Social Dialogue Committee Conference: Postal Occupational Safety Today Budapest, 23 – 24th March 2006 Accident Prevention for Safe Driving CTT Correios de Portugal

Social Dialogue Committee Conference: Postal Occupational Safety Today Budapest, 23 – 24th March 2006 ACCIDENT ABSENTEEISM RATE (%) Global Per Sector workable days absence days

Social Dialogue Committee Conference: Postal Occupational Safety Today Budapest, 23 – 24th March 2006 ACCIDENTS PER CATEGORY (%) Number of accidents

Social Dialogue Committee Conference: Postal Occupational Safety Today Budapest, 23 – 24th March 2006 Safe Driving Road driving activity plays a relevant part amongst tasks associated to mail transportation and delivery. Our main type of accidents is related to vehicle driving. Some actions: –serious accidents analysis –defensive road driving –safe driving of tractors. Goal: combine business efficiency with safety and accident prevention.

Social Dialogue Committee Conference: Postal Occupational Safety Today Budapest, 23 – 24th March 2006 Serious Work and Road Accidents Analysis Accident occurrence Accident analysis by selected team Safety advices Report on accident causes Action plan and follow up Systematic analysis of serious accidents to evaluate the different types of causes – primary, direct, indirect.

Social Dialogue Committee Conference: Postal Occupational Safety Today Budapest, 23 – 24th March 2006

Social Dialogue Committee Conference: Postal Occupational Safety Today Budapest, 23 – 24th March 2006 Defensive driving for delivery and transportation Defensive driving actions are distinct according to the types of vehicles: trucks, cars, motorcycles. Their objective is the workers’ training in driving techniques and public circulation safety. The programme consists of: – a on the road practical module - in which every trainee is accompanied by an instructor who analyses the driver’s driving techniques and coaches him consequently; –two class sessions on driving good practices, the road legal code and accidents within CTT and in society.

Social Dialogue Committee Conference: Postal Occupational Safety Today Budapest, 23 – 24th March 2006

Social Dialogue Committee Conference: Postal Occupational Safety Today Budapest, 23 – 24th March 2006 Safe driving of tractors in the Sorting Centre Guidelines for the use and circulation of the tractors and associated trailers were established, an operations manual was prepared and several workers were trained. Indications about the maximum length of wagons a UAT (Unit of Aggregated Transport) train should have. Delineation of recommended pathways to use. A device to control the speed limit was internally developed and installed in the tractors. Intermittent light has been placed in the external body of all tractors to make them identifiable and visible, in advance and from distance, when in movement.

Social Dialogue Committee Conference: Postal Occupational Safety Today Budapest, 23 – 24th March 2006