Re: Concord derailment

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

Krel wrote in message <35838f16.853039@news.netconnect.com.au>...
>On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 22:01:50 +1000, "Tezza" <tezza@atinet.com.au>
>>Ben Staples wrote in message <357fb4b1.0@139.134.5.33>...
>>>Even though this is being pedantic, I saw four NR employees walking "on
>>>track" without orange safety vests on while train crew swapping today.


>>NR have green, so-called safety vests.

>In NSW we 'must' wear an orange vest because if we wore a yellow one
>people would think we were a yellow flag and react accordingly.

>In Vic we 'must' wear a yellow vest because orange is used by road
>workers and an orange vest may be mistaken for a red flag. The
>exception to this is a track worker holding a steady yellow flag
>(indicating 'audible track warning devices present' - detonators in
>NSW-speak) he gets to wear an orange vest so we can see his yellow
>flag.

>In the real world we wear whatever colour we can get out of stores,
>after all, who cares, so long as you are seen clearly. I would argue
>that it is more important to have reflectorised strips on a safety
>vest than to have any particular colour.


There were a few red vests getting around for a while which we had to report
upon sighting. WorkCover has not been able to come up with any figures for
Drivers being injured or killed by trains, yet they still insist on these
ridiculous things.