davidwoodcock wrote:Give someone a boring job and there will be a natural tendency for them to seek ways of alleviating that boredom.
Modern technology in a general sense presents as many problems in the workplace as alcohol or drugs, as research into the effects of using a mobile phone while driving on a road has shown, and yet the problem doesn't seem to be actively addressed, (it is, for example, illegal to use a hands-on mobile phone while driving in the UK yet the practice remains commonplace and the number of prosecutions minuscule).
It will be interesting to see what the response of the UK rail industry is - or are UK signallers already banned from possessing smartphones in the workplace?
scarpa wrote:The signalman involved in the collision on the single line in Germany has been given a 3 years prison sentence.
Trapped in the Game
Which seems incredibly lenient
...proceed with max. 100 Km/h and on sight
The German substitution signal Zs 1 is not a Pass on Sight aspect. The signification of Zs 1, three small white lights in the shape of an ‘A’
the Zs 7 Vorsichtsignal (Caution signal), which consists of three small yellow lights in the shape on a ‘V’,
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