REPORT CONCERNS ON THE GO WITH NEW APP

W hen workers asked us for a CIRAS reporting app, we listened, and now the CIRAS app is available to download for free on the App Store and Google Play Store. The app features a simple reporting form, or you can press its quick-dial button to call the reporting hotline and speak to someone. For faster reporting, you can save your details on the app. Then it’ll take even less time to submit your concern next time. Some of the reasons people asked us for an app was its appeal to younger staff and because it makes reporting on the go much easier. ‘Everyone has a phone these days,’ and another benefit of an app is ‘you don’t have to wait [to report] – people get busy and might forget otherwise’. Confidential reporting You can use the CIRAS confidential reporting service to share your health, safety and wellbeing concerns with your employer or another company. This helps to improve safety and reduce risk. CIRAS listens to your concerns and sends them to the company in confidence, protecting your identity. If you tell CIRAS about your concern, CIRAS will also send you the response from the company they shared it with. CIRAS listens to a wide range of concerns impacting health, safety and wellbeing, including about organisational and industry change, culture, infrastructure assets, systems and environmental issues. Concerns do not need to have been reported through another channel before being raised with CIRAS. But if an issue is an immediate safety risk, it should be reported through appropriate alternative channels instead. As well as the app, you can share your concern with CIRAS on 0800 4 101 101, use the reporting form at https://www.ciras.org.uk or use Freepost CIRAS. Go to youtube.com/@CIRAS_reporting to watch a demo of the new CIRAS reporting app. RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: july/august 2023 :: RMTnews 26 REPORT CONCERNS ON THE GO WITH NEW APP