Safety helps keep ambulance in the air

12/12/2007

SAFETY conscious water workers are helping to keep a life-saving charity airborne.

A cheque for £7,355 has been handed over to the Great North Air Ambulance from Northumbrian Water's Care for Safety Challenge Fund.

The donation is the latest award from the charity initiative which has raised more than £175,000 since 2004.

The challenge uses raising money for chosen charities as an incentive for employees across the region to think more about health and safety at work by spotting and reporting risks resulting in reduced accidents and improving the standard of accident and incident reports.

Each time a genuine potential health and safety issue is reported or an accident or incident is reported and paperwork is completed to a good standard a donation is made to the reporting department's chosen charity.

The Great North Air Ambulance cheque was presented by Northumbrian Water leisure rangers Paul Perryman and Will Lovat to paramedic John Ker and pilot Mike Tideswell at the ambulance base at Otterburn.

A further cheque for £105.82 from anglers who fish at Fontburn reservoirwas also presented.

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