Workplace Report (October 2004)

Health & safety news

Drivers get the hump

Reading's bus drivers are threatening industrial action next month, in protest at having to drive over speed humps every day.

The drivers, members of the T&G general union, claim the route is causing back, knee and neck injuries. Branch chair Danny Downs said: "It's like someone behind you kicking your chair more than 1,000 times a day."

Reading council promised to reduce the humps' size in March but has failed to do so.

Similar complaints about the traffic-calming measures have been raised by bus drivers in Sheffield and other cities.


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