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STATE REPORTING TABLE Online Reporting April 2014

State Hazard Near miss Incidents MVI Injury Total

NSW 4 5 9

QLD 3 4 1 8

VIC 1 1

Total 0 7 0 10 1 18

NEAR MISS REPORTING 7/4/14 QLD Contractors had fueled up the Mercedes Sprinter diesel truck with unleaded fuel and driven it back to the holding depot. 9/4/14 QLD Employee was entering a customer’s premises through the front gate. He was walking in backwards with trolley full of totes through the gate the customer’s dog started barking. The dog then jumped at him and bit driver on the buttocks/pants. 11/4/14 NSW Driver was driving down banks street just after 6pm, It was dark and heavy rain when he heard a bang, He got out and checked the truck no damage there was a low hanging branch from a tree. 14/4/14 NSW A council truck was sitting in a bus zone when he suddenly pulled out and clipped our drivers mirror classed as Near Miss nothing broken 16/4/14 NSW Driver was reversing out of a driveway when a 3rd party came speeding around the corner, Driver stopped to avoid collision. 3rd party would have been doing 90klm in a 50 zone. 16/4/14 NSW Driver nearly got his legs trapped in between two online trucks as one reversed so to swap loads due to a previous incident. 29/4/14 Driver did a U-turn at an intersection but took it too wide and hit the curb with his left steer tyre. The tyre went flat and the rim was damaged.

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You burn more calories eating celery than it contains.

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Driver drove through a give way sign hitting a car. Driver was reading his GPS

at the time of the incident.

Driver not following procedure, takes a trolley into a customers house scratching

the customers floor.

Trolley damages customers painting hanging on the wall.

Injury 28/4/14 QLD Driver sent a text to say that he had a slip on a

wet driveway on drop number 5. Office called the driver straight away and asked if he was ok.

MVI 3 Incidents were reported in April where drivers failed to stop in time hitting the rear of the cars traveling in the same direction. 4/4/14 NSW Truck traveling in the opposite direction clipped drivers mirror. Third party did not stop. 12/4/14 QLD Mud flap was torn off and driver ran over a dead kangaroo. 16/4/14 NSW Driver drove through a give way sign hitting a car. Driver was reading his GPS at the time of the incident. 23/4/14 NSW Rock fell out of the back of a tipper truck traveling in the opposite direction cracking windscreen. 26/4/14 QLD Driver completed a U-turn on a customer’s property hitting a Tree Stump. Damaging to Freezer side step and rear passenger rim and tyre. 8/4/14 VIC Tipper truck turning into in front of the driver without warning struck the front left hand side of the sub-contractors vehicle. 11/4/14 QLD The traffic was backed up due to peak hour congestion. Driver was stationary in the right hand lane. The other vehicle behind tried to move to the left lane and nudged against the rear left panel of the LFX ute pushing the panel in.

Health hazard reported on the Fountain gate loading dock.

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DEFINITIONS A Hazard is a source or a situation with a potential for harm in terms of injury or illness, damage to property, damage to the environment or a combination of these. A near miss is an unplanned event that did not result in injury, illness or damage but had the potential to do so. An incident is any unplanned event resulting in, or having a potential for injury, ill health, damage or other loss.

HAZARD- Kids from the local primary school hanging around and playing in the loading dock at Rosebud

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Check out some great warm up exercises to help get you ready to workout. With warm-up stretches, you help to prepare the muscles for action, increase blood flow to hopefully prevent injuries like torn muscles! Additional benefits of warming up include physiological and psychological preparation. When you look at warm up exercises, you need to progress to the following sequence of stretches only after you have warmed up the muscles properly. Remember that your warm-up is the key to unlocking tight muscles, which is the cause of injury.

Benefits of a Proper Warm Up:

Increased Muscle Temperature - The temperature increases within muscles that are used during a warm-up routine. A warmed muscle both contracts more forcefully and relaxes more quickly. In this way both speed and strength can be enhanced. Also, the probability of overstretching a muscle and causing injury is far less.

Warm up Stretches

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Easy- Lower Back cat stretch

1. Start with a flat back, and then drop your head downward, pushing your shoulder

blades upward and outward as you elevate your upper back.

Easy :-Upward Stretch

1. Extend both hands straight above your head

2. Inhale, slowly pushing your hands upward, then backward, keeping your back straight.

3. Exhale and relaxing from the stretch before you repeat.

Easy - Quadriceps Standing

1. Stand holding onto a secure object, or have one hand raised out to the side for

balance.

2. Raise one heel up toward your buttocks, and grasp hold of your foot, with one hand.

3. Inhale, slowly pulling your heel to your buttock while gradually pushing your pelvis

forward.

4. Aim to keep both knees together, having a slight bend in the supporting leg.

Easy - Elbows Back

1. Stand or sit up right, keeping your back straight, head looking forward.

2. Place both hands on your lower back, fingers pointing downward, elbows out to your

side.

3. Exhale slowly while gently pulling the elbows back, aiming to get them to touch.

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Pre start Safety Checks

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Welcome Grant Simon to the Linfox

Woolworths Online team. Safety, Training & Compliance Manager Grant has been working for Linfox for close to 10 years

within the Retail Bu, Managing sub-contractor Compliance &

Training.

Grant lives on the south coast with his wife and two great

kids aged 6 & 9.

Grant is looking forward to working with a great team within

the Woolworths online Business

Safety starts before you start your machine. A pre-shift inspection of the

vehicle is critical.

All employees operating the vehicle conduct safety and maintenance checks on the vehicle.

The equipment is in a safe and acceptable working order before commencing or finishing work.

The equipment is monitored during work.

There is a record of inspection and a document path for initiating issues and recording any mechanical

or safety concerns.

Drivers are to ensure complete the pre start inspection before commencing their shift and document on the

DPA Pre trip screen. If you’re not using a PDA ask the Linfox team for a pre-start checklist.

Tyre pressure Lights are operational

Tyre tread Refrigerator operating OK

Lights are operational Horn is operational

Dangers of Careless Driving

Distracted drivers such as reading while driving, increases a drivers' chances of being involved in motor vehicle crashes by three times. Reading maps and directions is also distracting for drivers, and the act of doing so is often accompanied by the process of looking for an address, the stress of being lost, and/or the confusion of driving in an unfamiliar area. Again, the physical act of reading combined with mental and emotional distress creates a dangerous driving distraction. Drivers who need to consult a map or directions should pull over in a safe place; this will also give them time to orient themselves to their surroundings before continuing the trip.