Recommendation Date
Recipient Name
Tranz Rail
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Reinforce the training and increase the compliance monitoring of remote control operators to ensure they are positioned and operate in such a manner that a combination of: range of vision normal operating distractions and shunting speed maintain an acceptable factor of safety with respect to possible collision.
Reply Text
Tranz Rail has changed the Safety Observation Process specifying a minimum of three formal observations within a two year period at no more than eight month intervals. Training in the new procedures has been completed for Managers and implemented at Supervisory level. All instructions in the Rail Operating Code relating to the movement of shunts in Terminals are being reviewed as detailed in our response to Safety Recommendation 044/99 below.
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