Re: Driver Training 3

["Mr X" <Rail.bob.eastwestfreight@foothills.net>]

Accreditation is only the beginning.

This is a very basic nature of track access requirements, which will have to
become federal soon.

Peter Homann <phomann@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
news:39835F84.AF0BE110@optushome.com.au...
> Mr X crawled back out from under a rock to drivel:
>
> > Driver training.
> > If you all say everything is rosy anyway, why are there so many mishaps
on
> > NSW's urban system?????
> > If you had any idea, you would see that rail has been deregulated here,
and
> > state regulation expects employees to know it all, without being trained
> > correctly.
> > This just might be the reason for all these mishaps.
> > Or, do you think it has something to do with the position of the moon???
> > ^.^
>
> Firstup, I agree with Dave Proctor that while there are state bodies,
there is
> no National body to cover the issue of rail safety, but I never siad
everything
> was rosy!
>
> <gripe>
> This puts companies like NR, FA, etc. etc. into the ridiculous situation
of
> having to go through the whole process of gaining accreditation to operate
in 5
> states.  That's five lots of paperwork, not one!  And needs to be reviewed
> every year too.  Plus working under potentially different interpretations
of
> the same standard.
> </gripe>
>
> Anyway, back to the CityRail issue.  The whole "business" of rail safety
it set
> up to attribute blame to whoever didn't do what they could have done to
prevent
> a safety issue.  This quite often ends up pointing at management, in that
if
> there is an incident, the investigation quite often comes around to
pointing at
> management as to why certain things weren't done, and training almost
always
> seems to come up (in the reports I have seen anyway).
> So, does CityRail management need to change their focus from a completely
> "on-time running or bust" mentality to a "work safe and the on-time
running
> should happen by itself" focus?  I dunno, coz I don't live in Sydney, but
from
> afar, it sounds like it...
>
> <slaps forehead>
> Hey, why am I arguing with someone who is too gutless to put his real name
on
> an email??
> :->
>
> Cheers.
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