Agenda and minutes

Resolved:- That the minutes of the previous meeting of the Cabinet Member and Advisers for Waste and Emergency Planning held on 3rd February, 2014, be approved as a correct record for signature by the Chairman.

Consideration was given to the update provided by the Emergency and Safety Manager and the Principal Health and Safety Officer.  The update included:-

(a) Business Continuity

: Regular presentations provided for Sheffield City Council colleagues on Recovery and Restoration awareness.

: Meetings with Zurich Insurance about Sheffield City Council building resilience strategy.

: This Council’s seasonal flu vaccination programme debrief has commenced; feedback being collated to be shared with the Rotherham multi-agency vaccination group and to formulate action plan for 2014/15 delivery plan (working with both Rotherham and Sheffield Public Health on this matter).

: This Council’s Pandemic Flu plan disseminated (after ratification at SESMT).

(b) Emergency Planning

: Took part and facilitated Exercise Rutland on Tuesday 4 February 2014. South Yorkshire-wide LRF exercise with over 150 in attendance throughout the day. The exercise was well received and the lessons learned from it will be incorporated into future planning arrangements.

: Use of a specialist Police Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear (CBRN) Silver Commander to train the Forward Liaison Officers. The training was well received and gave the FLOs an idea of what to expect in an incident of this nature.

: Reviewing this Council’s approach to Public Safety in Events.

(c) Health, Welfare and Safety

: Participation in an Emergency Planning exercise and supported participants in a simulated exercise involving a dam breaching.

: Carried out an unplanned inspection of Streetpride road workers undertaking re-surfacing works in Bramley. During the inspection all staff on site were adhering to good health and safety practices and the correct personal protective equipment was being worn by everyone.

: Delivered a Lone-Working workshop for managers of lone workers. This workshop assisted managers to update either existing risk assessments, or to develop new ones and to assess the control measures in place to ensure the safety of lone workers.

: Health and safety and road safety refresher training for drivers of heavy and large vehicles.

: Carried out an Asbestos Refurbishment Survey at a Primary School.

: Carried out a health and safety inspection of the stadium at Herringthorpe Playing Fields. The building and track are generally in a good state of repair and maintained to a reasonable standard.

Resolved:- That the update be noted and the Emergency and Safety Manager and the Principal Health and Safety Officer be thanked for their contribution.

Consideration was given to a report presented by the Waste Manager, outlining proposals to re-schedule the current commercial waste collection fleet. This proposal will facilitate the introduction of the remaining rural properties onto a garden waste collection service, on an alternate week basis. As part of this process, the rural properties will be provided with green bins for garden waste and some of the properties will also receive a black bin to replace the current sack collections.

The report described the rationale for this proposal, included details of the financing and stated that residents would be informed of the timescale for these changes. The revised waste collection arrangements will begin during the week commencing Monday 31^st March 2014.

Resolved:- (1) That the report be received and its contents noted.

(2) That the remaining rural properties within the Rotherham Borough area be placed on a garden waste collection service, on an alternate week basis, so as to be in line with the rest of the Borough area and to encourage the recycling of waste materials.

Consideration was given to the update provided by the Waste Manager, Environment and Development Services and the BDR Waste Manager.  The update included:-

(a) the finalisation of working arrangements for Interim Waste Treatment and Disposal for 2014/15;

(b) the continuing discussions with partner organisations concerning the opening hours of Household Waste Recycling Centres, in accordance with the decision of Cabinet.

(c) cross-boundary waste disposal issues being discussed with Barnsley Borough Council (including re-tendering of green waste collection contract for Barnsley);

(d) details of the tendering period for the renewal of the ‘dry recyclable’ contract;

(e) programme of demonstration of refuse collection vehicles, to support new fleet provision;

(f) consideration of waste analysis to inform the performance of the BDR sub-Regional waste plant.

Resolved:- That the update be noted and the Waste Manager and the BDR Waste Manager be thanked for their contributions.