Last Friday twenty Thomas Miller employee including those from the UK Club, spent a day volunteering at Hackney Play Association. Hackney Play Association work to provide inclusive spaces and services for children, children with disabilities, young people and their families. They tackle issues such as social isolation and exclusion, ensuring their sites are kept accessible from children from lower income households. Here, children and young people have the opportunity to gain social skills and build confidence through play and outdoor learning in a safe, inclusive environment. It plays an important role in the community but was in desperate need of some TLC.
After a quick walk and some brief introductions we formed ourselves into groups, to undertake a wide range of activities, from general maintenance, through developing animal murals to constructing a wooden play area (with professional help!). As you can imagine everyone got to know each other very well, exploited skills they themselves didn’t know they possessed whilst demonstrating great teamwork and a genuine work ethic – what else would you expect from Thomas Miller people. The transformation to the play area was obvious, surpassing the expectations of ourselves and Hackney Play Association.
We then all moved onto the local hostelry for a much needed drink or two and contemplated how we had 'been the difference.'
A very pleasing and enjoyable day for us and a fantastic result for the community of Hackney.
The UK P&I Club recently held a webinar on the maintenance and proper use of mooring ropes; the webinar received an overwhelming response with attendees from more than 50 countries worldwide.
It's our worst case scenario - someone on board collapses and is found to be unresponsive and not breathing - this advice outlines how to conduct Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and what equipment and medication is available.
This is one of a number of accidents notified to the Club relating to the explosive failure of glass fittings, pressure gauge glasses, manometers and light bulbs resulting in serious injuries to crew.
In this short article, the Club takes a look back one of the most notorious historical incident in maritime history, the sinking of Titanic; this casualty gives us the opportunity to examine the reported facts, to reflect and understand human error and avoid those mistakes from being repeated that others have made.
