LT Health & safety

A recent exposé in the Guardian has reaffirmed the serious problems with air quality on the Tube.

Join is at 3pm to discuss fighting for adaptations to our workplaces to ensure worker and passenger safety during heatwaves. Plus, how can we activate our unions to fight for radical climate policy?

Tubeworker has heard reports of the air conditioning facilities in some station control rooms and mess rooms failing in the recent heat waves.

Having been flagged up with management, the dire state of the walkbridge from Bollo House to the Acton Town station platforms has been swiftly demonstrated. A routine asset check by the Stations CSS rightly closed the bridge after serious problems were flagged with the safety of the stairs.

Scientists at Imperial College have published a study into mortality rates amongst TfL workers. It shows higher mortality rates amongst bus workers and LU workers, compared to office-based staff.

As we enter another dangerous heatwave, for which the Met Office has issued a red warning, we can expect some typical comms from management.

We've produced a new edition of our bulletin, to coincide with forthcoming drivers' strikes.

Love them or loathe them, Arsenal have done very well this season and their supporters will be out for a huge party at their victory parade on Sunday afternoon, possibly celebrating a Premier League-Champions League double.

Stations during the May heatwave have been unbearably hot. The hottest May temperatures ever recorded translated into gatelines of workers unable to cope with even regular shift patterns and duties, not to mention platform duties and more urgent passenger incidents. An hour of SATS on a platform in nearly 40-degree heat isn’t just dangerous for the member of staff, it makes them less able to assist and prevent passenger injury, or worse.

If you work in a train crew, fleet, or engineering depot that has a staff canteen, you’ll have noticed an odd disparity.