Recommendation Date
Recipient Name
LTSA
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[the LTSA, MSA and OSH] Liaise as necessary to bring the problem of substandard connections between stacked bases to the attention of safety agencies in other countries where it is considered the use of dissimilar interlocking systems could result in similar substandard practices.
Reply Text
As previously advised, Land Transport Safety Authority (LTSA) considers your recommendation (017/98) regarding contacting "safety agencies in other countries" would be more appropriately directed to the Ministry of Transport. This Authority has now discussed this recommendation with the Ministry of Transport and, as a result of these discussions, LTSA will contact our counterparts in the UK, USA and Canada. As requested the formal LTSA response for recommendation 017/98 is:
• LTSA will adopt this safety recommendation.
• LTSA will now contact the LTSA counterparts in the UK, USA and Canada.
• LTSA will adopt this safety recommendation.
• LTSA will now contact the LTSA counterparts in the UK, USA and Canada.
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