{"id":298943,"date":"2017-03-14T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T08:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/striking-uk-rail-conductors-explain-their-struggle-for-public-safety\/"},"modified":"2017-03-14T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T08:24:07","slug":"striking-uk-rail-conductors-explain-their-struggle-for-public-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/striking-uk-rail-conductors-explain-their-struggle-for-public-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking UK rail conductors explain their struggle for public safety"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThis is about the public and their safety\u201d<\/h4>\n

Striking UK rail conductors explain their struggle for public safety<\/h2>\n

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14 March 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n

Sheffield<\/strong><\/p>\n

At Sheffield station\u2019s Arriva North depot, three pickets manned a stall.<\/p>\n

Dave, Mark and Joe at Sheffield’s Northern Arriva depot<\/span><\/div>\n

Joe, who was previously a ticket officer, explained the safety role of conductors: \u201cIn case of emergency you\u2019ve got two safety-critical staff on board trains in the Arriva North franchise. Under the new proposals that\u2019s going down to one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The drivers would have sole responsibility for the platform-train interface, including emergency evacuations and assisting the disabled. \u201cA lot of the stations we call at are unmanned, so there\u2019s no staff to help people get on and off. If they\u2019re going to be running trains without us, who\u2019s going to be helping these people?\u201d<\/p>\n

In his experience, \u201ceven at manned stations, you don\u2019t always have time with all your other duties, so it helps to have a conductor there to help people on and off. The way it\u2019s portrayed in the media, it\u2019s just about who\u2019s going to open and close the doors. But we fulfil a safety-critical role and all of a sudden the safety rule book is being thrown out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark, the depot\u2019s health and safety rep, said conductors dealt with a range of incidents, \u201cIt\u2019s evacuations, fires on trains–we\u2019ve had that recently. There\u2019s three types of evacuations, but emergency evacuations\u2014in the event of a collision or endangerment to life–are the most important. You\u2019ve got to get passengers off as quickly as possible in the safest possible way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark and Joe explained that in train collisions, where the driver may be critically injured or killed, the safety of hundreds of passengers would rest on the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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