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DRIVE INNOVATION The industrial workplace is ever- changing, and as it changes the health and safety demands of the workplace change with it.


Industrial safety expert McCue utilises its armoury of protection products in facilities across the globe and has done so for decades. But when one high profile customer expressed a need to protect walkways from the potential danger of protruding ground level forklift truck forks, McCue’s R&D team were called into action.


Polyethylene pedestrian barriers are becoming an integral part of intelligent health and safety procedures in facilities. The products organise a facility and segregate


pedestrians from moving vehicles, in turn this creates an optimised, more efficient facility with a long-lasting, low maintenance product.


But what about those forklift forks protruding under the barriers and on to walkways?


McCue’s R&D team solved the problem by delivering the ultra- strong, multifunctional FlexCore Guard Rail. The handrails still guide pedestrians and organise a facility, but a reinforced ground level rail with hidden hardware offers an extra strong layer of protection – and the ability to deflect intrusive forks and keep workers safe.


Director of McCue UK, Emma Panter said: “Listening to the needs of our customers and working closely with them to deliver the safety solutions


In her hour-long talk, Ruby, who has a Master’s degree in Mindfulness- based Cognitive Therapy, said managers needed to be trained to spot mental health issues and help employees feel comfortable speaking openly about them.


She said: “It can be very difficult for a manager to recognise if a member of staff is mentally ill, unless he or she is trained to spot it.


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RUBY WAX TAKES MENTAL HEALTH


MESSAGE TO 3M Comedian and campaigner Ruby Wax is well known for her efforts to increase awareness of mental health issues within society at large.


Now the actor has taken her message to some of the UK’s top employers, at an event held by science-based technology company 3M.


At 3M’s UK head office, in Bracknell, Berkshire, she addressed an audience of more than 120 health and safety professionals, as part of the company’s Safety Network Live event.


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billion pounds are lost every year in businesses as a result of mental health issues, so it would probably be really beneficial for managers to really learn how to work with people who are dealing with mental health issues and make them feel safe, so they feel they can speak out about it without the fear of jeopardising their position in the company.


“In this day and age - good luck saying it – if you put it on your CV that you’ve got a mental illness, people worry about holding on to their job. Removing this stigma would be such an evolved thing to do for your company.”


Ruby also explained the need for businesses to treat mental health and stress as seriously as traditional safety topics that affect employees’ physical wellbeing.


they need, is absolutely key to McCue. Our customers often give us our best ideas and the FlexCore Guard Rail will go on to be used across multiple facilities.”


McCue’s range of safety products will be on display at Manufacturing Management (22nd


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She said: “If you keep the stress on stress on stress going, eventually it will burn down your immune system, and then you’re open to every disease going.”


As one method of addressing this, Ruby offered an interactive demonstration of mindfulness techniques, which she said were now being used by elite organisations such as the Marines.


She said: “It isn’t saying ‘hello’ to your dishes before you wash them. It isn’t chanting a mantra to make sure you don’t come back as a cockroach. All it is, is noticing when those thoughts are getting carried away, when they are starting to get critical.


“Mindfulness isn’t for everybody, but it is one way to cool your engines.”


3M, which has decades of experience in developing a wide range of personal protective equipment (PPE), launched Safety Network Live in 2015, with just a single event.


The aim was to bring the UK’s top health and safety professionals together to learn more about ways of working that could help shape their companies’ practices going forward. Since then, Safety Network Live has doubled in size each year.


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