Reporting incidents during industrial action and RMT guide to ORR Contingent Workers

Our Ref: HSR/4/5
Head Office Circular: NP/172/22
16th August 2022
To: The Secretary
ALL BRANCHES
REGIONAL COUNCILS

Dear Colleague,

REPORTING INCIDENTS DURING RMT INDUSTRIAL ACTION ON 18th, , 19th, 20th AUGUST

Also

RMT GUIDE: ORR PRINCIPLES FOR INSPECTORS ON CONTINGENT STAFF

Reporting incidents to RMT
Please notify me at action@rmt.org.uk if you become aware of any dangerous incidents caused by employers use of contingency staff in the run up to the strike action, during the strike action - 18th, 19th, 20th August - or subsequently.

When you write please provide as much relevant information as possible, including:

details on what happened (train numbers, time, route, photographs if you have them)
where it happened
who it involved
when it took place.

The RMT will use this information to contact ORR and for press and campaigning work.

Thanks very much to those of you that reported incidents that took place during previous strike action. This information was passed onto ORR and I have met with them to discuss. (If you don’t want the information to be used for these purposes then please state this in your email, as we can still use if for internal union purposes, such as forming a national picture of employers strike breaking activities).

The action@rmt.org.uk email address will be monitored throughout the period of strike action.

RMT guide to ORR contingent workers
Please find here: https://bit.ly/3ArscEg RMT advice for safety reps on ORR guidance doc for their inspectors on principles for contingent staff. I will be sending this guide direct to safety reps also.

Yours sincerely

Michael Lynch
General Secretary