Re: Derailment at Concort West - Reason

["Tezza" <tezza@atinet.com.au>]

Maurie Daly wrote in message ...
>Irrespective of who or what is to blame for this accident , all employers
are
>legally obliged under the Occupational Health & Safety provisions to
provide a
>safe working environment for their employers.
>One of the findings of the accident into the Beresfield Accident was that
>although the accident was probably caused by the driver being asleep , a
major
>contributing factor was that the safeworking system in place failed to do
>anything to prevent the accident.
>Indeed going back  just a few years and looking at the history of train
>accidents like
>The Cowan Bank crash.
>The Hines Hill crash.
>The Mt Christie head On.
>Beresfield.
>And the current accident , in all cases the safeworking systems in place
did
>absolutely nothing to prevent or even warn the drivers of any impending
>problem.
>It may have been a reasonable excuse 20 years ago , for railway
>administrations to argue that there was nothing they could do to implement
any
>form of ATC systems for trains , but today there is no excuse whatever.
>As drivers are being called upon to work longer & longer hours and to drive
>trains with only one driver,the obligation is now on the railway employers
to
>provide a safe working environment for their staff.
>Its simply no excuse to argue that its too expensive.



But Drivers are getting that massive $18.50 an hour! Surely we could train
monkeys to do it for less.