{"id":29241,"date":"2021-06-18T16:55:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T15:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=29241"},"modified":"2021-06-18T16:55:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T15:55:43","slug":"vigilance-commitment-and-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=29241","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Vigilance, commitment and dedication\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Unite rep Franco Villani has won a prestigious TUC award for his outstanding contribution to health and safety at an East Yorkshire hospital during the coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Villani, who works at Bridlington Hospital as a maintenance engineer, has been awarded the TUC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s John White Award for Health and Safety and Wellbeing Representative of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Villani won the award for raising and addressing major concerns about the protection of staff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He recognised that workers in the hospital were being asked to handle Covid contaminated laundry without protection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Villani also discovered that drivers transporting Covid-ward and ICU staff between hospitals were also not being provided with the correct self-management advice and protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a workplace representative for more than 20 years, Franco said he hoped that the award would inspire others to become more active in their branches.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI am delighted and honoured to receive this award. I hope it will encourage other trade union reps and members to strive to improve their health and safety, welfare and working conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI would like to thank everyone who I work with at Bridlington Hospital who operate collaboratively day in-day out on health and safety issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe staff have been outstanding during the Covid-19 pandemic.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chief executive of Bridlington hospital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NHS Trust, Simon Morritt, praised Villani for \u00e2\u20ac\u0098his vigilance, commitment and dedication to his fellow workers in these unprecedented times\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morritt added, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bHe is described as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a true role model and guiding light for us all\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and I know he is universally liked and well thought of. Congratulations Franco \u00e2\u20ac\u201c keep up the fantastic work.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by Ryan Fletcher <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite rep Franco Villani has won a prestigious TUC award for his outstanding contribution to health and safety at an East Yorkshire hospital during the coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"Unite rep Franco Villani wins prestigious TUC award for pandemic H&amp;S work","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29246,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29241\/revisions\/29246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}