Security

Security in our workplaces

Remembering 7/7

Today is the eighth anniversary of the bombings on London Underground that killed over fifty people. Tubeworker published a special issue at the time. You can read it here.

Wander-Staffed

We all know that security is a key issue, but management seem to have forgotten that security checks need staff!

Major central London stations now have wall-mounted devices at strategic locations which staff have to touch with an electronic 'wand' to confirm that they have checked that the area is...

Bang!

Last week, the reaction to unattended packages on London Underground trains hit explosive new levels. Mid-afternoon on 28 January, the Metrolpolitan police bomb squad carried out a controlled explosion on a District line train at Wimbledon.

The station had been evacuated, but with the official...

Doing checks on the staff

Has anyone else noticed five-pence-sized silver discs starting to appear on the walls in stations? Apparently, this is management's idea of how to make us carry out security checks properly. We will have to run around the station, touching every disc with some device - like something out of a kid's...

Serious or Critical?

Tubeworker is still trying to get our head round the idea that while the country as a whole has a security level of 'critical', ours is a mere 'serious' (one step less serious than 'critical'). What, is London Underground some kind of place of safety, a refuge from the unsafe streets?!

Management...

Suspect Device

Jubilee Line management pulled a stunt that they thought would be a nice, attention-grabbing bit of propaganda, but has backfired and upset staff.

They send everyone a DVD, in a packet - not marked with the company's logo or a return address - which also contained a piece of signal cable. The...

OSN52? What?

Remember OSN52? It's the Operational Standards Notice which was supposed to improve the way we evacuated the system in the event of another terror attack like the one on 7th July 2005?

The problem has been that it has not been circulated around the workforce particularly effectively - by management...

How Secure Are You?

During refurb work at Epping, Metronet has employed a security guard to protect its worksite. But the guard has been getting rather too close to the ticket barrier, on occasion looking like a substitute member of station staff.

Local union reps complained, and Metronet'sman backed off for a while...

Not Enough Staff = Not Enough Safety

Last night at Bank, call point operation triggered an evacuation ... and the P.A. failed. No Inspector Sands, no P.A. from the control room, nothing.

With superhuman effort, the staff evacuated the complex in twenty minutes. Fortunately, it was a false alarm. Had it been a fire, people would have...

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