A training program to promote hand safety for our employees has delivered 32 bikes to Gulgong Public School Special Education Unit, Rotary and vulnerable children’s charity, Barnardos.
A noticeable increase in hand or lower arm injuries across Peabody’s operations sparked the training need. Wilpinjong Mine had no injuries, but employees did the training at the quarterly training days in November to keep hand safety top of mind.
In the two-hour sessions, groups of employees used only one hand to either assemble a bike or to write a bike assembly instruction manual. The bikes used in the training were hand delivered to the groups.
In a heartwarming highlight, the donation prompted one non-verbal student to say his first ever words when he sat on a bike – “vroom, vroom”.
Mudgee Men’s Shed received a donation of $600 for assisting with catering for that quarter’s training days.
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