Rail: Operations
The concern related to an occasion when a suspicious substance was located in a driver’s compartment and the driver was not removed from his position immediately to ensure that the public were not put at risk.
The route qualification of contract drivers.
The concern related to the lack of direction given to passengers when trains were delayed across the operator's network.
The concern related to procedure for the shunting of cars across two roads not being followed correctly which means that when the driver is obscured and safe worker providing guidance is also obscured.
The concern related to inaccurate responses the operator had provided to the ATSB in relation to a number of safety issues which had been identified during an ATSB rail investigation.
The concern related to passenger carriages which had been reconfigured for a trial period, but the reconfiguration had not been done in accordance with the risk assessment which had been submitted to the regulator.
The concern related to the degrading of safety standards within the operation over the last four years and the oversight of the regulator in-to the investigation of incidents within the operator's network.
