Royal Mail to provide personal alarms

The Royal Mail has agreed with communication workers’ union the CWU that it will provide personal attack alarms to postal delivery workers.

The move was greeted by Angela Whitter, who represents women members from the postal constituency of the CWU on its national executive.

She commented: “I welcome this, which is needed not just by our women members, but by all our outdoor collection and delivery members too, who sometimes suffer emergency, dangerous or threatening situations while on duty.”

CWU health, safety and environment national officer Dave Joyce, who secured the agreement, explained: “There have been around 450 reported attacks of various nature on our postal members in the last three years and around 60 van thefts and robberies in the last two years.”

Angela Whitter said that, while welcoming the agreement to provide workers with personal alarms, “it’s also equally important that the company fully supports postwomen and postmen who suffer incidents of abuse when they’re out on delivery.”

https://www.cwu.org/news/cwu-women-welcome-agreement-on-issue-of-new-royal-mail-personal-attack-alarms