Re: Another RSA worker killed

["Daniel Nightingale" <dnightingale@bigpond.nospam.com>]

<sni>

>What was the RSA worker doing on the tracks?  From what I read in the
papers, he
>stepped in front of the train.  His fault, not Cityrail.
>
>The only thing that can come out of this is that all rail workers who
venture
>onto tracks need to be better educated about looking before moving.

His fault? A man has died, let's not lay blame so quickly. If the train
driver knew that there was work ahead, does that not also make him partly
responsible? Or what about the engineer in charge of the site. Let the
investigation decide who takes the blame, not us.

There is a new Australian Standard under development, AS (something)
Reporting of Railway Occurences. I read about it on the NRTC website.
Hopefully a common thread to these devastating accidents can be found.

Kind Regards,

Daniel.