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cabby john
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interesting letter in the dundee tele tonight,second letter down

http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/outpu ... tters.shtm



As a matter of interest and to be honest - safety! take a person of 14 stone on a flat surface and you can push them quite easily, now push them up a gradient i.e ramps, what will that weight equate to?

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cabby john wrote:
dundee wav wrote:
interesting letter in the dundee tele tonight,second letter down

http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/outpu ... tters.shtm



As a matter of interest and to be honest - safety! take a person of 14 stone on a flat surface and you can push them quite easily, now push them up a gradient i.e ramps, what will that weight equate to?


If it was a council employee they would have to do a health safety check and the 14 stone would be reduced to 10.
Get in touch with the council health and safety officer and ask him to conduct tests
On the Aberdeen site they are refusing to load WC as they re not insured to do so
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cabby john wrote:
dundee wav wrote:
interesting letter in the dundee tele tonight,second letter down

http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/outpu ... tters.shtm



As a matter of interest and to be honest - safety! take a person of 14 stone on a flat surface and you can push them quite easily, now push them up a gradient i.e ramps, what will that weight equate to?

Too much IMO.

That brings me back to the report done with the help of Mr Skull and Mr Taylor, which shows (from memory) that if a wheelchair is loaded from the road via a ramp to the cab, then 25% of the time it's not safe for fellas, and 75% of the time it's not safe for the girls.

http://www.taxi-driver.co.uk/wheelchair.pdf

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dundee wav wrote:
interesting letter in the dundee tele tonight,second letter down

http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/outpu ... tters.shtm


Interesting the way that the council clearly couldn't answer the questions and just provided a vague answer.
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Dundee council could easily have risk assesments done, as could ours. They won't because they already know what the answers will be.

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what would all councils do if all drivers refused to take a wheelchair until a risk assessment was done
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great western ambulance wont transport wheelchair patients unless there is two members of staff but are quite happy to send for a w/c cab when it suits them
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what would all councils do if all drivers refused to take a wheelchair until a risk assessment was done

They would do nothing, other than give empty cowardly threats.

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A Dundee City Council spokesman said, “All taxi drivers have to pass a medical and it is a condition of their licence that they provide such help as they are able to give to elderly, infirm or disabled passengers. The council has not set weight limits as these will, to a certain extent, be determined by the type of vehicle, ramps etc.


So if the cooncil cannae answer the question, what chance has the driver got of knowing the right weight limit?

Just keep pushing until you slip a disc or the wheelchair coups ower?

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if you ask HSE they will give you the weight,which is six & a half stones!!
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So if the cooncil cannae answer the question, what chance has the driver got of knowing the right weight limit?

Just keep pushing until you slip a disc or the wheelchair coups ower?

I think there isn't a set weight cos it all depends on the gradient/camber of the road.

My best advice is that if the job don't look or feel right, then don't do it. Easy for me to say, but the only way forward.

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