aid and managing to bar it off his foot. The rail weighed about a ton.

He was in a lot of pain, he sat down on the sleeper end to catch his breath, and the first aider was called over to see him. The First aider was reluctant to take the guys boot off although luckily the boot had saved his toes from being crushed. Even so the rail had bridged the steel toecap and rested its full weight onto the top of his foot. Members of gang helped him to the Site Access Cabin, and he was helped into a van and driven to Hospital.

The X ray revealed he had fractured his metatarsal the bone in the top of his foot, a common footballers injury but also his big and second toe along with severe bruising across the top of the others. A&E put a plaster cast on his foot to provide support at this stage and booked him into see the fracture

clinic the following week.He ended up having a

long period of time laid up due to his injury which caused him a lot of pain and discomfort.

On reflection, he knows he should have given that rail a wide berth and respected the exclusion zone, heavy items of plant and people don’t mix!

It just go’s to show, that sometimes you don’t even need to be involved in a task, to be involved in an accident and that’s why exclusion zones are so important.

Back in March the programme was involved with track laying at Tanners hill in South London as part of works to give the train companies more flexibility when we start to take lines out of use going into London Bridge station. It was a bitterly cold night, with temperatures well below zero and a contractor was involved in cutting in a new length of rail on the new Up Tanners Hill line. The site was well lit, with a balloon light nearby and the remainder of the site was lit with tower lights

A Trackman was collecting equipment that night; he was an experienced guy who had worked for his employer for over 8 years. He had been tasked with moving pads, clips and nylons into position, ready for keying up of the rails and was working in an area where a 60ft length of rail was being “cut in” and barred into the sleeper housings.

The individual was engrossed in the task and working away steadily, but got too close, and as the rail was tipped over to fit it into the housings the rail rolled onto his foot. This trapped his foot

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WRONG PLACEWRONG TIME

KEEPING PEOPLE AND plant separat-ed to avoid injury is a must. People on site know that getting close to plant is not the wisest thing to do as:

l Plant movements can be fast and are generally bigger than you!

l Often there are blind spots for the machine operators

l Just because you can see the plant doesn’t always mean they can see you

Unlike traditional construction site ex-clusion zones where activities can be kept inside heavily signed, physical bar-riers e.g. in areas of demolition; in the railway environment it is not always possible to create barriered off exclu-sion zones, as is the case in the picture to the right.

In the photograph the crane control-ler (in the foreground) is controlling the lift and using the bluetooth communi-cation system to maintain dialogue with the RRV driver and keep people safe through the controlled activity.

However whilst he was in full control of the lift he is not always going to be in position to be able to monitor the exclu-sion zone all round the machine.

Keeping people and plant separated

Balfour Beatty Rail workers

replacing track panels

Rail topples causing injury

Point of accident

“It’s not just the front of the

machine you need to consider”

DANGER ZONE

Important to RememberWhilst some activities will require peo-ple to enter exclusion zones around plant; the key is always the safe and ef-fective management of these situations, the first and most important rule being only those that need to be there are!

However if you do need to be in the ex-cluded area; before walking past or get-ting into a place where you could be in physical contact with a machine, you need to:

l Get the attention of the crane controller

l Ensure that he or she is able to stop the operation before you could pass.

l AND… beware… it’s not just the front of the machine you need to consider… often machines have overhanging tail swings and can rotate very fast!

Final Thought If you are someone planning a job… con-sider… can the risk of people and plant be eliminated? In this instance a hydrau-lic seven sleeper baler could have been used meaning less people being in a dan-ger zone.

The number one rule of risk assess-ment being: if the risk can be avoided, then it should be. Eliminating a risk is better than having to manage it. Remind as many people of that as you can…

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WHAT IS YOUR NAME AND WHAT IS YOUR LINE OF WORK?My name is Paul Ariesan, and I work for Sky-Blue. Sky Blue is a professional service that supports Caril-lion PLC as a business. I am employed as a ground work-er, a track worker and a banksman.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU WORKED ON THE THAMES-LINK PROGRAMME?I have worked with Sky Blue for 2 ½ years, working on sites from Snow hill and Blackfriars to Selhurst and Brighton. I am currently working at Cricklewood.

WHAT DOES YOUR TYPICAL DAY LOOK LIKE? The shift starts at 07:00hrs with the daily brief. Here we are told what work we will be doing for the shift and who is working around us. We also get an overview of what is generally going on around the site for the day. Then we have our COSS Brief and we commence work. Naturally, each day is different and I may be do-

ing track work one day and construction work the next. This keeps the job interest-ing.. We have a ½ hour break and then work until ten to five. Obviously, we all clean up work area before we go home.

HAVE YOU EVER HAD A SCARY SAFETY MOMENT WHILST AT WORK?Not on this site, thankful-ly. But when I worked for a different company, some rail was delivered to the site one day. No one checked if

WHAT DOES SAFETY MEAN TO YOU? Earn money and get home safe everyday!!! I have a new baby girl and I want to see her grow up

CAN YOU LEAVE US WITH A SAFETY MESSAGE? Everybody should look out for everybody and if it is wrong say something.

Everyone should work like a team and look after each other.

DAY IN THE LIFE: GROUND WORKER/TRACK WORKER/BANKSMANHi-Viz took time out to talk to Paul Ariesan, working for Carillion at Cricklewood as part of the Thameslink Programme

the load could be delivered onto the site safely. After finding out it couldn’t, the team used a different meth-od and decided to lift the rail over the fence. During the operation, the load slipped out of the chains so it was a real close call.

HOW DID IT AFFECT YOU? I am now more willing to voice my concerns and will question something if I think it is wrong. I will stop work rather than do it the wrong way.

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YOU’RE HIREDBOB’S TEAM HAD BEEN WORKING ON THE TRACK ALL DAY.

THE COVER WAS HEAVY. ALTHOUGH THE GROUND WAS FLAT, THERE WAS A STEEP SLOPE NEARBY.

BOB LOST HIS FOOTING ON THE STEEP SLOPE...

AN ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION WAS QUICKLY UNDER WAY.

BACK AT THE SITE THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR.

ONE CUT ARM AND FRACTURED ELBOW LATER.

Righto. I’ll just go and put the cover on the buried services

chamber.Nearly there!

Argh!

We really need to consider how we could

have made the site safer.

Too right. Safety has to be

paramount in all we do, right from design to

commissioning.

Hmm, We should visit the sites more. We’d

spot hazards like this if we did.

The risk should have been assessed.

We didn’t identify the site risk clearly enough in the site briefi ng

documentation

He fell down the slope onto the fence

here.

It was, but the assessment didn’t reach the Task Brief Level.

SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT

Paul outside Carillion’s depot at Cricklewood

AT LONDON BRIDGE, Costain’s has a comprehensive stores department, consisting of different areas. One area is for all the lifting equipment. This is commonly called the rigging loft. This is a room where all items associated with lifting are kept. It is very well stocked, simple to use but more importantly the way it is controlled. This is done by an in house barcode system.

UP, UP & AWAYLifting Equipment barcoded for safety

How does it work you ask?!Well, an operative will come to the stores requesting 2 No. 3 ton by 3mt web slings, and then he is requested to show his ID card. This will then be scanned by the PDA which will recognise him and display his image when this has been con-firmed. The items are then scanned and issued to him. They will then be his property until he returns them to the stores. Whist he has them the PDA will be placed on its cradle to synchronise with the desktop, which will download the informa-tion on that person, and the items he has taken. The items can then be tracked. When these have been returned to the stores the process is repeated with the PDA being set to returned. If these items are not returned to the rigging loft at the end of shift, they must give a valid reason as to why. The PDA can also record damaged goods on return, parts missing, etc. After being checked back in they are then ready for the next person to use. If any item is returned damaged it will be placed in the quarantine box await-ing examination. After being checked if it is found to be uneco-nomical to repair it will be de-stroyed, and a replacement purchased allowing continuity. The system will also flag up 1 month before the item is due for a re-test.

The London Bridge Station Redevelopment team Skills Academy

On the day there were representatives from: Bowercross Construction Limited l Keltbray l Costain l Network Rail

THE NATIONAL SKILLS Academy for Construction is a project based training concept that is tailored to helping clients and contractors to get the right skills where they need them, on site. The agenda provides an on-site virtual Academy for project and sub-contract staff to enable them to become fully competent and qualified in their role and/or up-skill their competence if already qualified.

As part of the Skills Academy targets Costain held a job fair at the Bermondsey Square Hotel on Saturday 3rd August 2013. They used this as a way of attracting local unemployed Southwark residents to employment or training opportunities on the London Bridge project. This was a Costain lead idea with Bowercross Construction Limited leading the way and providing the most support and funding for the venue.

In order to get local Southwark residents interested in the event, the job fair was promoted and sent to local employment providers, services and community based projects such as the Job Centre, Southwark Works, The Construction Youth Trust, London Probation Service and a number of others.

The start of the journey for this year’s intake of Costain’s construction apprentices at London Bridge Station Redevelopment

This year’s intake of Costain’s construction apprentices have now arrived on site. After a rigorous interview process three Joiners/Formwork, two Steelfixers and two Bricklayers were selected.

Their first week on site was purely focused on Health and Safety, behavioural training and preparing for the CSCS testing process.

All seven apprentices have been buddied up with their respective tradesmen and are now out on site working in various locations of the project.

WHEN ASHLEY EDWARDS, Jake Caddey and Jason Platford joined the Carillion apprenticeship scheme, they were all aiming for an NVQ Level 2 in rail-based construction, and hoping for a job. Now they are members of the Canal Tunnels Safety Action Group (SAG). Hi-Viz asked what safety means to them. Here’s what they said.Ashley: This was something I wanted to do from school and Carillion were actually rebuilding my school, so I knew of them and joined their scheme. Right from the beginning we have been involved in all the main tasks, including groundwork, concreting, drainage and paving, and protecting the work area. Safety is integral to all these tasks. Our induction included ALO working, and made the risks very clear. We spent a couple of days on how to set up barriers, safe starts and PPE, so right from the begin-ning we get the message. I think it’s part of quality – safety is an important part of doing a good job. Getting involved in SAG meetings allows us to have our views, we get

treated as equals. I also went along to the ‘Pan SAG’ meeting, where all the different safety groups get together, and that was really interesting. It’s clear that safety is top priority, and needs to be our top priority on site too.

Jake: This is the first site I’ve worked on. It’s good to be here with other apprentices too. We’re learning a lot, everyone makes time for us - we’re a regular part of the workforce now.

Sometimes we might be working with the engineers, and everyone explains what they are doing - that’s really good for us.

It’s clear that safety is top priority here. It is part of the NVQ qualification, too. We have to show evidence of safe working, knowing the site rules and having the right attitude.

Jason: I have worked on a Kier site previously, but prefer it here, as it’s a lot more organised and we get very good briefings - the morning brief and task briefs are good. This site is certainly more focused on safety. Everyone tries to help out and gets involved. Our supervisors have to sign our work diaries, they witness our experience and what we’ve been doing, and take pictures around the site as evidence of good practice. Working with Sword and other subcontractors is interesting too…

SAFETY& THE APPRENTICE

‘The Carillion Apprenticeship Scheme is helping us to provide a legacy of employment and skills for the rail industry which is an important aspect of both the Network Rail and Carillion TLP sustainability objectives. We are delighted to have Ashley, Jake and Jason as part of our team and the fact that they are getting so actively involved in our Safety Action Groups.’ – Simon Fowler Project Director, Carillion Rail Thameslink Programme.

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HAND ARM VIBRATION (HAV) monitoring has not always been the easiest or the most accurate disciplines. I’m sure many people fondly remember carrying around their little blue book with their breaker… filling it in studiously!

Costain has introduced the HAV me-ter system on the London Bridge Station Redevelopment project as a simple, ac-curate and effective way to monitor ex-posure to hand arm vibration on wide range of tools.

HERE’S A QUICK WALK THROUGH OF HOW IT WORKS:

1 Workers are assigned their own personal swipe card which a store man will use to swipe out a HAVmeter from the base

station, for that worker at the start of each shift.

2 The worker will attach the HAVmeter to pre programmed ‘tool tags’

3 The whole unit is then affixed to each tool that emits potentially harmful amounts of vibration whilst in use.

4 The worker uses the tool as normal and intermittently checks how many HAV exposure points they have

accrued by checking the display.

Hand Arm Vibration control made easy

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MANAGING HAVS AT LONDON BRIDGE

WHAT DO PEOPLE really think of Hi Viz? How is it perceived? Is it interesting? Does it actually add any value?

UKPNS Supervisor Jim Lynn took some time out of his busy schedule and got the team together at Ifield Sub Station (part of the Thameslink Programme) to have an old fash-ioned chin wag about the magazine. Here’s what the team had to say about Hi Viz:

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE FORMAT OF THE PAPER?It’s “very eye catching” and its tabloid lay-out meant that there was an element of fun to the whole magazine.

WHAT ABOUT THE ARTICLES ON PEOPLE – WHAT’S YOUR VIEWS ON THAT?Everyone seemed to agree that it was about time that the lad’s that are out there build-ing the job got their say. It’s a nice change to have people with whom we can relate to featured in the newspaper and not just lis-tening to what the management suits have to say! It helps us understand what else is happening across the programme, having the opportunity to view items of plant and various tasks that we don’t ever get involved with. As Jim explained “I even learned of a new piece of kit available the VB9 LED IBIRD, a useful looking piece of kit!”

WHAT ABOUT THE ARTICLES ABOUT LESSONS LEARNT – ARE THEY OF ANY USE?The high wind dangers article was re-ferred to and it was agreed that this was informative and made Jim and the team more aware of dangers associated with high winds. For example the team had just attached sheets of co-

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5 If the worker accumulates 300 points then the HAVmeter will begin to flash amber instead of green. This acts as a

warning that they are approaching the daily exposure limit of 350 points* and should inform their supervisor so that they might move them to other duties that won’t expose them to any further hand arm vibration for that shift.

6 If a worker exceeds 350 points then the HAVmeter will begin flashing red. If this happens then they must inform

their supervisor. The store man will place an alert on the workers personal file and direct them to the onsite occupational health specialist for an evaluation. There is a system in place to ensure that the worker cannot return to work until they have seen and been declared fit by the OHS.

7 At the end of the shift the worker returns his tools and HAVmeter to the stores, where the HAVmeter is replaced onto

the base station to recharge before the next shift. The base station also downloads to an SD card, a file containing data about how many points the worker accumulated that shift, which tools they were using, what times the used them and for how long.

YOUR FEEDBACK

The UKPNS team

rex p.v.c. sheeting to some palisade fencing and heras panels to negate a touch poten-tial at the H.V. compound. After reading the article, the team double checked that all the fixings were properly tightened and that the sheets had extra cable ties attached to prevent them from flapping or even blow-ing off completely if there was a high wind.

WHAT ARTICLE WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IN HI VIZ IN THE NEAR FUTURE?Almost all were unanimous in asking for an article on the actual safety of wearing safe-ty glasses when it is raining, as they keep steaming up and impair operative’s vision whilst trying to walk or work on site in the rain… UKPNS have just secured themselves another article for Issue 4 of Hi Viz. Good suggestion guys! Unfortunately the request for page 3 girls cannot be accommodated in Hi-Viz… sorry!

GOOD FEEDBACK ALL ROUNDAll in all, the Ifield troops see many bene-fits to having Hi Viz and it certainly offers everyone across the programme the oppor-tunity to learn and its focus on Safety means that everyone is interested… after all, safety is everyone’s responsibility.

Thank you Jim and the UKPNS team for your input to this issue of Hi Viz.

CAN YOU SPOT the words hidden in the grid? Words can ap-pear vertically or hori-zontally, not diagonal-ly. The words can be spelled backwards and forwards – good luck!

The HAVmeter system has been work-ing extremely well on the London Bridge site; and has been highly commended by Network Rail’s Chief Executive David Higgins and Infrastructure Projects Di-rector of Safety and Sustainabili-ty Roan Willmore on recent tours of the site.

8 This file is transferred to a PC by the store man and uploaded into a software program that stores the data and can generate

bespoke reports from it. The data is backed up and stored indefinitely.

Roan Willmore with Costain store man Tommy.

Tommy is showing Roan how the system works on

the PC and is controlled from the store room,

in terms of issue of kit, monitoring and record

keeping

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