Rule Book

The unsafe new Rule Book imposed on Tube workers in 2007

How the new Rule Book threatens stations jobs

Under the new Rule Book, Station Supervisors lose the following responsiblities:

  • giving the 'second right' (now called 'assisted despatch') to trains stopped part way out of a platform where there is working in-cab CCTV on which the driver can see the whole of the PTI, or where there are PED doors...

New Rule Book, New Danger

Managers are now giving the new Rule Book out to staff.

LUL has presented this as mainly just a make-over, replacing the unwieldy old Working Reference Manual with the shiny, new, easy-to-read, user-friendly Rule Books. If that was all it is, then fine. But it's not.

Read the little pamphlet that...

Bye Bye Second Right

Management now seem set on withdrawing the 'second right' in certain circumstances - if the train has in-cab CCTV and/or the station has PED doors. Management intend that this come into effect when the new rule book is issued.

Funnily enough, the company seem to be promoting the 'new' rule book as...

Radio Gaga

Northern Line management are proposing a change, to allow Line Controllers to authorise drivers to apply the rule over the radio. There are two big reasons why we should oppose this:

1. Is the radio actually secure?

2. It represents a change to the Rule Book as Line Controllers do not currently...

Juice On, Juice Off, Whatever

Here's another little gem from the Working Reference Manual review. Apparently, although management accept that the juice has to be off when you open a section switch - after all, you'd fry if it weren't, and that might cost them some money - they reckon it can be left on as you walk to the switch...

CRIDs: they only come out at night

Details continue to slip out about the Working Reference Manual review, and mangement's slapdash attitude to safety.

The latest to reach Tubeworker's ears is that, apparently, CRIDs (that's Current Rail Indicator Devices for the uninitiated) are only for use during engineering hours or by the...

'Dynamic'

So you thought that the Rule Book was, er, a book of rules that you have to follow? We thought so too, but it seems that we might have been wrong.

Apparently, a Rostered Duty Officer (a what?) can bend the rules if s/he carries out a "dynamic risk assessment" in "real time". At least, that's the...

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