MESSAGES

A WORD FROM JASON REDMAN

Hello Team,

Great to be touching base with you all again.  It has been an eventful month within the tower crane industry.  A few things I will discuss include: 

- NO Cradling Loads
- New Internal Climbing System
- Long Longs - Leading the Industry in Safety
- Reporting / Action on Safety
- Farewell


No Cradling Loads
I would like you to review the below photos demonstrating how to sling a load.  I have visited various sites and witnessed some companies still cradling loads.  This is a 'no go' in the Reds Global team.  It is a dangerous practice and we do not allow this for a very good reason.  

Always position a bite on the load and ensure that your chains or slings have the capacity to complete the task safely.  Dunnage or rubber should be positioned under the chains or slings to prevent damage to suspended load.  REMEMBER, we lift it, we own it.  

Long Longs - Leading the Industry in Safety
Reds Global have invested in long shirts and long pants for your safety, not your discomfort.  I want to assure you that your feedback in regards to the heat has been taken into consideration.  At present the lightest, toughest materials currently in the market are being reviewed and will be selected for the summer clothing issue.  It has been decided that the shirt colour will change to orange.  

Farewell
Some of you may be aware Simon Hughes from the rigging crew will be saying farewell to Reds Global this week.  Simon has made a massive impact to our team.  I hope we see him again soon.  Thank you so much for your contribution Simon.  I will brush up on my Chess before you return next.


Once again, great big thanks to all our team at Reds Global.  

A WORD FROM DAVID BROWN

Welcome to the end of winter newsletter and to the end of the cold mornings.  We trust you and your families are all well and looking forward to the warmer days.

I have a fortunate position within Reds Global to oversee works and to assist on site with all of the installations and dismantles of our tower cranes.

I want to share with you how impressed I was by the exceptional state of a tower crane that we dismantled on Saturday, 26th August and with the crew on the tower crane that assisted us on site.

The guys demonstrated to our rigging team, some wonderful values. These are: comraderie, respect, teamwork and safety. Awesome work guys.

We would like to have more time to tell you all more often the amazing jobs that you guys do on site and I will use this opportunity to do so, thank you.

On the other end of the spectrum, we had a very arduous job last week that entailed us removing the hook blocks and the complete hoist rope from one of our tower cranes following an event that is still being investigated.

Having spent the day working on the jib of a tower crane assessing the damage and finding solutions to repair the tower crane and return it to service, I found it unfathomable to think that an incident like two blocking a tower crane could happen to an operator working for Reds Global.

This incident could have been so much worse than the $100k repair that we are faced with. It could have easily resulted to someone getting badly injured or even worse.  This is a timely reminder that we all must be diligent on site and we must use our training.

Once we close the investigations out on this incident, we will ensure that we learn from it. Team members should constantly educate each other to prevent these types of incidents from happening in future.

We can work safe, we can work smart and we cannot walk past something that we can see is wrong. If you walk past it, you accept it.

Please keep up the great work that you are doing on site and if we can assist you with any PPE, information or additional training please let us know.

We are a team, a great team. We are Reds Global. 

Remember to give that extra 10%, its the difference between ordinary and extraordinary.

Thank you 

TEAM MEMBERS OF THE MONTH

James Halpin
Brent Lawton
Anthony Kamutoa

This month's prize goes to the team at FDC, North Sydney.  Great work team.  Keep it up. 

Enjoy your Gold Class movie vouchers guys, and thank you again for your dedication to our team!

Dave Brown

RECENT WORKS

Critical works were successfully undertaken on projects by Reds Global this month.  These included:

INSTALLS
John Holland Group, Kellyville - CTT561-A24
Richard Crookes Constructions, North Sydney -  STL230-18
Meriton Constructions, Lidcombe - 2 x base installs

DISMANTLES
Parkview Constructions, Macquarie Park - STL420-24
FDC Constructions, North Sydney - STL230-18
Meriton Constructions, Mascot - CTT561A-24

PHOTO COMP

Bill Tsolakis has won the prize for July with 29 likes for his picture from the Meriton site at Mascot.

Congratulations Billy, the team at Reds Global are happy to present you with a Kathmandu gift voucher.

Got a photo to share? Enter our monthly photography competition for the chance win a $100 gift voucher. Entries will be featured on the Reds Global Facebook Page. Send your picture along with a brief description, your name, the date and location of the photo to Rach either via email: rachel@redsglobal.com or text: 0430 168 875.
                                                                                                                                           Get involved in voting for next month's winner by hitting 'like' on your favourites on the Reds Global Facebook Page.
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REDS GLOBAL UPDATES

I hope everyone is well and keeping warm as we end winter for another year.  There are a lot of updates to report in this month's edition.  

WEBSITE CHANGE / UPDATE
We now have the ability to post updates on the Reds Global website.  There is section titled 'News' that you can view and all the updates will be made available to you.  


INTERNAL CLIMBER
As Jason mentioned in his message for this month we have purchased an internal climbing system.  This will benefit our clients in completing their projects on time and cost effectively.  

EMPLOYEE COUNSELLING SERVICE
Just a reminder of the employee assistance service available to all team members.  There is an update on our website with information regarding the service and some information below.  

CHARITY FIGHT NIGHT
Some of you may be aware that our Safety Coordinator, James Moriarty will be taking place in a charity fight night.  Please contact James via 0448 515 185 or james@redsglobal.com if you would like to purchase some tickets.  This is a great opportunity to support a good cause and help cheer one of our team members on.  

Team Rubicon Australia (TRA) unites the skills and experiences of Australian Defence Force veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy emergency response teams around the globe.

MAINTENANCE OF FLEETING SHEAVE
It is important that the fleeting sheave is  lubricated weekly.  It is requested that team members include a picture of this each week with the weekly paperwork that is sent to the office.  The below notice was emailed out to all team leaders.  

If anyone has any news they would like to share in the Newsletter please feel free to contact me either via text: 0430 168 875 or email: rachel@redsglobal.com.  This could be anything from the birth of a child or news that someone is expecting to a holiday / trip you have planned.  Even if you know of some news regarding another team member that they would be happy to share please let me know.

Jobs Available at Reds Global

There are positions available to join our team.  Please view the advertisements below.  If you know anyone who would be interested please advise the office or pass the message on to that person.  We also need an apprentice sparky.  There is no advert placed for this role as yet.  

These advertisements are available on Seek.com.  Please apply through Seek.com if you are interested.