Elf and Safety

[thatbloke]

But he knew it could have been delt with by the people trained to do this kind of work fast and without disruption , but he still decided to play the hero.
At the end of the day he didnt have to act in this way, he broke rules that are there to stop people killing them selves.

 

[ub7rm]

If something had happened to him it would have been network rails fault.

He put himself and others at risk by taking actions that were outside his area of responsibility and almost certainly contravened NR's procedures and guidelines and quite possibly legislation as well.

They are well within their rights to fire him and I think it was probably appropriate in this case. Once that sort of complacency sets in its difficult to change, and if you get away with it once it could set a precedence for others. You either have a zero tolerance approach to health and safety infringement or you don't ...

All this assumes he had appropriate training and awareness of the procedures. If he didn't its his bosses fault.

 

[wreckedit]

Why when he asked for the live rail to be turned off, was it not done immediately?

I doubt this was possible because of the set procedures for the switching had to be adhered to. Otherwise a persons life could be in danger. Also, after it was done he would have had an authorising call to carry on or a team would have been sent out. Probably depending on the object to be removed. He either broke the rules blatantly or forgot. He probably has a rule book procedure to read anyway. Either way he put himself at risk and that could have been devastating at that stage. If a train had been derailed it wasn't his fault and he had done what he could. In any case I suspect the people he phoned could have stopped a train very easily so there was no need for him to panic after the initial phone call.

I have some sympathy for the guy because of his wonderful service but in this case at least the public can moan about it rather than going to his funeral.

 

[thatbloke]

you cannot simply turn a live rail off without first f9ollowing some sort of safety procedure , what happens if a train stalls as a result? A stationary train isnt the kind of thing I would like to have a collision with if I were another train driver.