Health & safety


Hero Jack helps street works safety message


Morrison Utility Services has produced a new DVD to warn schoolchildren about the dangers of construction and street works sites. And with the summer holidays approaching, it hopes the advice in ‘Jack’s Lucky Escape’ will be heeded.


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WITH THE school holidays fast approaching many chil- dren will be dreaming about the long (hopefully sunny) days of summer and the ad- ventures and excitement that the holidays entail. Unfortu- nately though, the summer holidays with long, light eve- nings do present some risks for


children particularly if


their ‘adventures’ involve construction sites or street- works sites. With impressive machinery and brightly col- oured signage and barriers, these sites can be something of a novelty to be explored for children.


With all this in mind, Mor- rison Utility Services has pro- duced a safety DVD aimed at primary school children. Tak- ing the form of a four-minute animated film, entitled Jack’s Lucky Escape, it offers teach- ers a talking point to discuss safe places to play and those to avoid.


The idea has been devel-


oped from Morrison Utility Services’ Morris & Son car- toon family, a regular feature of its safety briefings for op- erational staff and employees via its pictorial toolbox talks and company newsletter. Safety, health, environment and quality director Paul Ker- ridge explains: “The idea for the DVD for schools came about as a result of our in- creasing


focus on engaging


with the communities where we are working. Our teams are really on the front line in any water, gas, electricity or


In order to do this, the DVD uses an example of a willing but unlucky hero, Jack, who enters a streetworks site that has been secured for the night to rescue a runaway dog. Jack narrowly avoids fall- ing into the open excavation with the help of a Morrison Utility Services employee who arrives just in the nick of time. Although all is well that ends well, the short film high- lights the dangers of the un- known with Jack mistaking a pile of earth for the edge


telecoms upgrade or mainte- nance programmes and talk- ing to schools is a really ef- fective way of communicating about the work that we are doing.”


Kerridge continues: “We also know that we do have some problems in some areas from time to time with chil- dren playing around our sites. Given these circumstances we took the decision to pro- actively warn children of the dangers in a constructive way so that they are able to use their own judgement and, hopefully, avoid streetworks sites.”


“We took the decision to


proactively warn children of the dangers in a


constructive way”


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