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RMT calls for action on anniversary of Carmont disaster
The report into the fatal derailment of a passenger train at Carmont, Aberdeenshire on August 12, 2020 by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) made 20 recommendations in March 2022 for the improvement of railway safety including the better management of construction activities by...
Region: National
Tagged with: Carmont disaster, safety
RMT launch Railway Work Life and Death project
The data provides a fascinating insight into the past health and safety experiences of RMT members, including risk posed by their jobs and any accidents they were involved in.
Around 25,000 records from the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS)...
Region: National
Tagged with: Railway Work, Life and Death Project. RMT, Health & Safety, Mick Lynch
RMT responds to Scottish Government research on women and girls’ safety on public transport
According to the report, increasing onboard staff on trains and other modes of public transport would "add significantly to women's sense of safety and may lead to an uptake in public transport at night."
The report also found that...
Region: National
Tagged with: Scotland, Women, Safety
Maritime suicides are unacceptably high, and employers must act
Suicide tragically remains a huge issue in the maritime industry.
According to a study from the International Maritime Health journal, an estimated 5.9% of deaths at sea are connected to suicide. Yet, when ‘suspicious’ deaths that were possibly suicides were...
Region: National
Tagged with: Maritime Mental Health, Maritime Safety Week
Maritime Safety Week 2022
RMT will shortly be continuing discussions with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to continue our discussions on lifeboat safety. RMT’s key high-level items are: • Maintenance and safety equipment installation and maintenance • Drills- frequency, conditions, location on which drill...
Region: National
Tagged with: Maritime Safety Week, Maritime, Safety, Seafarers, Maritime and Coastguard Agency
RMT to ballot for strike action at Orsted
Offshore union RMT is to commence balloting all members at Orsted Walney Operations for industrial action over the victimisation of a member simply for raising questions over serious health and safety infringements.
The union is appalled at the actions of...
Region: National
Tagged with: Orsted, Wind Farm, Walney, Victimisation, Health & Safety
Transport Scotland "playing fast and loose with railway safety."
An FOI request passed to RMT shows Transport Scotland requested that Network Rail reduce its baseline budget by £65 million in both 2022/23 and 2023/24.
This new evidence is in direct contradiction to official responses from the Scottish Government when asked previously...
Region: RMT Scotland
Tagged with: Transport Scotland, Network Rail, Railway Safety, Scotland
RMT demands Grant Shapps detains P&O ferry over serious safety breaches
Port authorities in the Netherlands listed failures around fire safety, deficient training for crew and below standard ship structural integrity, during an inspection between 7 and 8 April.
P&O sacked 800 workers in Britain without warning last month, sparking angry protests at ports...
Region: National
Tagged with: P&O, Safety
RMT on seizure of P&O vessel by MCA tonight
General Secretary Mick Lynch said;
"The seizing of the European Causeway by the MCA tonight shows that the gangster capitalist outfit P&O are not fit and proper to run a safe service after the jobs massacre.
"This mob should be...
Region: National
Tagged with: P&O, Larne, Safety
RMT warns of significant threat to railway safety
Britain’s largest rail union has warned of a significant threat to rail safety and services cause by plans to axe thousands of rail jobs. The warning came as tomorrow, 9th March, rail workers will gather at stations in London, Bristol,...
Region: National
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