OPRRMS Wrote:
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> theconductor Wrote:
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> Risk management doesn't enhance safety, it hinders
> it.
>
FSI is lower now than it has ever been. Something is working!

>
> > Of course it's not going to prevent all
> injuries,
> > but if it stops just one isn't it worth it? Are
> > you going to tell me that not one persons life
> of
> > limb has been spared because of better
> visibility?
> > I have seen a carmen run over a trainman in
> broad
> > daylight. You can't tell me that not once a
> > conductor or carman or other employee has
> avoided
> > being hit by a car on a dark yard road because
> the
> > shiny reflective strip caught a drivers eyes.
> > Likewise an engineer. Again, if just one person
> is
> > saved it's worth it to me. I could be that
> > person.
>
> Wearing a reflective vest may indeed prevent one
> from being hit by a vehicle on a dark road, but it
> won't deter a locomotive or car. BNSF had a
> fatality in its yard in Tulsa early Wednesday
> morning. I bet that person was wearing the
> required PPE equipment.

Unless the vest created the incident then you have no argument. The amount injuries that happen is irrelevant (unless of course they were caused by the vest), it's the amount of injuries that didn't.
>
>
> Really? I've found that now that everyone's
> wearing the same color, it's hard to keep focused
> on which person is giving the hand signals. Used
> to be that if Bill was wearing a red shirt and Joe
> was wearing a blue shirt, I could tell them apart
> from 30 cars away and keep my eyes focused on
> whichever one gave me the last sign. But no more.
> Now eveyone's green. It's even worse now that
> there are so many students attached to the crews.
> Green vests everywhere.

I see how that could be confusing, but all an engineer has to do is request using the radio of two crews are in the same area. Otherwise only one person per crew should be using hand signals.
>
> >snip<
>
> > I agree with you that a lot of the above
> mentioned
> > things are redundant. I personally hate the job
> > briefing books, but if the company wants me to
> > spend my paid time filling one out and reading
> > countless new bulletins then what do I care?
> They
> > pay me, they can use my time however they want.
> > I'm going home in 12 regardless!
>
> I, too, don't care how long it takes. 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.

I have the same book being in the RVSU and until the company actually uses anyone's commitment to safety against them in a FELA case you are just making unfounded assumptions.
>
>
> The unions aren't involved in the hiring process.
> That's done entirely by the railroad.

And they shouldn't be.