Re: Driver Training 3

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Mr X" <Rail.bob.eastwestfreight@foothills.net> wrote in message
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> Accreditation is only the beginning.
>
> This is a very basic nature of track access requirements, which will have
to
> become federal soon.

Are you planning a referendum to change the Constitution to make railways a
federal responsibility?

Dave

> 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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> >
>
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