Recommendation Date
Recipient Name
Watercare Services
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Take immediate steps to improve the safety of the passengers by installing a suitable barrier and door arrangement, with child resistant locking devices fitted to any moveable components, at such a height along the open side of each passenger carriage to minimise the risk of children falling from the carriage.
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Watercare has already decided to take steps to further improve the safety of the Rain Forest Express. It is placing a barrier arrangement on the open side of the carriages, so that children standing on the seats cannot fall out. The top of the vinyl doors to the carriages is to have a stiffening aluminium rod placed in it.
As for your recommendation on child resistant locking devices is concerned, any locking device on the door needs to be simple enough to allow urgent egress from the train whilst it is in a tunnel, should any emergency occur. Rather than having a childproof locking device, Watercare proposes to install switching equipment on the door locks so that if the door lock is lifted or tampered with in any way, the train immediately comes to a halt.
Watercare is firmly of the view that the further safety enhancements to the Rain Forest Express identified above are well in excess of those recommended in your letter.
As for your recommendation on child resistant locking devices is concerned, any locking device on the door needs to be simple enough to allow urgent egress from the train whilst it is in a tunnel, should any emergency occur. Rather than having a childproof locking device, Watercare proposes to install switching equipment on the door locks so that if the door lock is lifted or tampered with in any way, the train immediately comes to a halt.
Watercare is firmly of the view that the further safety enhancements to the Rain Forest Express identified above are well in excess of those recommended in your letter.
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