LT Health & safety

Health & safety issues on London's Transport

A Slap in the Face for Safety

LUL must have temporarily forgotten its commitment to a world-class customer service as it hospitalised two of its 'customers' by allowing them to be whacked round the face by an inter-car barrier at Mile End.

The real scandal of this incident was that the barrier was reported loose a few...

We Won't Be Silenced on Safety

When local management left both CSA and SAMF duties uncovered at South Woodford, the Station Supervisor had an evening full of grief as he had to deal with everything alone and passengers vented their frustration about the closed ticket office and lack of help available.

So quite rightly, he...

Call Centre Staff Fear for Safety

As one of the Pier Walk (North Greenwich) brigade, I think that Jubilee Line weekend engineering work has become a safety issue.

Although those of us who work nights leave together and get on the buses together, we are often met by a host of angry people who have had a night out at the Dome and had...

Jubilee Line Trial Safety Farce

Jubilee line drivers are rapidly coming to the conclusion that TBTC stand for Too Botched To Consider.

The list of safety concerns about the trial operations include: non-approved signalling signage is not approved, poor staff training, service control being unprepared, and service control centre...

Phew, Wot a Scorcher!

Wembley Park drivers are unimpressed with management's apparent inability to ventilate the depot properly.

Everyone is supposed to cheer up with a bit of summer heat comes our way, but it's far from cheerful if you have to have your grub at Wembley Park. It would be about as comfortable to have it...

Management Leave Section 12 Station without Supervisor

A shocking incident on the Victoria line on 10 August shows just how reckless management are getting with our and our passengers' safety.

After a report of a loud banging noise between Tottenham Hale and Blackhorse Road northbound, the controller asked the Tottenham Hale Station Supervisor to ride...

Will LUL Management Help Transmit Swine Flu?

Swine flu has hit London Underground staff, but there is still no clear statement from management that absences will not count as an item under the Attendance policy.

The potential consequences of this are frightening. Under the regime of fear created by the Attendance policy, staff could be so...

Ready, Steady, ... Detrain!

Managers at Woodford have got it into their heads that station staff should detrain the reversers in sixty seconds! Maybe they are limbering us up for the Olympics. Or they are taking the employers' raison d'etre of making us work ever harder and faster to the extreme.

Our fearless managers were...

Phew, Wot a Scorcher

Of late, a few sweltering days have made the wearing of ties very uncomfortable for station staff amongst others. Tubeworker reckons that if it you can't wear it comfortably, then take it off.

So how does London Underground deal with this? Generally, NOC issues a Hot Weather declaration, announcing...

CBS Outdoor Demand Safe Equipment for their Job

CBS Outdoor workers, who put posters up on the Tube, are being made to use a tool to smooth the posters out, which puts a lot of pressure on their hands and is causing them damage. The company recognise this, and has ordered some replacements from the USA. But as they say, the USA seems like a...

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