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Dumb Ways to Improve Rail Safety

August 13, 2019 by Barry Spud 30 Comments

Spotted in a Sydney Metro Station this week – thoughts?

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  1. witzshared says

    February 13, 2020 at 8:00 PM

    Glad to see Venom found some honest work.

    Reply
  2. Dyno says

    February 13, 2020 at 7:59 PM

    Oh wait a minute. We are NOT supposed to slip on the stairs to ensure we don’t experience harm or pain? Well hell, NOW it is all crystal clear. I, for one, did not know any better and/or forgot this very insightful and well thought out tip. How did we ever make it as a species without Safety people? Here I was taking all sorts of risks. I am a little embarrassed to admit this but believe it or not I actually walked around my house this morning to get breakfast and did not have any reminders or tips as to how I should accomplish that safely. Talk about complacency and pure luck on my part! Frankly without a sign or safety moment to tell me how to type these words safely, I feel I must stop now because I am at risk or all kinds of potential harm.

    Reply
    • Rob long says

      February 13, 2020 at 10:08 PM

      Safety is the only industry that has no idea of how to talk about fallibility and so in desperation resort to childish symbols and heroes of mythology to find meaning in risk. If my grandkids saw this gimp they would run away in fear and probably have an accident.

      Reply
  3. Rob Long says

    February 13, 2020 at 7:59 PM

    When you don’t know what to do and have an ideology of dumb down this is what you end up with.

    Reply
  4. Ray Lane says

    February 13, 2020 at 7:59 PM

    Personally, I think we should be glad that this is Rail Safety Week. Train travel should be safe from slipping passengers until Sunday.

    Reply
  5. David Hickey says

    February 13, 2020 at 7:59 PM

    I thought the yellow S&M like collar was a nice touch.

    Reply
    • Dave Collins says

      February 13, 2020 at 8:04 PM

      hah – safety isn’t real good with semotics. Thanks for alerting me to this eye rolling campaign

      Reply
  6. bernardcorden says

    February 13, 2020 at 7:59 PM

    It’s worth taking a look at NSW state rail and its performance under Nick (I don’t remember) Groaner, another crepuscular and fiscally conservative neoliberal acolyte.

    Following a Booz Allen Hamilton report in 1989, north coast rail services were considered commercially unviable and brutally slashed. This was exacerbated by widespread redundancies throughout country rail operations to recoup a burgeoning $1 billion annual debt. It left a much maligned goat track as the only transport link between north coast towns and the consequences soon emerged via the Cowper and Clybucca disasters with the horrific deaths of 56 people.

    Some two years before the horrific bus smashes his partner, the daughter of a Commonwealth Bank executive, was acquitted of a mid-range drink driving charge. It followed a lunchtime o’booze at a Central Coast business function, which left the Kirribilli princess feeling rather tired and emotional.

    The report from the coronial inquest into Australia’s worst road disasters inevitably blamed the drivers although it is curiously unavailable on the state coroners website and a book containing a summary of the investigation by the late coroner is now out of print.

    Indeed, official investigations into both disasters remain as enigmatic as the White River Timber tax records, which surreptitiously went up in smoke following a frantic Judᴂan-Hungarian stocktake

    Reply
  7. Ed says

    February 13, 2020 at 7:59 PM

    This has given me awhile to respond. Trying to be brief this poses a few questions and observations for me in regard to just how far has workplace safety developed in the thirty plus years its been about. Really…is this “initiative” and example of where we are after all this time. Is this the best a “model” employer can come up with.
    I think about the “team” behind it. What is the cost of the “team”, is it an example of value for money. How much has been “invested” in development & training and is this the extent and end result of the “development & training. Just think of the “professional” body that perhaps members of the “team” belongs to, what does it say?
    I think about the areas where there has been development in this area, its heavily in the “soft” side of workplace safety, but where it matters most, where it takes work, social skills etc….hard work….its left wallowing, and I feel this signage demonstrates it well.

    Reply
    • bernardcorden says

      February 13, 2020 at 8:04 PM

      If it uses our peak industry body as a yardstick, its hardly surprising it generates such trash. Just take a look at the drivel and turgid sludge from numerous safety conferences across the region. It beggars belief what the Australian Institute of Heinrich and Skinner will come up with for the next world congress following the Vision Zero Hillsong gathering in Singapore…….If you’re happy and you know it stamp your feet.

      Reply
  8. Tony Jenkins says

    February 13, 2020 at 7:58 PM

    Oh dear! This is about as effective as placing a cat with Ice Skates on an Ice Rink & then expecting it to tread carefully & not slip & slide!

    Reply
  9. John Culvenor says

    February 13, 2020 at 7:58 PM

    Humorous. But generally slipping down is the problem.

    Reply
  10. Ray Lane says

    February 13, 2020 at 7:58 PM

    “Let’s do a safety something. Anything.”
    This is cheaper than replacing our nice-looking but low grip floor treatments.

    Reply
    • Dave Collins says

      February 13, 2020 at 7:58 PM

      Yep, that sign wreaks of blame and compliance – yet what the hell does it really mean to a passing commuter? Apart from an automatic eye roll…..

      Reply
  11. bernardcorden says

    February 13, 2020 at 7:58 PM

    The Grenfell Tower disaster has achieved a similar response from local governments and many property managers, which are underpinned by telemarketing scams. This often involves the engagement of backpacker labour without workers compensation insurance to performance building maintenance until one of them is electrocuted. The bereaved families are left chasing smoke and encounter a tyranny of bureaucracy as faceless panjandrums in state and local governments sacrifice the truth to protect reputations and evade accountability, which is typically diffused and defused into a tyranny of bureaucracy. It sounds very much like the home insulation program…….History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce.

    Meanwhile our peak industry body sits on the fence with its vision of safe and healthy people in productive workplaces and communities. The primary object of safety legislation is to secure the health and safety of people at work.

    The only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow streak and dead armadillos – Jim Hightower.

    Reply
  12. Ray Lane says

    August 15, 2019 at 1:49 PM

    Personally, I think we should be glad that this is Rail Safety Week. Train travel should be safe from slipping passengers until Sunday.

    Reply
  13. Ed says

    August 15, 2019 at 1:41 PM

    This has given me awhile to respond. Trying to be brief this poses a few questions and observations for me in regard to just how far has workplace safety developed in the thirty plus years its been about. Really…is this “initiative” and example of where we are after all this time. Is this the best a “model” employer can come up with.
    I think about the “team” behind it. What is the cost of the “team”, is it an example of value for money. How much has been “invested” in development & training and is this the extent and end result of the “development & training. Just think of the “professional” body that perhaps members of the “team” belongs to, what does it say?
    I think about the areas where there has been development in this area, its heavily in the “soft” side of workplace safety, but where it matters most, where it takes work, social skills etc….hard work….its left wallowing, and I feel this signage demonstrates it well.

    Reply
    • bernardcorden says

      August 15, 2019 at 4:51 PM

      If it uses our peak industry body as a yardstick, its hardly surprising it generates such trash. Just take a look at the drivel and turgid sludge from numerous safety conferences across the region. It beggars belief what the Australian Institute of Heinrich and Skinner will come up with for the next world congress following the Vision Zero Hillsong gathering in Singapore…….If you’re happy and you know it stamp your feet.

      Reply
  14. Dyno says

    August 14, 2019 at 9:28 PM

    Oh wait a minute. We are NOT supposed to slip on the stairs to ensure we don’t experience harm or pain? Well hell, NOW it is all crystal clear. I, for one, did not know any better and/or forgot this very insightful and well thought out tip. How did we ever make it as a species without Safety people? Here I was taking all sorts of risks. I am a little embarrassed to admit this but believe it or not I actually walked around my house this morning to get breakfast and did not have any reminders or tips as to how I should accomplish that safely. Talk about complacency and pure luck on my part! Frankly without a sign or safety moment to tell me how to type these words safely, I feel I must stop now because I am at risk or all kinds of potential harm.

    Reply
    • Rob long says

      August 15, 2019 at 6:24 AM

      Safety is the only industry that has no idea of how to talk about fallibility and so in desperation resort to childish symbols and heroes of mythology to find meaning in risk. If my grandkids saw this gimp they would run away in fear and probably have an accident.

      Reply
  15. Rob Long says

    August 14, 2019 at 4:06 PM

    When you don’t know what to do and have an ideology of dumb down this is what you end up with.

    Reply
  16. John Culvenor says

    August 13, 2019 at 3:05 PM

    Humorous. But generally slipping down is the problem.

    Reply
  17. bernardcorden says

    August 13, 2019 at 1:40 PM

    It’s worth taking a look at NSW state rail and its performance under Nick (I don’t remember) Groaner, another crepuscular and fiscally conservative neoliberal acolyte.

    Following a Booz Allen Hamilton report in 1989, north coast rail services were considered commercially unviable and brutally slashed. This was exacerbated by widespread redundancies throughout country rail operations to recoup a burgeoning $1 billion annual debt. It left a much maligned goat track as the only transport link between north coast towns and the consequences soon emerged via the Cowper and Clybucca disasters with the horrific deaths of 56 people.

    Some two years before the horrific bus smashes his partner, the daughter of a Commonwealth Bank executive, was acquitted of a mid-range drink driving charge. It followed a lunchtime o’booze at a Central Coast business function, which left the Kirribilli princess feeling rather tired and emotional.

    The report from the coronial inquest into Australia’s worst road disasters inevitably blamed the drivers although it is curiously unavailable on the state coroners website and a book containing a summary of the investigation by the late coroner is now out of print.

    Indeed, official investigations into both disasters remain as enigmatic as the White River Timber tax records, which surreptitiously went up in smoke following a frantic Judᴂan-Hungarian stocktake

    Reply
  18. David Hickey says

    August 13, 2019 at 10:01 AM

    I thought the yellow S&M like collar was a nice touch.

    Reply
    • Dave Collins says

      August 13, 2019 at 10:12 AM

      hah – safety isn’t real good with semotics. Thanks for alerting me to this eye rolling campaign

      Reply
  19. witzshared says

    August 13, 2019 at 9:43 AM

    Glad to see Venom found some honest work.

    Reply
  20. bernardcorden says

    August 13, 2019 at 9:10 AM

    The Grenfell Tower disaster has achieved a similar response from local governments and many property managers, which are underpinned by telemarketing scams. This often involves the engagement of backpacker labour without workers compensation insurance to performance building maintenance until one of them is electrocuted. The bereaved families are left chasing smoke and encounter a tyranny of bureaucracy as faceless panjandrums in state and local governments sacrifice the truth to protect reputations and evade accountability, which is typically diffused and defused into a tyranny of bureaucracy. It sounds very much like the home insulation program…….History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce.

    Meanwhile our peak industry body sits on the fence with its vision of safe and healthy people in productive workplaces and communities. The primary object of safety legislation is to secure the health and safety of people at work.

    The only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow streak and dead armadillos – Jim Hightower.

    Reply
  21. Tony Jenkins says

    August 13, 2019 at 9:08 AM

    Oh dear! This is about as effective as placing a cat with Ice Skates on an Ice Rink & then expecting it to tread carefully & not slip & slide!

    Reply
  22. Ray Lane says

    August 13, 2019 at 8:47 AM

    “Let’s do a safety something. Anything.”
    This is cheaper than replacing our nice-looking but low grip floor treatments.

    Reply
    • Dave Collins says

      August 13, 2019 at 9:10 AM

      Yep, that sign wreaks of blame and compliance – yet what the hell does it really mean to a passing commuter? Apart from an automatic eye roll…..

      Reply

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