>The main problem with the RVSU's new job breifing book is that it is a company document that you are required to sign after filling it out. There are various fields in it, such as the one that requires you to write in what your commitment to safety is for the day, that the company can use against you in a FELA case. Thus, it transfers responsibility (i.e., liablilty) from the company to the employee.

Almost as bad as the Amtrak Circle of Pointing Fingers. At this point in the discussion, allow me to recommend The Captive Mind by the late Czeslaw Milocz, a Nobel laureate in poetry (pronounced Chezlaw Meewosh). [www.amazon.com]. Or as Monty Python put it in the Hollywood director's sketch (Irving O Salzburg) "Er, yea, splunge for me too".