SSW JSC(10)1st

Draft Minutes 10/01 – 10/08

Stagecoach South Western Trains Limited

Draft Minutes of a meeting of Joint Safety Committee
held on Wednesday 10 March 2010 at Friars Bridge Court

present: Andy Pitt Managing Director (chairman)

Jan Chaudhry Operations Director
Ian Johnston Customer Service Director
Andrew Welsby Human Resources Director
Andrew Edwards Legislation and Standards Manager
Keith Usher Head of Operational Standards
Barbara Davenport Head of Employee Wellbeing
Martin Dye Company Council Representative (ASLE&F)
Gary Channing Drivers Health and Safety Representative (ASLE&F)
Alan Martin Health and Safety Representative, Island Line
Pete Skelly Regional Organiser (RMT)
Rickey Goodman Company Council Representative (RMT)
Bill Read Drivers Health and Safety Representative (RMT)
Charlie Barber RPI Health and Safety Representative (RMT)
Iain Anderson Divisional Secretary (TSSA)
John Walsh Health and Safety Representative (TSSA)
Steve Morgan Area Commander British Transport Police (item 10/01)
Andy Haddon HQ Safety (secretary)

Apologies for absence were received from:

Christian Roth Engineering Director
Brian Cook Head of Safety and Environment
Mick Pollek Regional Industrial Organiser, Unite the Union
Graham Morris District Organiser (ASLE&F)

Item
JSC 10/01 The Chairman welcomed Committee members and introduced Steve Morgan,
Area Commander for the British Transport Police who gave a presentation on
progress against the London South policing plan. The Committee
thanked Steve Morgan for the presentation and noted the positive trend in
crime comparison figures. The Operations Director suggested that the topic on
misuse of level crossings should be considered for a future presentation at the
meeting.

JSC 10/02 The Committee noted the minutes of the last meeting held on 16
December 2009 and approved them with no amendments.

JSC 10/03 The Committee reviewed the items on the actions tracking log. Any actions
carried forward have been recorded on the log, which is appended to these
minutes.

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The Legislation and Standards Manager briefed the Committee on the output from the
workshop with health & safety representatives held on 2 March. A finding of the
workshop is that there is confusion over constituencies in the Customer Service function.
The Human Resources Director agreed to look into this matter.
ACTION (2010-01): Human Resources Director

JSC 10/04 The Legislation and Standards Manager gave a presentation to Committee
members on South West Trains’ and Island Line’s safety performance for
Periods 9, 10 and 11 2009/10.

04.01 Performance Indicators

The Legislation and Standards Manager reported on the current
position against the KPI targets.

04.02 Exceptional Events

The Committee noted the two exceptional events involving the
Gillingham Tunnel landslip and passenger train derailment and
passenger train collision at Exeter St David’s. Both incidents had been
managed very well and investigation reports are currently being
finalised.

04.03 SPADs
The Legislation and Standards Manager advised the Committee on
the continuing good performance albeit with a small upturn during the
recent severe winter weather.

04.04 Station overruns

The Committee noted that that the number of these incidents has
increased compared with last year. It was also noted that our autumn
leaf fall performance had been poor compared to Southern and South
Eastern. The Operations Director stated that work needed to be done
with Network Rail (Wessex) to ensure their strategy for vegetation
management and track treatment would be sufficiently robust for
2010. Liaison would also be undertaken with Southern and South
Eastern to see how they manage low adhesion issues.

04.05 Physical Assaults

The Committee noted that there had been a rise in physical assaults.
The Committee were advised that one incident had involved three
employees being assaulted by the same assailant.

04.06 Drugs and alcohol screening

The Committee noted that there were two positive screenings for
drugs or alcohol.

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JSC 10/05 The Legislation and Standards Manager presented Paper A to the Committee
on the revised Joint Safety Committee Terms of Reference. The
Committee were asked to note the proposal for allowing only one local health
and safety representative to attend each meeting. The trade union
representatives felt this was restrictive. The Chairman proposed that a
compromise of no more than two local health & safety representatives be
invited to attend at any one time, which would be reviewed for 2011 meetings.
The Committee agreed to this proposal and local representatives would attend
by rotation.

JSC 10/06 The Committee noted that there were no CIRAS issues to report. The Drivers
Health & Safety Representative (RMT) stated that they still had not seen the
CIRAS Journal at Waterloo (see JSC meeting minute 09/49). The Operations
Director stated he would take this issue up informally with the Driver Depot
Manager at Waterloo.

JSC 10/07 The Legislation and Standards Manager presented an update on the Safety
Culture Survey to the Committee. 2500 surveys had been originally
distributed throughout the company and to date, 1771 had been completed
which represented a 70% return.
The Committee noted the current findings of the Survey. The Legislation and
Standards Manager informed the Committee that the final results of the Survey
would be used to benchmark our performance against other Train Operators.

JSC 10/08 The date of the next meeting of Joint Safety Committee is Wednesday
9 June 2010 and will be held in the Beaulieu Room, Friars Bridge Court
starting at 10:00 (please note the start time of this meeting).

Please advise the Legislation and Standards Manager of any items for inclusion
on the agenda for this meeting by 5pm on Tuesday 25 May, including any
supporting papers.

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