Nick Baddeley, Louise Mears and Fran Garvey-Fereday discuss the development, challenges, and implementation of a ‘Wellbeing Ambassador’ network within Network Rail. Based on their own experiences, they deliver a best-practice guide for all.
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Join Andy Picken as he demonstrates easy exercises to incorporate before or during your shift. Experience the benefits of simple Personal Protective Exercises (PPE) designed to boost your energy and ease your workday. This warm-up routine will help you stay active, reduce fatigue, and improve overall wellbeing, making your shift work more manageable and less physically taxing. Enhance your daily performance with these effective and accessible exercises.
Our industry-leading health dashboards
Over 20 rail companies are signed up to the award-winning rail industry health data dashboard project. The findings are already providing a powerful tool to generate evidenced based decisions to help businesses to improve overall wellbeing and health for rail staff. This session covers how companies have overcome the challenges of collecting health data, what to do if you are unsure or don’t know where to start collecting data and how it supports the story telling; answering the “why” and “so what” when taking action to drive change.
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Technological innovation in the automation of vehicles is progressing faster than standards or regulatory bodies can keep up with. The overall market share for automated vehicles is expected to increase to approximately 40% of vehicle travel by 2040. However, automated driving is fundamentally different to manual driving. The driver must be prepared to take over control of the vehicle whenever necessary. This shifts the driver’s role from being actively engaged in the driving task to that of a passive supervisor of the system.