Threatening behaviour towards crews pauses £1.5m Tamworth highways scheme

A £1.5 million project to reconstruct a key roundabout junction in Tamworth has been temporarily paused due to two incidents of threatening behaviour towards crews onsite. Staffordshire County Council’s highways crews have spent the last month resurfacing sections of the Coleshill Street island in Fazeley and its approaches, including Lichfield Street and Atherstone Street on […]
Date Announced for Stamp It Out and Respect our Workforce Week 2025

Next March the industry will come together again for the second Respect our Workforce week, taking place March 10-14th 2025, with the annual Stamp It Out Summit taking place in Manchester on March 11th. The theme for the week will be ‘My Mind Matters’ in response to the growing concern around the effect verbal and […]
New survey to understand the effects of abuse on road operatives introduced by Stamp it Out

A new survey aimed at finding out the effect verbal and physical abuse is having on road operatives has been sent to over 10,000 people working in the highways sector. The survey, commissioned by Stamp It Out-the industry-led campaign to eradicate road worker abuse, will ask how operatives feel about abuse and how it has […]
Vip Gandhi to become chair of Stamp it Out

T\he industry-led campaign to erradicate road-worker abuse, Stamp It Out, has announced Vip Gandhi Director as the new Chair of the programme. Prior to joining Sir Robert McAlpine as Managing Director of Transport, Vip was the Managing Director (Highways) at Keltbray and is a Member of the Board of Trustees at Safer Highways. He previously […]
Oxfordshire Council and contractor Milestone supports Respect our Workforce Week which helps highlights issue of growing abuse of roadworkers

Violence and verbal abuse against people working on our roads is being highlighted in a new campaign starting today [Monday 11 March]. The first Respect our Workforce Week runs from 11 – 15 March. It is organised by campaign group Stamp it Out and is supported by Oxfordshire County Council, its highways contractor Milestone and has the […]
Industry comes together for Respect Our Workforce Week, as Stamp It Out campaign proves awareness leads to increases in reporting

Resources are now available for company’s wanting to support the forthcoming Respect Our Worforce Week, taking place March 11th-15th. The campaign is calling on the whole supply chain to help raise awareness of the challenges facing our workforce as well as the solutions being providing to solve them. Respect Our Workforce week, aims to empower […]
Gainsborough Trinity become the first club in the football league pyramid to support campaign to end public facing worker abuse by wearing a one off shirt

Pitching In Northern Premier side Gainsborough Trinity have become the first football club to back the Stamp it Out campaign, which aims to eliminate the abuse of public facing workers Taking place between the 11th and 15th of March 2024 the week will be this year’s culmination of a series of activities designed to highlight […]
Stamp it Out secures funding from Kent CC for county-wide rollout

Stamp it Out, the industry led programme aiming to make roadworker abuse socially unacceptable, have received funding from the Kent Lane Rental scheme for a county-wide rollout of the programme. To take place in the new year, the rollout will encompass not only highways workers but also will include the Highways Inspectors, employed directly by […]
Southampton City Council and Chapter 8 reinforce zero tolerance of abuse with digital signs

Motorists driving into Southampton on one of its may roads are left in no doubt about the council’s view of abuse towards its workforce. Sitting loud and proud over the Southampton skyline, the city’s council, alongside its contractors Balfour Beatty Living Places and Chapter 8 TM reinforce a zero tolerance massage around roadworker abuse. In […]
Footage of deliberate incursion on A5 emerges

Footage of a motorist deliberately entering a road closure has emerged It appears to have been filmed on the A5 in roadworks near Magda Park in Leicestershire.. In the clip the motorist – egged on by his passenger is seen to pass multiple warning vehicles before weaving past traffic management vehicles before driving through the […]