{"id":49585,"date":"2023-05-23T20:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49585"},"modified":"2023-05-23T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T18:06:02","slug":"orr-issue-improvement-notice-on-blackpool-transport-over-rigby-road-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49585","title":{"rendered":"ORR issue Improvement Notice on Blackpool Transport over Rigby Road Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its been confirmed that Blackpool Transport\u2019s Paint Shop and Fitting Shop facilities at Rigby Road Depot have been under an Improvement Notice since last December, which has impacted the workshop capacity for the heritage trams over the past few months.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The notice was issued in December 2022 with an original deadline for rectification by 30<sup>th<\/sup> January 2023 although this has since been extended until 31<sup>st<\/sup> May 2023 after a request from Blackpool Transport.<\/p>\n<p>The opinion of the Office of Rail and Road Inspector was that Blackpool Transport were contravening the Health and Safety Act as they had \u201cnot carried out a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks arising from work activities which employees are exposed to whilst they are at work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>To comply with the notice Blackpool Transport were required to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify all substances that are in use at Rigby Road Paint Shop and Fitting Shop that are substances hazardous to heath as defined in the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002<\/li>\n<li>Carry out a suitable and sufficient assessment of risks to health where identified substances hazardous to health are in use. The information provided by the manufacturer in the safety data sheet should form part of this assessment<\/li>\n<li>In determining the prevention or adequate control of substances hazardous to health, where prevention of exposure cannot be achieved as required under of regulation 7(1) of Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 substitution under 7(2) shall be considered; Where substitution can not be implemented protection measurements as required under regulation 7(3) shall be adopted<\/li>\n<li>For each identified substance hazardous to health, implement the control measures as identified in the risk assessment process in 1-3 above in order to prevent or so far as is reasonably practicable control exposure<\/li>\n<li>Where the risk assessment indicates that monitoring exposure is requisite for ensuring the maintenance of adequate control of the exposure of employees to substances hazardous to health, implement a procedure to ensure that any work involving substances hazardous to health is adequately controlled and monitored and reviewed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a statement provided to <em>British Trams Online<\/em>, Blackpool Transport Managing Director, Jane Cole, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve been working closely with the ORR and with our Heritage Engineering team to comply with the notice issued. We have provided additional training to staff, created new safety documentation, and purchased new equipment to allow our Heritage operation to comply with 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century standards. The workshop has a new lease of life, and the improvement notice has allowed us to make great strides in maintaining the health and safety of our staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been confirmed that Blackpool Transport\u2019s Paint Shop and Fitting Shop facilities at Rigby Road Depot have been under an Improvement Notice since last December, which has impacted the workshop capacity for the heritage trams over the past few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49665,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49585\/revisions\/49665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}