LT Health & safety

Health & safety issues on London's Transport

Off The Premises

Victoria station needs asbestos removal, and management's plan is that the ticket office should be relocated to a Portakabin outside the mainline station upstairs for the duration of the works.

Station staff are, naturally, concerned that anyone working in the ticket office will be outside the...

St Pauls: Demanding Dignity

OK, so a station undergoing a refurb is never going to be the most comfortable place to work, but St Pauls became a nightmare. A mess room unfit to eat in, toilets unfit to use, staff feeling vulnerable on the gateline late at night cos the Supervisors' office has been temporarily relocated away...

Wot No Overalls?

Metronet workers are missing their overalls. Apparently, Metronet owes the laundry company a shedload of money, so the laundry company won't return the overalls once cleaned!

But it is of no interest to workers which bosses (or accountants) have fallen out with other bosses. What bothers us is...

Refusing Squalor

P-Way staff at West Kensington got thoroughly fed up with the squalor of the P-Way Cabin. So what did they do? Put up with it? Moan to each other and do nothing? No, they refused to work on the grounds of health and safety and booked on at Griffith House instead.

Then, all of a sudden, after...

Sanitary Protection?

A night station supervisor at Dagenham East station was disgusted to find the sanitary bin in the toilets overflowing and its contents spilling accross the floor. He reported the fault, but was told it couldn't be dealt with until late the following morning.

It is clear that the 'specialist'...

Spurious OPO Alarms

The tragic death of a Northern line driver highlights the important problem of spurious OPO alarms.

The OPO alarm is a crucial warning to the controller that something may have happened to a driver, but Northern line controllers receive so many spurious alarms that they are inevitably taken less...

Wot No Accident Book?

In depots, stations and offices across the Underground, managers are busily removing Accident Books. They reckon that recording staff accidents is adequately covered in the EIRF (Electronic Incident Reporting Form) system.

It's possible that EIRF meets the legal requirements for recording accidents...

Fire Safety (not)

Tim O'Toole had a lucky escape recently. He visited a certain building where the fire alarm was not working!

Although the fault had been discovered at the previous week's test, we hear that it had still not been fixed by the time of the next weekly test.

Time Of The Month

London Bridge station has discovered the depths to which the cleaning contracts allow us to sink. Enquiring as to why the sanitary products disposal unit had not been empty for a while, they were told that, according to the contract, it only has to emptied when it is full.

OK, stop and think about...

Walkway - Or Slipways?

The new sidings at White City are now in use. Shame about the walkways being dangerous. Oh, and as for the ready-to-start plungers ...

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