Re: Driver Fatigue/ safety system failure
Nic Doncaster (nldoncas@cobweb.com.au)
30 Apr 1998 13:20:50 GMT
David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> writes:
> Maurie Daly wrote:
>
> > No safeworking system is perfect.
> > All that you can expect or hope for is that the safeworking system will
> > endeavour to ideally prevent or at best minimise accidents in the event that
> > the driver does what all human beings do at some time or other , makes a
> > mistake.
>
> When you look at reports on accidents, there is usually a number of
contributing
> factors. It is very rarely just one thing.
>
> --
> David Johnson
> CityRail Guard
> trainman@ozemail.com.au
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
>
Given that most safe working systems have been designed around known or
previously occouring incidences (particularly, for example, train order
working), it is little wonder that they may fail from time to time.
Throw ins "human error", and the odds are against the system.
>