Primary School Visit - Road Safety Input & Donation of Signs & Toy PPE
23 June 2025
June 2025 - Visit to Cairns Primary School Cambuslang
Road Safety Input & Donation of Play Sized Road Signs & Toy Traffic Management Signs, Cones & PPE.
Earlier in the year, Amey, based at their Polmadie Office in Glasgow and who operate & maintain the Trunk Roads in the South West of Scotland, were contacted by the Deputy Head teacher at Cairns Primary School, Cambuslang, Michael Farrell, who asked for a donation of old traffic cones & signs from our trunk road network. Amey’s Liaison officer Martin Cochrane visited the school, met Mr Farrell and explained that unfortunately due to health & safety reasons, old signage was disposed of or recycled but a request to visit the school with another member of staff, to give an input into Road Safety for Children, was granted.
On Monday 23rd June 2025, Gerry Docherty, Amey’s Operational Safety Advisor & Client CDM Representative, and Martin Cochrane, Amey’s liaison officer, both based at Amey’s Polmadie Office, visited the school and spoke to 25 pupils from a P2 class in relation to Road Safety, with information provided by ROSPA.
Martin introduced the children to Amey and the work that they do on trunk roads in Scotland including the nearby M74 motorway. Gerry gave an input on Road Safety, paying particular attention to the Green Cross Code, with important ‘Do’s & Don’ts’ for young children when out on local authority roads and footpaths.
Acting on the school’s initial request for old road signs and cones, a sub-contractor for Amey, (Bridge to Talent) purchased some toy traffic cones, traffic signals, children’s high-viz vests and hard hats, as a gift for the school. In addition, Amey contacted Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturer (SBMC) at Erskine Veterans Hospital (a social enterprise, assisting veterans with physical and mental disabilities, back into the workplace) and commissioned them to manufacture a selection of road signage suitable for child’s play and imagination, during lessons on construction work and personal safety.
During their visit to the school and whilst interacting with the P2 class, Gerry and Martin presented the children with various play signage donated by Amey and were photographed with the grateful children and their deputy head teacher Michael Farrell, in the main playground area of their school (see photograph below).
Ends.