SHEQWs Newsletter August

What’s been happening across
eight 2
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Thames Water Raft Race
This year marked Thames Water’s
20th Annual Raft Race for
WaterAid. Over the next four years,
eight2O and Thames Water will be
working together with WaterAid
to transform lives in two towns in
Malawi - the world’s poorest country.
Currently in Malawi, 10 million
people have no safe place to go to
the toilet and 1.7 million people have
no access to safe, clean water.
In light of this, in July, 7 eight2O
rafts, including 2 from the SHE Team
entered the annual one mile raft race.
34 carnival themed rafts battled it
out on the River Thames. Each team
designed, built and decorated their
raft and wore fancy dress based
around the theme of carnival.
SHE Ream populate RKC
notice board
In July the SHE team populated the
notice board in F2 RKC.
This is a Thames Water initiative,
pushed by Richard Blake to ensure key
messages are being received by all
staff.
After many hours of discussions,
meetings and deliberation we decided
that the SHE message would be “ SHE
in the Planning stage”, through a game
of
SHE Snakes and Ladders and the
Pillars of SHE Genga.
If you didn’t get to see it and would
like to, get in touch.
Occupational Health -
HAVS workshops
The Occupational Health Team have
been busy doing workshops to raise
awareness of the causes, symptoms
and prevention methods of HAVS,
across a number of sites.
It has been acknowledged that a
large percentage of the workforce
do not understand exposure points
and permitted times for tool usage.
Additionally, it has been identified
that exposure records are not being
kept correctly and many were
occurring after the activity had
happened. .
If any sites would like this workshop
carried out, get in contact with the
occupational health team or speak to
It was a spectacular day & no eight2O
team sunk!!
If you would like to donate,
please do so, click here.
If you want a copy of the
comic, please email us.
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