Safety First by the Council in the street cleaners Staffordshire Moorlands District

Team members involved in training

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Fly tipping is antisocial, beating neighborhoods and expensive to remove - but the impact on employees, to remove the plaque is a cost that is often overlooked.

Tries Moorlands of Staffordshire District Council to address this problem and ensure that employees equipped with the skills they need to safely operate in the formation of street cleaning equipment in manual driving safety to reduce injuries on site I work.

Councillor Arthur Forrester, a member of the Council of Environment Cabinet, said: "The possible consequences for the health of the staff of the Commission, which is tipped for the purification of waste not fly so well documented, but no less of a consideration in measuring the Cost of fly tipping.

"That is why this training, we are committed to our employees is so important.'ve Injury manual manipulation often the result of lengthy and costly staff absences and a lasting effect on people. It is a hidden cost of landfill human wild and irresponsible, the litter are probably not aware of, but may have left serious consequences for the clarification of the chaos behind. "

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It has been reported that the training manual handling whenever possible to avoid and, if unavoidable, recommendations and guidelines for risk assessment, musculoskeletal problems and solutions provided materials handling.

Personnel involved in the formation took a practical exercise to implement their new knowledge into practice by setting the safe switching fly.

During the last 12 months there have been 416 cases of illegal deposits on the heath. Compensation costs related to £ 30,000 per year and not necessarily to stop it other costs associated with measures to prevent fly tipping and specific patrols and gate areas connected outside in addition to the invoice.

Councillor Gill Burton, Cabinet Member for Community, said: "People who fly the tip selfish behavior with little attention to the effects of their actions on communities and taxpayers who have to pay the bill to the Council its antisocial acts.

"Your reckless behavior costs money to all personal expenses and affects the residents of these communities used as landfill This is a completely preventable disease -. There are signs on the heath everyone can use and plead the people themselves and their neighborhood a to do a favor. "

Residents must make their unwanted waste your nearest recycling household waste and Bemersley in Biddulph Road Centre, Tower Crane drive off road in New Haden Cheadle Road, Leek or Fowlchurch ,. Who caught stealing failover can with a fixed penalty notice or £ 75 depending on the circumstances, spent a higher fine of up to 50,000 pounds.

- Be able to report anyone who fly tipping as online to do on the Council's website www.staffsmoorlands.gov.uk - or call 0345 605 3014th

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