JSC Minutes June 2010

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SSW JSC(10)2nd Minutes 10/09 – 10/14

Stagecoach South Western Trains Limited

DRAFT Minutes of a meeting of Joint Safety Committeeheld on Wednesday 09 June 2010 at Friars Bridge Court

present: Andy Pitt Managing Director (chairman) Jan Chaudhry Operations DirectorIan Johnston Customer Service DirectorAndrew Welsby Human Resources DirectorChristian Roth Engineering DirectorAndrew Edwards Legislation and Standards ManagerKeith Usher Head of Operational StandardsBarbara Davenport Head of Employee WellbeingMartin Dye Company Council Representative (ASLE&F)Graham Morris District Organiser (ASLE&F)Pete Skelly Regional Organiser (RMT)Rickey Goodman Company Council Representative (RMT)Iain Anderson Divisional Secretary (TSSA)

John Walsh Health and Safety Representative (TSSA)Andy Haddon HQ Safety (secretary)

Apologies for absence were received from:Bill Read Drivers Health and Safety Representative (RMT)Brian Cook Head of Safety and Environment

Item JSC 10/09 The Chairman welcomed Committee members. The Committee noted the

minutes of the last meeting held on 10 March 2010 and approved themwith no amendments.

JSC 10/10 The Committee reviewed the items on theactions tracking log. Any actionscarried forward have been recorded on the log, which is appended to theseminutes.

JSC 10/11 The Legislation and Standards Manager gave a presentation to Committeemembers on South West Trains’ and Island Line’s safety performance forPeriods 12 and 13 2009/10, and 01 2010/11.

11.01 Performance Indicators

The Legislation and Standards Manager reported on the currentposition against the KPI targets. Overall this remains quite positive.

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11.02 Exceptional Events

There had been only one significant event during the three periodswhen a train had hit a car on Waterloo AHB level crossing (betweenWokingham and Bracknell) on 6 March. The car driver haddeliberately placed their vehicle in the path of the train and was killedby the impact. Passengers were detrained and removed from the siteby buses. The driver was badly shaken by the incident and wasinitially treated on the scene by attending paramedics.

11.03 SPADs

The Legislation and Standards Manager advised the Committee onthe best performance for a considerable time, with only 15 SPADs upto the end of period 13.

The Head of Operational Standards gave a brief overview on thecircumstances surrounding the SPAD on GPL signal BE5204 inAndover Yard on 21 April.

11.04 Station overruns

The Committee noted that whilst the number of station overruns hadnot worsened, they were still below the current MAA targets. TheLegislation & Standards Manager informed the Committee that theleaf fall peak (between periods 07 and 10 2009) had been higherthan the national average.

11.04 Door Opening Irregularities

The Committee noted the positive trend in performance as a result of continuing actions by the Guards function to address the key issues.

11.05 Physical Assaults/Threats and Abuse

The Committee noted the variable figures in relation to both physicalassaults and threats & abuse. Of particular concern were the violentassaults on a guard at Ash Vale on 11 April (20 days lost from duty),a gateline assistant at Waterloo on 5 April (1 day lost from duty) and

an unprovoked threat with a broken bottle made by a member of thepublic on two revenue protection staff at Bournemouth during period01/2010.

Committee members requested that feedback be provided at the nextmeeting on how these incidents were being pursued. The CustomerService Director stated he would follow up with the Head of Security& Crime Prevention.POST MEETING NOTEThe Head of Security & Crime Prevention will deliver a presentation at thenext meeting scheduled for 22 September 2010.

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11.06 Drugs and alcohol screening

The Committee noted that there had been one positive ‘for cause’

screening for drugs or alcohol during Period 13.

11.07 Environment

The Legislation & Standards Manager updated the committee on therecycling initiatives being pursued with waste recycling contractors,specifically in relation to waste generated at stations.

The Legislation & Standards Manager informed the committee that ourenergy consumption figures were performing to target. Normalisationof current figures had indicated a 13% improvement.

JSC 10/12 The Committee noted that there were noCIRAS issues to report. No furtherissues relating to the delivery and distribution of the journal at Waterloo wereraised.

JSC 10/13 The Legislation and Standards Manager presented a further update on the Safety Culture Survey to the Committee.

The results had more or less mirrored the industry sector mean following thebenchmarking exercise. The highest score was attained in relation to Training,

with the lowest scores in Management Commitment, followed by EmployeeInvolvement and Organisational Learning.The Legislation and Standards Manager informed the Committee that theheadline results will be published on Switch On. Action plans will beimplemented for the areas in which we had performed poorly, such asmanagement commitment. These will be combined with the action plansdeveloped for the ‘Tell Us’ survey results.

JSC 10/14 Thedate of the next meeting of Joint Safety Committee is Wednesday

22 September 2010 and will be held in the Beaulieu Room, Friars BridgeCourt starting at 10:00 (please note the start time of this meeting).

Please advise the Legislation and Standards Manager of any items for inclusionon the agenda for this meeting by 5pm on Tuesday 7 September, includingany supporting papers.


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