Over the last 18 months Supply Chain and the Rail team have been rolling out the RFTM (Rail Freight Terminal Management) system at a number of sites. This process is an assessment of our safety culture, processes and documentation specifically relating to our Rail Operations. As part of that process, a site visit is required by Matt Green (Victa Rail) who has been assisting us with the roll out. This is to check procedures, security and signage and offer up any areas we can look to improve.

On Wednesday and Thursday of this week Jane Walsh (CEMEX Supply Chain) and Nik Watson (CEMEX Aggregates Rail) visited Salford and Stourton with Matt Green to meet the teams, watch the trains discharge and walk the site to see if anything could be improved.

A few suggestions came from conversations at the discharge point but generally everything was to a very high standard. Thanks to Phil Repton and Dave Tyghe (Salford) and John Beard (Stourton) for making themselves available to show us round their sites, look after us and demonstrate the many good things they are doing.

Photo: the team at Stourton around 7am with the wagon discharging.