Toolbox 28-05-2024

TWU Report - Alex Morris 

OHS Committee Report - Thomas Lidgerwood

Management Report - Tim Bishop

Topics Discussed:

Alex Morris 

• OH&S election announced tomorrow

• Truck checks trying to make it a weekly thing, going well

• Representation in meetings, you're always entitled to it. Text Alex or Paul

• Contact deets on the board or on the wiki

• Get help to get on the wiki, good stuff

• No meeting this month

Thomas Lidgerwood

• Strictly apolitical announcement

• Shoulder dollies slipping

• Discussion on pros and cons of shoulder dolly styles

• Bigger better

• Feedback from crew

• Fatigue management quiz sent out, do it!

• New building, things still being tweaked and experimented with

Tim Bishop:

• OHS Committee, check it out

• D&I committee needs more members

• Point of wiki, it's collaborative

• White tubs

• Where to put them in the trucks, behind the seats?

• Pigeon hole system explanation

• Feedback about parking and pigeon hole system

• Explanation of first aid kits / misc stuff / toolbox prototype

• Label the windscreen wiper bottles

• Small multigrips

• Roller door issues explanation

• Break logging system explained

• Paul raised concerns about the new office arrangement, specifically:

  • Too much glass, feeling like their working in a fish bowl

  • One way door

  • Feeling in old depot of informality

  • Previously had opportunity to speak to road crew

  • Can we make it a two way door, curtains?

• Tim explains reasons

  • Natural light needed via balcony

  • The amount of glass has created some acoustic problems

  • Needs to be a balance between social and work time

  • Needs to be done without interrupting phone staff

  • Social in social area, work area for work

  • Hard to do phone work with noise

  • Intention of one way door is to prevent interruptions

• Paul responds

  • Road crew don't have same level of surveilance

  • Phone staff have not raised concerns about noise with him

  • Concerns raised about everybody being in a row, hard to speak to each other

  • Feels like reason they're in a line is for surveillance

  • Imposed on road staff but not on office staff

• General back and forth about office issues and suggestion for meeting devoted to issues between union/office/management