LT Health & safety

Health & safety issues on London's Transport

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'Maintenance optimisation'? Maintenance cuts, more like!

Management seem to think that checks on trains currently carried out every 14 days need only happen every 28 days. These checks are for stuff like brake block wear and cracks in brackets - problems which have caused lots of problems in the...

637 Assaults on Tube and DLR staff

One Tubeworker’s bedtime reading was the British Transport Police ‘Policing Plan for 2010/11’.

The report says that there were 637 assaults on staff on London Underground and the DLR last year. The report goes on to explain that 'The visible presence of rail staff, PCSOs and police officers can...

Drivers on SATS

LU bosses have reduced SATS duties in the new stations rosters. Drivers will be working from station to station with no station staff assisting at all. Add this to the attack on safety procedures, with LU proposing departing a station alone with no CCTV.

Both of these are a scary thought and an...

Arnos Drivers Refuse

Top marks from Tubeworker to Arnos Grove drivers, who refused to work on safety grounds during the Tube Lines strike in even greater numbers than at other depots.

Management were well and truly rattled, and tossed the rules out of the window in an unsuccessful attempt to bully drivers into taking...

No GLAP? No Gateline Work!

Staff on Wembley Central group stations are refusing to work on the gateline on safety grounds as management refuse to provide them with a place of safety.

Unlike other stations, the gatelines at these stations do not have a GLAP (GateLine Assistance Point), a box where you can take refuge if you...

DSMs: Penny Pinching or Desperate to Please?

DSMs desperate to justify their existence are devising schemes to save money for LU in these stringent times. But, fortunately, they are making a mockery of themselves and the whole process by taking it a bit far.

Has anyone noticed that first aid boxes on stations have been removed and replaced...

Keep Standing By

Bank staff were alarmed to find out that the Kone standby escalator engineer was to be removed from the station. With massive project work on ancient and fragile escalators, the station needs an engineer permanently available, not at the end of a lengthy phone line. But those who held the purse...

Wot No Coverage?

It seems that London Underground has put the word out round its managers that uncovered duties are to be left uncovered unless it is really really definitely crucial to the station's safety.

The thing is, management's definition of safety is rather different from workers' definition of safety. And...

Wot No Plunger?

London Underground's destructive urges continue unabated, with their latest effort - getting rid of emergency stop plungers on platforms.

They initially wanted drivers to operate them, so they could get away with having no station staff in the vicinity. Then drivers and union reps pointed out that...

Wot No Fire Cover?

Last month, there was water ingress at Paddington and the Fire Control Panel did not work. So had there been a fire, the system would not necessarily have kicked in to detect and suppress it. Not safe to open the station, then.

It seems though, that a senior manager arrived at the station and was...

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