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Do you have a dangerous job and if so do you take things for granted or are a bit casual safety wise
A Network Rail safety video which is suitably realistic unlike the old ones, makes me think so does it’s job eh
It’s worth putting it on pause and letting it load if it keeps stopping when playing it.. heed the warning at the beginning
Just watched it, he got hit by the train, thats gonna hurt tomorrow.
Surely when you are doing that job, it pays to be constantly aware, to be cautious.
Yeah it does but it doesnt always happen. Not trying to be dramatic but a loss of concentration could have killed me was blind luck really i didnt return to the bit of track we were working on the same route i left.
@pete wrote:
Yeah it does but it doesnt always happen. Not trying to be dramatic but a loss of concentration could have killed me was blind luck really i didnt return to the bit of track we were working on the same route i left.
I’ve never worked on the Railways, although i know someone who do, it’s good money.. Even though it pays to be cautious, i suppose it’s easy to lose a bit of concentration.
Once worked for Railtrack on a few of the stations and found the safety procedures quite strict.We thought it a bit of a laugh having to use heavy wooden ladders instead of lightweight aluminium ones,well we found it funny until they showed us film footage of what would happen to us if we touched the overhead power lines with metal ladders,not a pretty sight :-… ,they also told us to report anything that we considered a danger and they always made it safe more or less as quickly as humanly possible,but i can see how some peeps get over confident with certain jobs and so these shocking films are a good thing.
I sat next to an old guy on the train once, it was a long journey and we got chatting. As we passed a work crew at the side of the line he went white and tensed up. He went on to tell me about his time as a train driver, the deaths, some from work crews, some suicides, and how much every death affected him until his nerves were shot to pieces and he had to give up the job he loved. It’s not just the person who gets hit, it’s the train driver, the witnesses, it ripples through so many lives…..
The sad fact is that when you do a job day in and day out you can get a bit blase, so films like this serve a purpose.
Made me sit up and take note trouble is you slip back to bad ways pretty quickly
Being Pete’s Catamite. That’s a Dangerous Job! It’s torture i tell ya.. And it aint even fekking Minimum Wage..
Sorry Sir. Shall i make your tea now sir?
yes
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